React Summit US 2024

Addy Osmani is an engineering leader working on Google Chrome. He leads up Chrome's Developer Experience organization, helping reduce the friction for developers to build great user experiences.

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.

Kelly Vaughn is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and purveyor of developer jokes on Twitter. She's passionate about coaching individual contributors and early career engineering managers into strong leaders. She is currently Director of Engineering at Spot AI. When she's not working, you'll probably find her on her Peloton, traveling to a new country, or spending time at a coffee shop to make a tiny dent in her never-ending book collection.

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.

Tracy has been a startup founder for the past 16 years and is an angel investor focused on developer tooling. Her passion is helping entrepreneurs with go to market / marketing, development (management), and open source strategies. She loves talking about figuring out tactical ways to go to market, expand sales and drive customer acquisiton through automation. Tracy also is a JavaScript developer, on the RxJS core team, a Google Developer Expert, a Github Star, and a Microsoft MVP. She spends most of her time in the open source ecosystem, and building products and communities in this space. After her last exit in 2015, she started a consultancy called This Dot Labs, which serves clients such as Stripe, Xero, Docusign, Twilio, Roblox, Google, Cloudinary, Sentry, and more, but also helps startups get off the ground from POC to implementation. She is also a frequent keynote speaker at conferences. You can find her on Twitter @ladyleet or at thisdot.co

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.

Feross is founder and CEO at Socket (https://socket.dev), a developer-first security platform. Feross has worked in open source software for 10+ years writing some of the most-downloaded JavaScript packages. Feross is a lecturer at Stanford where he teaches CS 253 Web Security. Socket makes a developer-first security platform that prevents vulnerable and malicious open source dependencies from infiltrating your software supply chain. Thousands of organizations in every industry use Socket to safely discover, audit, and manage OSS at scale.

Jack Herrington is a principal full stack engineer, author and YouTuber who is trying to bring a practical approach to engineering and education to developers at all skill levels.

Shruti Kapoor is an accomplished Staff Engineer with a strong focus on front-end development. Currently employed at Slack, she brings extensive experience to the table from her time at PayPal. With a passion for DevJokes, Shruti has carved out a unique niche in the tech industry, bringing a refreshing sense of humor to her work. In addition to her professional accomplishments, Shruti is also an experienced educator, having taught courses in JavaScript, React, GraphQL, and front-end development. As an egghead instructor, she is dedicated to sharing her knowledge and expertise with others, helping to build the next generation of tech leaders.

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.

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.

Monica Powell is a software engineer who is passionate about making contributing to open-source more approachable, creating technology to elevate people, and building community. You can find her developing educational technology as a Senior Software Engineer at Newsela, teaching web development, and contributing to open-source projects. GitHub recognized her as an inaugural GitHub Star based on her involvement in the tech community.

Chakit is a Full Stack Developer based in India, he is passionate about the web and likes to be involved in the community. He is a Twitter space host, who likes to talk and write about technology. He is always excited to try out new technologies and frameworks. He works as a Solutions Engineer at Storyblok.

Carmen Huidobro is a developer advocate and dev education enthusiast. She thrives on lifting others up in their tech careers and loves a good CSS challenge. Always excited to talk about teaching tech, especialmente en Español, oder auf Deutsch.

Tom is the Head of Developer Experience at Convex, which means he's the one to blame if your support tickets takes longer than 5 minutes to get a response. He also spends a lot of time talking with developers in order to better understand how to make Convex the fastest, most reliable and easy-to-use development platform on the planet. If you have any ideas, email him! Tom got into software engineering as a kid, and it's a passion that never left. His free time is spent reading programming books (no joke), and playing covers of 90s pop songs on his guitar while singing extremely loudly and beautifully.

David Mytton is currently building Arcjet, a product to help developers protect their apps. He also writes the console.dev weekly devtools newsletter which reviews the most interesting tools for developers. In addition, David is pursuing a PhD in engineering science & sustainable computing at the University of Oxford. In the past, he co-founded Server Density, a cloud infrastructure monitoring startup which was acquired in 2018 by edge computing platform, StackPath.

Jamie is a hobbyist cross-platform developer who likes exploring how we can make native app development more like web development.

Second best TypeScript YouTuber who happens to run dev tools company. Known primarily for memes, hot takes, and building useful things for devs such as UploadThing and the T3 Stack.

Chris is the co-founder and CTO at Knock, a company that helps companies send better notifications to their users. He's an avid Elixirist and an active member of the community, running the popular ElixirTalk podcast and co-organizing the EMPEX conference. In his spare time, he hangs out with his mini-dachshund puppy, Trout, and cycles.

Aurora Walberg Scharff is a web developer from Norway. She holds a bachelor's degree in Robotics and Intelligent Systems, with knowledge of engineering mathematics, robotics, algorithms, data structures, and computer architecture. After working for a couple of years at a financial technology startup, she continues developing as a consultant at Inmeta. Aurora is actively building with React Server Components in her current consultancy project and is eager to share her knowledge.

Eunjae is a software developer born and raised in Korea. He moved to France in 2019. He has worked at Algolia and Storyblok, and is now at cal.com. He has worked on projects with a big focus on developer experience, developer tools, and everything that makes our lives less painful. He lives in a small town near Paris with his wife and two cats, growing veggies on the balcony.

A graduate in Web Design and Development from the Haute École Albert Jacquard in Belgium, Laura earned a gold medal in 2021, proudly representing Belgium at EuroSkills Graz 2021 in Web Technologies. Laura has been on a computer since the age of 6, always knowing that tech was her domain. Today, she works as a Full-Stack developer and consultant at Inside Software in the medical field. For the past year, she has been streaming web development on Twitch and hosting the show 'On est pas des iencli' on RTBF iXPÉ, the Belgian national media. Since her first conference in May 2023, Laura aspires to continue sharing her experience and knowledge through public speaking engagements.

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.

Bree is a frontend Software Engineer turned Developer Advocate at HubSpot. She has a passion for coding and making technology education accessible to everyone. Bree creates technical content to help developers create and build autonomously.

Dr. Florian Rappl is a solution architect from Germany who specializes in the creation of scalable distributed web applications. He is almost exclusively working on micro frontend solutions. Florian is a long-time Microsoft MVP in the development tools area.

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.

Jorans passion involves getting people to love technology and getting technology to play nice. He works as an interaction developer with ♡ for web, tech, science & tinkering with stuff. Focussed on innovation at Jumbo Supermarkten. Published author, tweets and speaks every now and then.

Amber Vanderburg is a multi-award winning businessperson, keynote speaker, author, and founder of the international learning development company, The Pathwayz Group, which has led 800,000+ learners in more than 75 countries in action-focused learning journeys. Amber's history in talent development includes authoring top-reviewed online learning courses for platforms such as LinkedIn Learning, Lecturio, and Pluralsight, acting as Director of a national education leadership company, and coaching with professional sports team academies in Asia. In 2022, she published her first business adventure book "Uniquely Better" about building higher team performance.

Kiril is a Principal Software Engineer @ Progress, specialised into building UI Component Libraries and an affinity for Design Systems. Focusing exclusively into this for the last ~7 years, he's been exploring the OSS space lately and build his own open-source Design System Framework.

Seungho is a Research Fellow at LG Electronics and leads Enact (https://github.com/enactjs) as an organization owner and maintainer. Enact is a React-based app framework that supports TV UI components, remote control input, accessibility(a11y), internationalization(i18n), and webOS APIs. It is shipped on webOS devices.

Staff Engineer at Ibotta, formerly co-founder and COO of OctoShop before its acquisition by Ibotta.

I'm a Frontend Engineer mainly involved with building dev-tools and universal component libraries using React Native. My major contributions are towards building NativeBase and gluestack-ui. When I'm not coding, I enjoy playing guitar, singing, and gaming. And I'm a big time nature lover!

I am Managing Director of cismet GmbH. cismet GmbH was founded in 2002 as a spin-off of the Environmental Informatics Group at the Saarland University of Applied Sciences and develops open source-based solutions in the municipal sector.

Staff Engineer at Ibotta, formerly co-founder and CTO of OctoShop before its acquisition by Ibotta.

Miraan is the founder at Hypertune. He was previously at Meta where he led teams across frontend, mobile, backend and machine learning.

Jake is Figma's first developer advocate, and spent the prior 12 years working as a software engineer on both sides of web applications. Guided by a design education, he's held roles across creative agencies and e-commerce platforms, married design fidelity with developer experience building component libraries for design systems, and built tools for front-end developers as an early hire at CodePen. Jake loves to walk the line between design and code, bridge gaps in communication across product development, and bring as much fun and creativity to the work that he can manage to cram in along the way.

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 Senior 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.

Full-Stack developer with a passion for GraphQL, JS/TS, and A11y; as well as a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Power Platform Developer, and Azure Administrator.

"Passionate Software Engineer with a strong background in technology and a desire to constantly learn and grow and share. Omar has always been fascinated by technology since a young age and aspired to turn his passion for programming into a career. At the same time, he has a strong passion for marketing, funnel optimization, product development, and business. He dedicates a portion of his time experimenting with new solutions in these areas on projects that interest him.

I am a Senior Frontend Engineer at Khan Academy and I’ve been working in the industry for over 6 years. During my day job I work mostly on React web components and focus on Accessible Technology. On my off hours I love talking about how to create more accessible and inclusive web applications and hosting a podcast discussing new technology creating positive social impact in our world today. I firmly believe technology can be used to create a more inclusive and equitable world as long as we keep it in check.

Daniel Goren is a lead researcher at Evinced, a pioneering company specializing in automating the detection of accessibility violations. With 6 years of experience and a deep passion for accessibility, Daniel is committed to driving innovation and best practices in the industry.

Heena is an open-source enthusiast since her college days. She completed her Bachelor of Technology from Delhi Technological University, 2011-2015 in computer engineering. She contributed to KDE organization during Google Summer of Code. Later, she mentored open-source contributors as a Google Code In, 2013 mentor and made the KDE community even more stronger by her diligent demonstration of mentorship skills. She was also one of the co-administrator and mentor for Search of KDE, 2014 and Google Code In, 2014. She has represented KDE organization in various Google Summer of Code knowledge sharing sessions held in DTU. She also presented KDE plasma projects in FOSSASIA 2015, Singapore. She also organized a Google Summer of Code meetup in Delhi which was featured in Google open-source blog. Apart from her open-source contributions, she has over 8 years of work experience as a software developer. She is currently working at Expedia as a Software Development Engineer III for Flights. She is one of the service owner for flights progressive web application. She has done several pipeline improvements for an efficient release process and is responsible for ensuring timely releases using the release pipeline for the same. She is a part of flights performance project where she shares a crucial role in making the flights progressive web application performance efficient. She has presented on “Portfolio Management through storytelling using narrative visualizations with advanced filtering” in Hong Kong Open Source Conference, 2017. She also presented a poster on “Optimal financial planning through storytelling using narrative visualizations with advanced filtering“ in Grace Hopper Conference India, 2017. She was also a mentor in “Learn IT, Girl” 2015 in which she mentored female developers.

Tom is the Chief Product Officer at Vercel leading Engineering, Product, and Design. Previously he spent over 12 years at Facebook where he led development of the company’s core JavaScript Infra, shaped its open source program, and was responsible for the creation and development of React and React Native. He enjoys traveling, dance music, fancy cocktails, and simple food.

I'm David Villamarin, a Frontend Software Developer at Stack Builders with over 3 years of expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript. Actively contributing to open-source initiatives, I like to share my knowledge and experiences with the broader software community. Beyond coding, I am an avid chess player, sports enthusiast, and an eclectic reader. I look forward to contributing to the community and exchanging insights with fellow developers.

My degree is in Graphic Design, but when I started coding by accident, I fell in love with the beauty of good code. I've never looked back. I've worked for tiny sole proprietorships and giant multinationals, startups and mature companies. I've found something interesting and worth doing at all of them.

Mofei started programming when she realized it can help her cheat in video games. She focused on operating systems in undergrad / grad school, but now finds herself happily tinkering on React. Outside of work, she enjoys debugging bouldering problems and planning her next backpacking trip(s).

Philip Fulcher is a senior engineer with at Nx. He works with Fortune 500 clients to modernize their development practices with a monorepo approach. Philip lives in Colorado with his wife (who is much smarter than him) and two great kids.

Experienced sales engineering leader with an extensive background in project management, data analytics, BI, data science and a wide range of software skills. Trusted consultant for technical expertise and sales strategy.

React Three Fiber maintainer and web game dev enthusiast, creating open source web game technologies for everyone.

Graham is the Co-founder and CEO of GrowthBook, the most popular open-source feature flagging and A/B testing platform. GrowthBook is backed by Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures. Before starting GrowthBook, Graham was the CTO of Education.com for 6 years. Graham is a three-time startup founder, including starting an international non-profit to increase access to communication in the developing world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. He has a degree in Physics from CMU.