React Summit 2022

Tanner Linsley is an entrepreneur and open source creator who loves React and JavaScript. He has built and still maintain several well-known open source libraries like React Query, React Table, React Virtual, React Form, React Charts, React Static, and even Chart.js He co-founded Nozzle.io 6 years ago and is currently helping it grow as VP of UI and UX. When not programming, Tanner spends his free time traveling, recording music, film-making, and vacationing with his wife and children.

Core Architecture@[REDACTED], ReactJS Advocate, Speaker, Producer, Synthwave Artist, Google Dev Expert.

Delba is interested in helping developers build great web applications. She’s a hobbyist videographer and Senior Developer Advocate at Vercel; where she creates educational content by combining her love for video and code.

Sara is a developer relations engineer at Orama. Author of The Opinionated Guide to React. Open Source enthusiast. Conference Speaker. Talk to her about Retro Games or Airports.

Tejas Kumar is an international keynote speaker, best selling author, and host of the developer-loved ConTejas Code podcast with an engineering background spanning 23 years, from design to frontend to backend to devops. Today, Tejas shares talks at large with developer communities worldwide, equipping them to do their best work.

Shruti Balasa is a full stack web developer and a Tech Educator from India. She likes to make web development simple for beginners through her courses, Youtube tutorials and eBooks. Her latest eBook [Complete Guide to CSS Flex & Grid](https://shrutibalasa.gumroad.com/l/css-flex-and-grid) has sold more than 1000 copies across 80 countries.

Anjana suffers from a chronic case of curiosity, which led her from philosophy to English teaching to computational linguistics to software development. As an internationally acclaimed public speaker & educator, her talks and courses on functional programming, JavaScript, and philosophical & linguistic perspectives on software engineering have reached millions of learners worldwide. These days she mostly codes & teaches from her dual home bases in the San Francisco Bay & Berlin, when not traveling (in a mask) to events around the world to speak about the joy of programming and advocate for a more equitable & ethical tech industry. Nerd out with her about programming paradigms, ask her about the Recurse Center & Outreachy, and definitely invite her to your karaoke party!

Krystal has been working with development for 12 years. During this time she's had the opportunity to work in a wide range of projects from web and mobile applications to games and virtual reality. Currently, she works as a Senior Frontend Developer on the Insights team at Shopify, creating delightful data viz components. She's also been a tech coach on Rails Girls and presented talks and workshops at events like VueConf, RubyConf, Laracon, and CodeTalks. You can find out more about she's done so far on her website: http://krystalcampioni.com

Talented engineer and entrepreneur, creator of beloved CodeSandbox.

Siddharth builds tools for developers. In the past, he worked on Design Systems at Auth0 and as the frontend architect at Practo. He loves talking about design, performance and open source.

Michael Chan loves the web. He's the host of React Podcast and DX Engineer at Chromatic. He’s building lunch.dev, the friendliest coding community for creative, curious, and compassionate web developers.

Swizec is a software engineer, author, and conference speaker. He's published books on modern web technologies, data visualization, and productivity, and has trained engineering teams at companies big and small. He’s on a mission to distill 20 years of tacit experience into actionable steps.

Coming from the middle of the alps in northern Italy, Juri has been working as a software architect at startups, government agencies and Fortune 500 companies. His happy place? Coding, developer tooling, creating tech videos and riding his OneWheel.

Rahat is a hip hop artist turned web developer, indie hacker, and web3 enthusiast. Rahat's passions include advocating for mental health in tech, music, gaming, and mentoring new developers especially in the web3 space.

Engineering Manager at Formidable, building things in JavaScript, particularly with React Native and GraphQL.

Liran Tal is a software developer, and a GitHub Star, world-recognized for his activism in open source communities and advancing web and Node.js security. He engages in security research through his work in the OpenJS Foundation and the Node.js ecosystem security working group, and further promotes open source supply chain security as an OWASP project lead. Liran is also a published author of Essential Node.js Security and O'Reilly's Serverless Security. At Snyk, he is leading the developer advocacy team and on a mission to empower developers with better dev-first security.

After writing his first line of JavaScript, it only took Houssein three short years to become an accomplished developer, author, speaker, and advocate. He is an engineer on the Chrome and Web team at Google working on improving the open-source framework ecosystem. Houssein has given talks on progressive enhancement and building for the mobile user at dozens of conferences and events worldwide.

Nicola Corti is a software engineer in the React Native Core team at Meta, where he helps to build one of the most popular cross-platform mobile framework. Nicola is also a Google Developer Expert for Kotlin, and he is the maintainer of several open-source libraries and tools for Android developers. His involvement in the ecosystem goes from speaking at international conferences to being a member of CFP committees, and supporting developer communities across Europe. In his free time, he loves running! Specifically, running a podcast (The Developers' Bakery - all about Open source) and running Marathons!

Co-founder of OramaSearch, the next-generation full-text search engine that runs at the edge! Also: TC39 Delegate, Google GDE, Microsoft MVP, Published Author, International Speaker.

Nadia is a Frontend Architect, experienced coder and tech blogger. She loves debugging mysterious bugs, solving hard problems with simple solutions and writing articles, that make complicated advanced concepts easy to understand. She managed to escape from locked down Australia in the middle of the global pandemic and now enjoys the life of a digital nomad all over the world.

Hi, I'm a tech lead at BAM where I've been developing React Native apps for 8 years. My obsession is mobile apps performance 🚀. I truly believe it's our responsibility to develop performant apps, as one way to fight against climate change!

Among the different things that Facundo enjoys, some of them are meeting and connecting with other people, web development, and talking a lot. After more than 12 years working as a developer, creating products and projects for different organizations and clients, he thought it would be great to combine those three interests in some way. In his search of ways to handle that, he discovered the world of Developer Relations. Nowadays, Facundo works as a DevRel Engineer at Storyblok, and he spends his time engaging with the dev community, speaking at events and conferences, creating and sharing content, writing articles for different websites and platforms, leading workshops, and talking (of course). He is one of the organizers of React Buenos Aires, the biggest React community in Argentina. He has been selected Prisma Ambassador, Auth0 Ambassador, and Cloudinary Media Developer Expert.

Solutions Architect, working with web development and cloud, in a news media outlet in Brazil with technologies such as TypeScript, NextJS, Node.js, GraphQL, AWS Amplify and the bazillion other AWS services.

Working in the Developer Experience team at Contentful, Harshil enjoys sharing his learnings with the community. A JavaScript developer, open-source contributor, and a low-code enthusiast, Harshil loves experimenting with tech and building fun projects.

Taz is the Founder of Guild and long time participant in communities around the world. He has over two decades of software experience ranging from video games & robotic AI to consumer application development, has served as a principal technical management consultant, and is a serial startup founder. When he's not behind his computer, he can be found chasing his cat around the house or being chased by cars around a race track.

By weekday, David is a RedwoodJS cofounder, GP at Preston-Werner Ventures, and developer in residence at 128 Collective, a climate philanthropy organization. At all other times, he is mostly “Dad”, often “husband”, and, when he can sneak away, enjoying the forest, ocean, and coffee shop near his home. He can be found in northern Northern California along the coast, gazing past his computer screen at the distant ocean (courtesy of the gratuitously oversized garage-office windows).

Liad is the Frontend Architect in Shopify, in charge of its client-side infrastructure, technologies, and performance. He is a web dev enthusiast for over a decade, juggling React, Webpack and Buzzwords@latest in order to always build the best user experience.

I'm a frontend developer at Octopus Energy. I come from a design background. UI/UX designer turned into an engineer, that's me.

With relentless positivity and genuine enthusiasm, Simeon is a Principal Educator at Sanity. He aims to bridge the gap between developers and content creators by presenting the benefits of and inspiring solutions with structured content.

Thomas Findlay is a 5 star rated mentor, full-stack developer, consultant, speaker, and technical writer. He is the author of "Vue - The Road To Enterprise" and "React - The Road To Enterprise" books and works with many different technologies such as JavaScript, Vue, Nuxt, React, Next, React Native, Node.js, Tailwind, Firebase, Python, and more. He has obtained MSc in Advanced Computer Science degree with Distinction at Exeter University, as well as First-Class BSc in Web Design & Development at Northumbria University. Over the years, Thomas has worked with many developers and teams from beginners to advanced and helped them build and scale their applications and products. He also mentored a lot of developers and students and helped them progress in their careers.

Matheus is a Sr. Front-End Engineer at Medallia, building their surveys platform and helping them shape the customer experience market with React, and a Google Developer Expert in Web Performance. His areas of interest include React and its ecosystem, JS and compile-to-JS languages, DX, and perceived performance optimization. Aside from public speaking about these, he also volunteers at TechLabs, teaching front-end development.

Software Engineer at Postman. I build scalable and reactive web apps with React and some caffeine! OSS contributor and maintainer @ OSSN Blogger @Medium Speaker

Vova is a product engineer at Framer, where he works on removing boundaries of what's possible to achieve with creative tools and enabling new ways of building products. He's passionate about native browser ESM, Import Maps and web3.

Lee (larowlan) has been a major contributor to Drupal (🙀) for over 12 years. Lee is a Drupal core Framework manager, member of the Drupal security team and is passionate about code quality. More recently he has turned his focus to JavaScript, most notably React, Gatsby and Next.js, with Drupal's move to being a headless-first CMS. Lee was one of the primary architects of Drupal's testing architecture and champions automated testing and build processes. Lee has worked on several of Australia's largest websites during his 9 years as a Senior Developer with one of Australia's most trusted agencies: PreviousNext.

Iris is a front end developer with a passion for user experience and design, currently building products at Spotify. She’s also engaged in the Swedish meetup scene where she co-organises a ReasonML meetup.

Architect and full stack developer, jack of all Typescript, Web3, .NET Core, Flutter, Kubernetes, Dev Ops, Networking, Monitoring, Analytics, Databases, APIs and all the things! Specializing in web3 content management and developer experiences.

Software Engineer and Tech Lead. Currently building a better micro-frontend platform at DAZN, mentoring and helping teams with tech initiatives, focusing on system architecture, monitoring and observability. I enjoy working with new technologies and scaling React apps and teams.

Johnny loves (board|electronic) games, programming with a lot of parentheses and cycling. After receiving his MSc from Oxford, a short stint in San Francisco, an even shorter in London, he ended up home near Frankfurt. He famously got fired from Twitter in 2022, worked as Staff Engineer for Sizzle.gg afterwards and is now building the editor at Synthesia.

Billy is an engineer at NewDay building React apps and component libraries. He's an advocate for accessibility, testing, and design systems. He also names all his libraries after vegetables, much to the confusion of his co-workers.

I'm a Frontend engineer in SoftServe and born cook in my former life. I love to learn something new and immediately put it into practice and share my experience with others. I'm a mentor at Kottans, give public speeches, participate as program committee in fwdays, translate programming books and maintain an insta magazine @twoLip about my travels and hobbies.

Hi! I'm Travis Waith-Mair. I am a senior front-end developer, the creator of the Bedrock Layout Primitives layout library, I am a course author at http://newline.co

Scott Gerlach is Co-founder and Chief Security Officer at StackHawk, a Denver-based startup focused on empowering engineers to easily identify and remediate security bugs. Scott brings over two decades of security and engineering experience to his current role, having served as CSO, CISO, and in other executive leadership functions at companies like SendGrid, Twilio, and GoDaddy. When he's not at work, you'll find Scott spending time with family, brewing beer, and playing guitar.

Cody is a software engineer consultant, developer relations engineer, and university instructor with a passion for learning and sharing technology. He teaches a university web development course and loves interacting with developers of all experience levels. He started speaking internationally in 2022 at React Summit and NodeConf EU as well as hosting some of the events connected to NodeConf EU. His current passion is building full-stack and decentralized applications using all OSS technologies.

Thomas is a cross-functional Software engineer with a focus on mobile and web applications. He currently works at Ionic as the Developer Experience Engineer on Capacitor. In his free time, he likes to compose music, create 3d art/animations, and participate in game dev jams.

Michele is an independent Full Stack developer who's been working with React Native since 2018. He rebuilt JustWatch's mobile apps, where he formerly led the TV apps team. He's been a member of the Program Committee for React Day Berlin since 2023.

A frontend developer in Toronto.

Niall Crosby is CEO and founder of AG Grid. Niall originally programmed AG Grid as a side project, creating an open-source JavaScript data grid in his spare time. Niall has developed AG Grid into a full-time business and market-leading enterprise data grid for Angular, React, Vue and JavaScript. Niall remains a hands-on programmer developing new features, and the AG Grid community edition remains open-source.

Tech lead and coach at Theodo UK. Passionate about improving developer experience and building web apps without frustrations (for both users and devs).

I am a seasoned developer and architect with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, specializing in high-scale frontend development. Over the past decade, my career has been focused on empowering various startups by enhancing their frontend capabilities, with a particular emphasis on React and Vue technologies. My professional journey includes significant contributions to companies like Cybereason, Slice, Plank, Axonius, and Lifion, across diverse locations such as Tel Aviv, New York, and Amsterdam. Additionally, I have shared my insights and experiences at prominent industry events, including speaking engagements at React Summit and other JavaScript conferences throughout Europe. Currently, I lead SquadX, a small but highly focused team of frontend specialists. Our mission is to assist startups in boosting their frontend operations to new heights of efficiency and effectiveness.

Principal Engineer and active open source contributor. From Minsk, but now based in London and work at DAZN. I like playing around with TS, React, Redux, MobX/MST, RxJS, WebGL, Serverless, Node, Functional Programming with a focus on performance, system architecture and team productivity.

Hi, I'm Nir 👋 Married to Efrat and father to Bar Or and Hadas. I live in Israel and built (awesome Pokemon) websites since I was a kid 😎 My professional journey started at Intel and went through blockchain startup. Today I run a consulting Frontend solutions company that focuses on Web 3.0. I'm totally in love 😍 with React, its ecosystem and community and happy to explore new solutions and share my knowledge with everyone 🙂

Wouter van den Broek is a independent consultant and engineer. He has build more than 200 apps, from Symbian to BlackBerry to iOS and Android and now on the endeavor with React Native. With all these years of experience in the mobile world with building mobile apps there is a lot of knowledge to be shared. Also loves new technology, software processes; how to figure those out and traveling and reading.

Nik Kalyani is the founder and CEO of Decentology, the company behind Hyperverse, the open, decentralized platform that makes it easy for web developers to build blockchain applications. He found his passion for crypto while tinkering with a Bitcoin mining rig in 2013 and has never looked back. As a serial entrepreneur, Kalyani previously co-founded DNN Software, a popular Open Source CMS in the Microsoft ecosystem (acquired in 2017). He has been recognized with Microsoft’s “Most Valuable Professional” award for 11 years for his community contributions.

Shem has more than a decade of experience in software engineering in various domains: client and server-side, real-time systems, big data, mobile, and web. Shem is passionate about building a culture of growth mindset and obsessed with making teams work better together. After several years as a senior IC in WeWork and Meta, Shem is now the CTO and Co-Founder of Wilco, a platform that empowers every developer, regardless of their background or skill level, to unlock their full potential.

Clifford works on internal products & infrastructure at LinkedIn. In the past he worked Growth & SEO for LinkedIn & built web experiences helping nonprofits at Salesforce.org. He's loves to share the joy of programming with others & is an advocate for a more diverse & equitable tech industry. Ask him about non-traditional pathways into tech(coding bootcamps, sabbaticals etc), interdisciplinary learning & personal knowledge management(BASB).

Vandana is a Security Relations Leader at Snyk with a current focus on DevSecOps. She has extensive experience in Application Security, Vulnerability Management, SOC, Infrastructure Security and Cloud Security. Vandana is a seasoned speaker and trainer. She presented at various public events ranging from Global OWASP AppSec events to BlackHat events, to regional events such as BSides events in India. She is on the OWASP Global Board of directors (Vice-Chair). She also works in various communities towards diversity initiatives such as InfosecGirls, InfosecKids and WoSec. She is a recipient of multiple awards and is listed as one of the top women leaders in technology and cybersecurity in India. She won the Indian Achievers’ Award for contributing to the community's enablement.

🚀 Developer Happiness Engineer

Nick is an empathetic community member, full-stack developer, and avid Disney parks & animation fan. When he’s not speaking at local meetups or contributing to embedded JS projects, you can probably find him at the nearest climbing gym. His mustache is a figment of your imagination.

Arseny helps client teams build dev processes and deliver web UIs as a Solution Architect at Rangle Amsterdam. Interested in that boring side effect of software development — generating product value — he's always happy to talk about team decision-making, cost-benefit analysis and metrics. Of the 10+ years in frontend development, he spent 1 year building experiments to increase a signup conversion rate by 5 percentage points.

Jeff is a Senior Developer Advocate at WP Engine, where he focuses on creating educational resources that blend JavaScript and WordPress. He’s been developing websites since 2011, and has worked for R1 universities, startups, agencies, and enterprises developing web applications. As a self taught developer, he taught himself to code because it seemed faster than counting the exclamation marks in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. News flash: it wasn’t, but in the 1855 version there are 1227.

Leonidas is a front-end developer adept on providing the technical foundation for unique creative concepts and user experiences. Currently working as chapter lead, leading the frontend chapter at Vodafone Greece.

Raman is a software developer at Shopify focusing on Frontend development. He is passionate about all things GraphQL and getting into their guts to understand why they do what they do. Having gone from fixing bugs on his first-ever teams GraphQL server to introducing it to his previous org he’s really trying to see it all, especially now at Shopify.

Lena is a Frontend Developer and Ex Lawyer, she has a passion for fashion trends, frontend technologies and Kyiv balconies. In the last few years she worked on Wix Groups - a social network for communities within Wix Sites. She joined Wix Bookings in Amsterdam to Democratize the way people book services online.

As a youngster, I had an early interest in computers. I quickly learned to disassemble and reassemble my family's Tandy 1000 without much effort. This passion only grew as I got older. In college, I became very interested in helping to bridge the growing digital divide and started a student organization, Tech Serv, at Drexel University. After college, I started my career as a data analyst but quickly found a career in Product Management. Here, I was able to combine my love for technology with my passion for improving the lives of others. Since that time, I've been a product manager in a variety of industries including MarTech and HealthTech. Now at Docker, I hope to continue on my journey by improving the lives of developers and helping solve their daily challenges.