React Summit US 2025

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.

Swyx is Editor of Latent.Space. He is best known for his writing on the Rise of the AI Engineer on the Latent.Space newsletter and podcast, and for curating the AI Engineer Summit, the top conference for AI Engineers. You can find him on Twitter, Github, and YouTube.

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.

David Khourshid (known on Twitter as David K. Piano) is a software engineer for Microsoft, a tech author, and speaker. Also a fervent open-source contributor, he is passionate about statecharts and software modeling, reactive animations, innovative user interfaces, and cutting-edge front-end technologies. When not behind a computer keyboard, he’s behind a piano keyboard or traveling.

Staff Engineer @REDACTED, ReactJS Advocate, Speaker, Producer, Synthwave Artist, Google Dev Expert.

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

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.

Mike Mikula is a seasoned entrepreneur and engineer whose journey began at 17 when he was featured in The Wall Street Journal for his pioneering work in 3D virtual worlds. Over the next decade, he built, scaled, and successfully exited his own software company, growing its user base to over one million. Today, Mike is at the forefront of AI innovation, channeling his passion and expertise into maximizing efficiency for development productivity.

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.

Amy has over 22+ years of web experience and have expertise in product design, frontend, and backend development. She's developed multiple technology courses and written curriculum for the University of Florida, in their Master’s program. She has spoken at conferences around the world about full stack development. Her podcast, http://Compressed.fm supports thousands of developers with design and engineering tips. She has built hundreds of websites and products for enterprise companies, startups, and even major recording artists. She lives in Nashville, TN with her husband, 3 adorable children, and 2 dogs.

Aurora Scharff is a software developer and Microsoft MVP from Norway with a bachelor's degree in Robotics and Intelligent Systems. She has a solid foundation in engineering mathematics, robotics, algorithms, data structures, and computer architecture. Aurora began her career at a financial technology startup and now serves as a consultant at Crayon Consulting. She focuses on web development and has extensive experience in React and Next.js and active use of React Server Components. Aurora shares her knowledge through workshops, technical blog posts, social media, demo applications, and supporting fellow developers, and she regularly presents internationally at recognized conferences to contribute to the global developer community.

Chaitanya is a Staff Frontend Engineer at Razorpay, deeply passionate about design systems and frontend architecture. Over the past few years, he has focused on building scalable systems and tooling that empower developers to create consistent, accessible, and efficient UI at scale. He is part of the team that built Blade, Razorpay’s open-source design system, which has received global recognition and was even featured by Figma. Chaitanya is equally passionate about the world of AI and strongly believes that the intersection of AI and design systems will redefine how we build user interfaces. His recent work on BladeAI, an AI-powered “Figma to Code” solution, reflects that vision — aiming to transform design into production-ready code that speaks the same language as real developers and systems do. When he’s not writing code, Chaitanya is either lost in a good fiction book or gaming on his PlayStation.

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.

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.

Faris Aziz is an experienced engineer, international conference speaker, and workshop instructor specializing in React, Next.js, web architecture, and resilient system design. He has a deep passion for startups, having worked in early-stage companies ranging from founding teams to organizations scaling from 1 to 100 people. His expertise spans engineering leadership, building career ladders from scratch, and managing teams of over 10 engineers. As a front-end subject matter expert, Faris has contributed to creating systems used by millions of users worldwide. His work has ranged from building greenfield projects from the ground up to maintaining and scaling decade-old products. His experience covers industries like Connected TV, Fintech, SaaS, and Fitness, working with companies such as Smallpdf, Fiit, Discovery, GCN, Eurosport, and Navro (formerly Paytrix). Faris’s specialization lies in building user-centric, performant, and maintainable applications. He has a particular interest in observability and monitoring, ensuring that systems are not only robust but also easy to troubleshoot and optimize. His passion extends to sharing knowledge, organizing the Zurich.js meetup in Switzerland, and speaking at international conferences about web development, engineering leadership, and creating scalable systems. In his free time, Faris enjoys contributing to web development tools like Raycast and spending time contemplating life’s great questions, like why the build works on his machine but nowhere else.

Senior Front End Developer at DeepL, working on Design Systems

Shaundai is a front end Senior Software Engineer (Netflix) based in Georgia, US. Through her work as a course instructor (tsforjs.com) and her YouTube channel (youtube.com/shaundai), she aims to make programming interesting and approachable for all.