React Summit US 2023

Kent C. Dodds is a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and he's actively involved in the open source community as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. He is the creator of EpicReact.Dev and TestingJavaScript.com. He's an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. He's also a Google Developer Expert. Kent is happily married and the father of four kids. He likes his family, code, JavaScript, and Remix.

Josh has spent the past few years focused on teaching developers how to do cool stuff on the web. Before that, he worked as a software engineer for organizations like Khan Academy, DigitalOcean, and Unsplash, and taught web development fundamentals at Concordia University, in partnership with Journey Education.

Swyx is passionate about Developer Tooling and Developer Communities. He is currently Editor of Latent.Space. Swyx is an author of the Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior developer careers. In his free time he teaches React, TypeScript, Storybook and Node.js CLI's at Egghead.io, and helps run the Svelte Society community of meetups.

Software Engineer at Vercel. He was part of the React core team for years at Meta prior to joining us about nine months ago and he will provide an interesting perspective as a web developer that has spent time at React and is now working on Next.js at Vercel.

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

Over the past two years, Saurav has been dedicated to fostering and growing a vibrant community of over 30,000 open-source developers. Saurav's expertise lies in running successful programs such as "Issues for First Timers," which has facilitated the onboarding of hundreds of new developers into the world of open source. With a strong online presence, Saurav has garnered a substantial following of over 40,000 on Twitter. He actively engages with the open-source community, sharing valuable insights, promoting collaboration, and advocating for the benefits of open-source software. Saurav's expertise in community management and his commitment to open-source development have earned him opportunities to speak at renowned conferences worldwide, including PyCon Ireland, PyCon Italy, FOSS Mumbai, OCD India, DevRel.com, and many more. As a speaker, Saurav brings a wealth of knowledge and experience, inspiring others to embrace open-source and contribute to its growth. Attendees can expect to gain valuable insights and practical strategies from Saurav's engaging and informative sessions, empowering them to navigate the open-source landscape and make a meaningful impact within their own communities.

Tom Preston-Werner is an inventor, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is currently building RedwoodJS, Preston-Werner Ventures (investing in open source, dev tools, climate tech, AI), and 128 Collective (a climate think tank working on the just transition to 1.5 degrees). Tom also cofounded and was CEO of GitHub, and created Jekyll, SemVer, and TOML. He currently sits on the boards of Gitpod, Netlify, Mote Hydrogen, and Hack Club. Tom enjoys running, mountain biking, snowboarding, flying helicopters, baking sourdough, and eating tater tots.

Rachel Nabors has spearheaded developer education at FAANG companies like Amazon and startups like Clerk and participated in web standards and open source with Mozilla, the W3C, and Microsoft. They have built award-winning dev portals for React and React Native with the core teams at Meta. They are currently roaming the world, working on opensource projects that teach the world to code from their home base in London.

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.

Ben is a full-stack developer, open source maintainer, and whiteboardist making the web a little better. You'll find him hacking on Astro.build or sharing bite-sized learnings on wtw.dev.

Medhat is a Senior Software Engineer at Miro and a Google Developer Expert in Web Performance with extended experience in several web technologies, through his writings on his blog, online video courses, and talks he likes to share learnings, tips to write cleaner/reusable code, and useful DevTools, also he likes to speak about web performance and how to ship a fast and accessible web application to everyone

Jesse Hall, aka @codeSTACKr, is an accomplished full-stack developer with a dedication to teaching others about web development. By leveraging his self-taught experience, he creates engaging and informative content through articles, videos, live streaming, and interactive presentations. His areas of focus include JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and MongoDB. In his pursuit of knowledge sharing, Jesse continually updates his skills and techniques to provide cutting-edge insights and tutorials for web developers of all levels.

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.

Aiden Bai is a frontend performance engineer with a passion for efficient developer tools. He's the creator of Million.js and is the resident performance nerd at Dimension.

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.

Nitya Narasimhan is a PhD and Polyglot with 20+ years of software research & development experience. She is a visual storyteller and developer advocate at Microsoft, where she builds code and content to empower JavaScript developers do more with Cloud + AI.

Tony is a bestselling Udemy and Pluralsight author, known for his online courses such as "JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts", in which he focuses on teaching web and computer science fundamentals. He has spent 25 years as a web application developer, database architect, and UX designer and continues to focus on creating a usable and accessible web. He holds a BS in computer science from Case Western Reserve University.

Hi, I’m Josh! I’m an independent full time open source developer. I work on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem, most notably typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. I’m also the author of the O’Reilly Learning TypeScript book, a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, and an active conference speaker. My personal projects range from static analysis to meta-languages to recreating retro games in the browser. Also cats.

Henri is a developer who has turned his interests to a passionate mix of site performance engineering with pinches of user experience. That, combined with his leadership of the Toronto Web Performance meetup, JAMstack Toronto meetup and curating conference content, has led to COMMAND-H — a small org in support of all his passions: people and developers. When not reading the deluge of daily research docs and case studies, streaming, or profiling sites in his favourite tool, Henri is focusing on running the fastest 5k possible (surprise surprise), encouraging a healthy lifestyle and sharing it all via #devsWhoRun.

Ivan is a: • Google Developer Expert • Sr Web Performance Engineer at Framer • Prev. web perf consultant (Google, Toggl, Appsmith, etc.) Outside of work, Ivan enjoys exploring modern art, discovering lesser-known electronic and techno artists, and obsessing over serif typefaces.

Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development. He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and has also been a MLH Fellow. He is actively involved in community work as well. He is a TensorflowJS SIG member, Mentor in OpenMined and CNCF Service Mesh Community, SODA Foundation and has given talks at various conferences like Github Satellite, Voice Global, Fossasia Tech Summit, TensorflowJS Show & Tell.

Sidney is a Software Engineer and educator based in Atlanta, GA, US. She always aims to keep people laughing and learning something while navigating the tech industry. Her work includes finding compassion and play as she shares how she navigates her tech career on her YouTube channel and co-hosts the Deeper Than Tech Podcast.

Chris is a Twitch streamer and YouTuber that just loves to build things. As a self-preofessed programming language polyglot, you can watch him bring ideas from thought to reality in languages such as JS/TS, Rust, Elixir, Go, and more. If it is winter time, he would probably rather be snowboarding.

Cecelia Martinez is a Developer Advocate for Appflow at Ionic, a company that helps web developers build cross-platform applications using modern technology. She is dedicated to creating better, more inclusive developer experiences for all. Previous companies include Cypress and Replay, with areas of expertise including web & mobile development, testing, developer tools, and open source. She is a Lead Volunteer with Women Who Code FrontEnd, Chapter Head of Out in Tech Atlanta, and a GitHub Star.

Maxi is a full-stack software engineer with a passion for creating delightful user experiences. He works at Help Scout as a Staff Frontend Engineer, specializing in frontend architecture, web performance, and third-party application development. Originally from Buenos Aires, Maxi now lives in Los Angeles, CA with his wife, two daughters, and two dogs.

Bryan Hughes is a staff frontend engineer at Patreon, long-time member of the Node.js and NodeBots communities, and tech activist. Bryan is the creator of Raspi IO which provides Raspberry Pi support for the Johnny-Five JavaScript robotics library. Bryan also created RVL, a distributed wireless LED lighting system designed for festivals, Reduxology, a library that makes React+Redux easier to use, and Aquarium Control, a Raspberry Pi based system for controlling lights and monitoring temperature of his aquarium. Outside of tech, Bryan is an active member of the LGTBQ community, a photographer, pianist, and a wine aficionado.

Matt Carroll works as a developer advocate on the React team at Meta. He is currently focused on collaborations with the community and server components. Before Meta, Matt worked in developer relations at Google.

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.

Kathleen is a software engineer, designer, and conference speaker, who has deep industry experience that fuels her passion for making apps beautifully accessible. She’s a Color Module Specification Editor for the W3C Design Tokens Community Group. She is the Creative Director for the CXsisters network in her spare time and the best lanterne rouge cyclocrosser you’ll ever meet.

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.

Alexandra Spalato is a DevRel Engineer at Storyblok. She specializes in JAMstack and headless architecture and helps developers bring their visions to life. With her diverse background as freelancer and entrepreneur, Alexandra offers a fresh perspective on building successful web projects. She is always seeking new ways to innovate and drive tech progress, whether by speaking at conferences or empowering developers.

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).

Brittany Joiner is a marketer turned developer that now brings her skills together as Head of Developer Relations at PixieBrix! She loves building automations, tools, and toys, and she's super passionate about helping folks transition to tech careers. You'll find her traveling the world, reading by the pool, or checking out the farmers market with her girlfriend and pup.

Lucky is a Software Engineer at BBD with experience in building enterprise software solutions in the banking, Insurance, entertainment, education, and telecommunications sectors.

Robert is a staff software engineer at Pinterest.

Stephen is a Senior Developer at AG Grid. An active blogger writing about web tech who speaks at conferences and meet-ups worldwide, sharing practical and experience-based tips, tricks, and case studies.

Daniel Afonso is a Senior Developer Advocate at PagerDuty, SolidJS DX team member, Instructor at Egghead.io, and Author of State Management with React Query. Daniel has a full-stack background, having worked with different languages and frameworks on various projects from IoT to Fraud Detection. He is passionate about learning and teaching and has spoken at multiple conferences around the world about topics he loves. In his free time, when he's not learning new technologies or writing about them, he's probably reading comics or watching superhero movies and shows.

Alessia lives in New York City with her wife, son, and rambunctious cat. She loves ECMAScript, building in the open, and making plotter art with her two trusty drawing robots.

Kathryn Middleton is an Engineering Manager on the React team. Kathryn initially discovered web development when she wanted to make her myspace page look cool. She ended up majoring in Computer Science, and quickly became a huge fan of React building features on the Instagram.com team. Outside of programming she loves playing pingpong, teaching spin classes, and going plant shopping.

Pillippa is a dedicated software developer and avid React enthusiast, fueled by her innate curiosity and zeal for learning. Hailing from a small town and growing up in a large family, she embraced the virtues of persistence and determination from a young age. Pillippa's keen focus on innovation and the practical application of new knowledge drives her exploration of diverse features in web development. As an active participant within the community, she aspires to inspire and collaborate with fellow developers, fostering a collective spirit of growth and advancement.

I'm a frequent traveler, too much coffee drinker, and a constant Reddit lurker. Since Diablo 1 piqued my interest in learning how to program, I've been on a mission to continuously grow through my career and personal experiences as a Software Engineer. I hope to share the things I learn with the world!

Kræn is a Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB contributing primarily to Realm JS and its related packages. He has build and maintained multiple React apps, including the Realm Cloud (replaced by MongoDB Atlas post acquisition) and Realm Studio (an Electron app to browse the Realm database). He lives 30 minutes west of Copenhagen, with his wife and their two twin girls. They recently added yet another newborn girl to their pack.

Karan is working as SDE 2 at Fabric. Currently dabbling with Design System, Micro Frontend and Frontend Infrastructure

Jon Jensen is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix working to improve the developer experience for other UI engineers. Previously he worked at Amazon and Instructure, working on all things software-y. In his spare time he's usually in the mountains or playing with his kids.

Staff software engineer at CodeSandbox pushing the boundaries of what is possible with web technology, Rust enthousiast, performance obsessed, building developer friendly tools

Lucas is a proud dad and kickboxing brown belt. He has over 15 years of experience in large-scale software development, from system design and architecture to engineering management of front-end teams. In addition, he invests time in influencing technical recruitment processes, mentoring engineers, and, most recently, hosting a career podcast in Brazilian Portuguese. Currently working at Apple as a contractor from Avenue Code.

Chris Ng is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn based in New York City. Chris leads the linting strategy for LinkedIn's flagship web application and brings together different teams and personalities to achieve shared goals related to web infrastructure, product strategy, and resolving long standing issues.

Ruby Jane Cabagnot is a full-stack DotNET/Reactjs developer based in Oslo, Norway, who published a book about writing Enterprise React applications.

Jerel is a Principal Software Engineer at Apollo GraphQL maintaining the Apollo TypeScript Client living in beautiful Colorado, USA. He loves the art of software development and finding creative solutions to challenging problems.

Mike is a passionate software engineer with an intense focus on community. His expertise has been spent organizing multiple meetup groups (React Utah, UtahJS, Free Code Camp), Improving training and content for local bootcamps and universities, running open source projects, and becoming a tech conference organizer and speaker. His goal is to help break barriers for those entering the tech industry.

Web developer, speaker, and educator. Constantly discovering new ways to improve the architecture of web applications, and make them more secure, fast, and interactive.

Heather May is a Lead Software Engineer at Stitch Fix, author, musician, and proud Mama of the sweetest Pointer-mix rescue.

Luis is a Senior Software Engineer at imgix, focusing on delivering the best images and video developer experience on the web. He’s passionate about open source and baseball (let’s go Bucs!). He's a defunct tech collector, amassing a now-useless pile of everything from eMate 400s to HD-DVD players.

Niya is a Software Engineer at Healthie, primarily working on the front end. She is passionate about user experience, performance, the cool shit you can do with javascript, and a good cup of coffee. If she is not coding, you can find her binging anime or reading manga.

Experienced JavaScript Software Engineer with 7 years in the industry. More skilled in Front-end Development, with high level of experience in working with Micro Front-end architecture, designing projects as a set of standalone components that include their own interfaces, logic, and storage, developing mini-applications independently, and composing them all together in the browser with different integration techniques. Passionate about web performance and ensuring the best possible User Experience of web applications.

Tom is a Senior Software Engineer at Canva, based in Sydney. He has worked on Canva’s Apps SDK for the last few years, working across the stack to deliver the APIs that Canva’s growing developer ecosystem loves.