React Summit 2026

Kitze loves to rant about webdev. He is the founder Sizzy - the browser for developers. He created React Academy to teach web development. He's the creator of Zero To Shipped - the interactive video course for mastering Fullstack Development. He's documenting his journey on YouTube, steams on Twitch and has a blog that he maintains one in a blue moon. He made Benji, Twizzy, ok-google.io, JSUI, Glink, showGPT and etc.

I own and make video tutorials teaching web development for Level Up Tutorials, releasing a new premium series every month. I also co-host Syntax.fm with Wes Bos. Syntax is a popular, light hearted web development podcast that teaches full stack topics while staying fun. I enjoy breaking also known as breakdancing, and have been dancing for over 15 years doing shows for professional NFL and NBA teams. I'm inspired by a hot cup of green tea, excellent music, and Shaw Bros. kung fu movies.

Dominik is a Frontend Engineer, React-Query maintainer working at Sentry, who blogs about all things React and TypeScript (https://tkdodo.eu/blog/).

Seasoned software engineer, educator, and a GitHub star passionate about technical education. I enjoy making learning simple through hands-on teaching and a project-based approach. Five years ago, I started the JavaScript Mastery YouTube channel, which became one of the largest technical education YouTube channels for intermediate to advanced developers in the JavaScript ecosystem.

Sam Selikoff is a software engineer on the Next.js team at Vercel. Previously he taught frontend development for over eight years through his podcast, in-person trainings and conference talks, and videos on Egghead, YouTube, and Build UI. He's also a software consultant. Prior to working for himself, he was a frontend engineer at TED Conferences.

Daniel Ávila is a Chilean AI Software Engineer and open-source builder based in Grand Rapids, MI. He is the creator of Claude Code Templates (aitmpl.com), a component library for Claude Code with 111K+ npm downloads and 21K+ GitHub stars, featured in Anthropic's official documentation and part of the Claude Open Source Program. He is AI Tech Lead at Hedgineer, where he builds enterprise agentic systems for hedge funds in New York. Daniel has presented at major tech events across the US, Spain, Brazil, Peru, and South Korea.

Mark Erikson is a Senior Front-End Engineer at Replay, and lives in southwest Ohio, USA. Mark is a Redux maintainer, creator of Redux Toolkit, and general keeper of the Redux docs. He tweets at @acemarke, and blogs at https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com. He spends much of his time answering questions about React and Redux anywhere there's a comment box on the internet, and usually hangs out in the Reactiflux chat channels.

Santosh is a Principal Developer Advocate at CodeRabbit, a GDE for Angular, GitHub Star, Nx Champion and Microsoft MVP. He loves contributing to Angular and its ecosystem and loves monorepos.

As a Solutions Architect for the FireTV Appstore, I guide amazon's partners in developing and hosting applications tailored for FireTV. I work collaboratively with engineering, product, marketing, and business teams—both within Amazon and across amazon's partner organizations—to drive innovation and success.

Mikkel is a programmer and app builder who stumbled into p2p and was excited to find that everything was suddenly possible

CTO at Callstack. Passionate about cross-platform technologies. When not working, you can find him on a race track.

Kadi is a Software Developer at Expo, working on tools and experiences to help developers get the best out of building React Native apps with Expo. She is also an enthusiastic teacher, and has created React Native courses for Frontend Masters and Egghead.

Alex is a full-stack software engineer, founder with a successful exit, and Tech Education Lead at BitterBrains.

American expat living in Spain, author of Redux Form, Final Form, and currently building the best CRM in the world at Attio.

David is a design engineer and creator of React Bits, building animated, highly customizable React components and contributing actively to open source tools that help developers build faster and more creatively.

Aurora Scharff is a DX Engineer at Vercel and the React Certification Lead at certificates.dev. She specializes in education and community engagement around React and Next.js, developing high-quality learning resources, creating demo applications, and speaking at conferences worldwide to support and advance modern web development practices.

Jo is a Software Engineer and Developer Advocate at PayPal. She is passionate about improving developer experience, advocating for TypeScript and teaching good use of the web. She mentors junior developers, advocates a lot for mental health awareness and is devoted to improving the diversity and inclusivity of the tech industry.

Younes Jaaidi is a Software Cook who enjoys whipping code until tests pass. Raised in the eXtreme Programming kitchen some 20 years, he now teaches and coaches teams — perhaps yours next — to cook better software using ingredients such as Test-Driven Development, Charted Coding, and Collective Ownership. He's also an Angular Google Developer Expert, an Nx Champion, and a mediocre sailor. His favorite spice: sleep 300 && git reset --hard

Manuel is a full-stack software engineer and TypeScript specialist, and a core contributor to TanStack Router and TanStack Start.

Staff software engineer and technical author with 5+ published books. Since 2017, he’s written extensively about software and product development, with his work reaching 5M+ readers. He specialises in turning complex problems into simple, reliable systems and building delightful user interfaces that hold up in the real world.

Krasimir Tsonev is a coder with over 20 years of experience in web development. Author of books on JavaScript he works at Antidote.me where he helps people reaching clinical trials. Loves React and its ecosystem.

Jemima Abu is a self-taught front-end developer, Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, and Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies. She is passionate about diversity in technology and accessibility in web development.

Ayodele is a Developer Relations engineer and a solution architect. Ayodele is passionate about developer education and product adoption. He's passionate about learning, building, and teaching web technologies, and tools that can help developers succeed in their role.

Kevin Ball is VP of engineering at Mento, focused on helping modern workers grow in their careers via a unique combination of coaching and mentorship. He is also a trained coach who works with engineers and engineering managers, a panelist on the JSParty podcast, and publishes Human Skills, a series of weekly interviews of tech industry leaders on all of the non-technical skills that go into success in the tech industry. Kevin is an experienced engineer, manager, and entrepreneur who has co-founded and acted as CTO for 2 companies, founded the San Diego Javascript Meetup, and has written articles for publications including Smashing Magazine, web designer magazine, Net magazine, and LeadDev. He has spoken around the world including conferences like All Things Open, Web Unleashed, NodeConf Colombia, and React Amsterdam.

In 2013, I graduated with a BFA and took my first job as a Junior Graphic Designer at a small, boutique ad agency. While there, my Creative Director warned me to never let anyone find out I could code, because if I did I'd be stuck doing it forever. I ignored his warning; it turns out he was completely right, but I've never been happier. I currently work as a developer advocate on a wonderful team where I help people build web applications in React, design and maintain their UI component libraries, and desperately attempt to stop back-end devs from writing any more CSS.

Freelance Frontend Architect | Helping You Build Scalable, AI-Ready, Frontend Architecture. Digital nomad from Spain. As a Freelance Frontend Architect, I design and build robust, maintainable applications using React, Angular and Vue—with a strong focus on architecture, testing, and software craftsmanship. I specialize in DDD, Hexagonal Architecture, and Modular Design Systems. International speaker and Codemotion committee member and ambassador, and a published book author, I’m passionate about empowering teams and sharing knowledge through talks, workshops, and open-source contributions. For me, code is not just a tool—it’s a craft.

Stephen is the Team Lead for AG Grid and loves sharing practical, experience-based tips, tricks, and case studies from years in the codebase. He's gone deep into grid performance and framework integrations, and has spent more time than he'd like profiling render cycles. Outside of work, life revolves around family, four kids and two dogs, and he's happiest when the whole crew is out together exploring in the park.

Trust Jamin Okpukoro is a developer advocate and senior technical writer with a strong background in software engineering, community building, video creation, and public speaking. Over the past few years, he has consistently enhanced developer experiences across various developer products by creating impactful technical content and leading strategic initiatives. His work has helped increase product awareness, drive user engagement, boost sales, and position companies as thought leaders within their industries.

Maurice de Beijer is an independent software consultant and trainer. He specializes in TypeScript, ECMAScript, React and Svelte. His work includes popular collaboration software as well as a large, global, safety application for the oil and gas industry. He has a preference for working with startups and smaller, more dynamic companies. Maurice is also active in the open source community. He teaches ECMAScript, TypeScript, React, Cypress, Playwright and RxJS courses. Since 2005, he has received Microsoft’s Yearly Most Valuable Professional Award. Further, Maurice is active in the Dutch dotNed user group and helps organize its meetings.

Abbey Perini is many things - a metro Atlanta native, person of many hobbies, full-stack web developer, accessibility advocate, international speaker, and technical writer with ✨over 500,000 views.✨ She's full-stack in the truest sense - give her a problem and she'll figure it out. She's happiest problem solving in the front-end, back-end, and all the APIs and microservices in between. Passionate about accessibility, she's worked in Vue, React, and even AngularJS (2013). She's spent her development career rectifying tech debt in existing codebases.

Fred is a passionate and (very 😅) opinionated builder. He's been in the infrastructure space, and in particular in serverless technologies back when they were new-age. He built Lift, to help people ship piece of infrastructure without previous knowledge, and then built Revant to help those same people reduce their newly generated infra cost... He's also been part of the AWS community builder team for 5 years. He's now building with Alpic the missing infrastructure layer for the new agentic internet where AI consume services instead of human. He's working full time on Skybridge, a new open-source framework to build ChatGPT and MCP Apps.

Senior Web Developer & Engineering Manager based in Berlin with over 12 years of hands-on experience. I’m passionate about teaching and sharing knowledge—producing video tutorials and leading code courses at top programming schools. In my free time, I give back to the open-source community by maintaining projects like redux-offline, dracula-ui and clipboard.js,

I build engineering teams and frontend systems that scale - spent years doing it at some of India's most demanding product companies. Currently heading frontend engineering at Simbian AI, where I'm building the UI layer for security infrastructure designed for the agentic era. That means shipping fast, maintaining zero tolerance for performance debt, and making complex security workflows feel intuitive, all at the same time. I led the full migration from Django to React, cut load times by 83%, and introduced AI-native development workflows across the engineering team. Before Simbian, I led web engineering at CRED, owning frontend delivery across multiple pods, scaling CRED Garage from 2M to 10M+ customers, and building platform systems that other teams depended on. I'm as invested in the team as I am in the code. I mentor engineers toward ownership, not just task completion. I've created courses, spoken at conferences, and consistently tried to give back to the community that shaped me. What drives me: systems that last, teams that own their work, and products that actually solve hard problems.

Kiril Peyanski is a Principal Software Engineer focused on the intersection of design systems, user experience, and AI-assisted interface design. He explores how both humans and LLMs can shape the next generation of front-end architecture.

Seungho is a Research Fellow at LG Electronics, leading Web Engine and Web Framework development. He is the organization owner and maintainer of Enact (https://github.com/enactjs), a React-based framework optimized for embedded devices. Currently, he focuses on building scalable, cross-platform UI architectures and AI-powered web platforms for next-generation consumer electronics.

Principal Frontend Engineer at Zattoo | React Berlin Meetup Organizer | Crafting symbols for over a decade 👨‍💻✨

Passionate Code Wizard at ING 🦁 | AI & JavaScript Enthusiast 😍 | Lifelong Learner 🌀 | Public Speaker 😊 | Family Lover 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Faris Aziz is a Staff Frontend Engineer specializing in React, Next.js, monetization systems, and resilient web architecture. He's led teams in early-stage startups and scaling companies, built career ladders from scratch, and shipped systems used by millions. His work spans greenfield builds and legacy refactors across Fintech, SaaS, Fitness, and Connected TV, with companies like Smallpdf, Fiit, Discovery, GCN, and Navro. He focuses on building performant, user-centric applications with solid observability and maintainability. Faris co-organizes ZurichJS, contributes to tools like Raycast, and spends time contemplating life's great questions, like why the build works on his machine but nowhere else.

Tech Lead • Front-End Advocate • Mentor & Educator • Tech Blogger • Published Author • 100+ IT Certifications • 30K+ Followers • Docker Captain • Cursor Ambassador • Expert in React.js, Next.js, Angular, DevOps, Web Accessibility & Security Kristiyan Velkov is a seasoned software developer and technical leader with more than 10 + years of expertise in JavaScript and open-source development. His comprehensive skill set includes: JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Angular, Vue.js, Next.js,DevOps,Web accessibility,Security and DevOps. A lifelong learner, Kristiyan has earned over 100 IT certifications. With experience at some of the world’s leading IT organizations, Kristiyan thrives as a technical lead, driving innovative projects and mentoring teams to achieve growth and excellence. His thought leadership has garnered a significant following: - 30,000 LinkedIn connections - 7,000 Medium subscribers - 100,000+ monthly readers - 4 IT books.

With a passion for creating seamless cross-platform experiences, my journey in tech started not with programming, but as a consultant in the tech industry. The desire to build and innovate led to a shift in focus towards software development, particularly mobile app development, where the thrill of solving complex problems and crafting user-friendly applications became a calling. Co-founding Frontend Queens was a natural extension of this journey, inspired by a commitment to inclusivity in tech. This community was born from the belief that everyone, especially women, should have the opportunity to thrive in technology. By fostering a supportive environment, we aim to empower women to break barriers and pursue fulfilling careers in this ever-evolving field.

Senior Developer from Germany with over 15 years of experience building web apps and leading frontend teams, currently living and working down under in Australia. Pragmatic perfectionist, always looking for opportunities to learn and grow.

Ameer is a Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience. Behind the keyboard he is passionate about developer experience, design systems, React, and building cool stuff. AFK he loves to bake and pick up heavy circles.

Angel Pichardo is a Senior Developer Advocate at ImageKit with 10+ years of engineering experience and a background in developer education. He builds at the intersection of AI agents and developer tooling, and his talks are known for making complex workflows click through live demos that start with the problem and work backward to the fix.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Hinge Health, I contribute to developing patient-centered digital musculoskeletal solutions by leveraging expertise in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology and cross-platform mobile development. My work supports the integration of advanced wearable technology with clinical care teams, enhancing accessibility and outcomes for millions of users. With over three years of experience at Hinge Health, I specialize in crafting scalable, user-friendly mobile applications using React Native. My mission is to empower healthcare innovation and improve patient experiences through technology. By collaborating across teams, I help deliver impactful solutions that align with the organization's goal of reducing pain and improving lives.

Vishnu is a builder, speaker, and problem-solver passionate about crafting scalable systems and meaningful digital experiences. He has helped startups grow from India's startup corridors to Silicon Valley, building the kind of web platforms that move fast without breaking purpose. Deeply rooted in the React ecosystem, he champions clean architecture, great UX, and the power of simplicity in modern software.

Raju Dandigam is an Engineering Manager and Staff Engineer with over 15 years of experience in web and frontend engineering, scalable application architecture, and AI-powered product development. He currently works at Navan, where he leads and builds large-scale web platforms used by millions of users. Raju is an active conference speaker, published technical author, and community contributor. He has spoken at international JavaScript and testing conferences, serves as a judge for global hackathons and industry awards, reviews technical books and papers, and mentors developers worldwide. He is also recognized as a Docker Captain and a Cypress Ambassador, reflecting his contributions to the developer and testing ecosystem. His interests include modern web architectures, frontend scalability, testing strategies, and practical applications of AI in software engineering.

Martin Mladenov is a Front-End Team Lead with more than 7 years in the management of FE teams. With a remarkable background in software development and a deep passion for WordPress, Martin is a true innovator in the tech space. His extensive experience includes leading projects that effectively bridge the gap between complex technology and user-friendly solutions. With a proven track record of leading international teams for prominent Bulgarian and UK-based companies, including GlobalData Plc and New Statesman Media Group. Currently driving the development of a next-generation gaming platform at Sesame Online, combining technical expertise and leadership to deliver innovative and scalable solutions.

Himanshu Srivastava is a software engineer working on production web applications using React, Next.js, and backend systems. His work focuses on frontend performance, developer experience, and building systems that remain maintainable as applications scale. He enjoys deeply understanding how frameworks behave beyond surface-level abstractions and sharing practical lessons learned from real-world development.

Developer specializing in building human-centered applications in healthcare. My experience spans from leading design direction for large medical sites serving over 40,000+ patients daily to creating full-stack applications that directly impact thousands of practitioners across the nation. Creating content around the intersection of technology and healthcare.

James is a full-stack developer with a passion for Open Source. He works on Firebase at Google where he helps with Developer Relations, documentation, workshops, and maintenance of the Firebase SDKs.

I’ve been building digital products since I was 14, driven by a deep curiosity to turn ideas into tools that solve real problems. One of my first personal projects was an AI tutor I built to prepare for Greece’s national exams. Using it daily helped me score in the top 0.1% nationwide without external instruction. I documented the journey in a YouTube video that’s now been viewed over 50,000 times. Over the past few years, I’ve contributed to open-source projects, shipped production-ready tools for startups, and participated in 10+ hackathons where I built functional apps in just days, earning several first-place finishes. I thrive in fast-paced, problem-solving environments and love creating technology that moves quickly from prototype to real-world use.

Alex is Partner Program Manager on the Microsoft Edge team and Blink API OWNER. Before joining Edge in 2021, he worked on Chrome’s Web Platform team for a dozen years where he helped design many new features. He served as overall Tech Lead for Chromium’s Project Fugu, lead Chrome’s Standards work, and acted as a platform strategist for the web. He also served as a member of ECMA TC39 for more than a decade and was elected to three terms on the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group. His technical projects have included Fugu, Progressive Web Apps, Service Workers, and Web Components, along with ES6 features like Classes and Promises. Previously he helped build Google Chrome Frame and led the Dojo Toolkit project. Alex plays for Team Web.

Michal Ziso is an Earth & Space architect and systems thinker focused on how humans operate inside complex, high-risk environments. Her work explores responsibility, leadership, and human performance in chaotic systems operating at the edge. She is the founder of theZISO Creative Disruption platform, where she leads design, research, and advisory work that bridges the inherited world and the emerging. She is a global speaker reaching over 200K humans on stages such as TEDx, NASA, Dubai Future Forum, YPO and more.

Gaauwe is a Frontend Engineer at Zed, where he builds the web experience around a code editor made for speed and AI collaboration. As one of the few TypeScript developers in a Rust shop, he holds down the frontend fort.

Shubham builds web and mobile experiences. Senior Software Engineer at Headout, diving into the rabbit holes of frontend architecture and performance optimization. Also tinkering with developer tooling, because someone needs to make the developer experience less... developer-y. Lives in Bangalore.

Senior Full Stack Engineer @Factify With a great passion for designing for scale, understanding how things work and public speaking. I enjoy building systems that are both elegant and performant. When I'm not behind a keyboard, I'm probably surfing or playing guitar.

Ryan has been building for the web for 25 years. He created rari, a React Server Components framework running on a Rust runtime that delivers 46.5x higher throughput and 9.1x faster response times than Next.js. He believes performance shouldn't be an afterthought and that the web deserves frameworks that are both fast and beautiful to work with.

Rachel Kaufman is a full-stack software engineer working in the martech space. She loves writing unit tests (seriously), strongly-typed languages, and the Oxford comma. She’s also a lead organizer with Women and Gender eXpansive Coders DC, a group for women and nonbinary people in tech in the Washington, DC area.

Alem Tuzlak is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Founder of Code Forge. He builds open-source tooling and products in the TanStack ecosystem and React Router/Remix, and is known for creating developer-focused libraries and devtools that help teams build, debug, and ship faster. He is best known for his work on TanStack AI & TanStack Devtools. Alongside his engineering work, Alem teaches and shares practical insights through workshops, writing, YouTube and community work.

Aleksei Petrov is a CTO and the co-founder of QuantFlow Studio. Anthropic Claude Community Ambassador. Uses Claude Code daily to ship production software. Author of Pilot – a top rated open-source autonomous coding agent. Navigator, a Claude Code plugin for context engineering. Based in Podgorica, Montenegro.