Web Engineering Summit 2026

Wes Bos is a Full Stack developer from Canada. Constantly learning, he creates web development courses focused on JavaScript, TypeScript, React, CSS, Node.js and whatever else comes his way. Wes is the co-host of the popular Syntax.fm podcast and has taught over half a million people JavaScript and has spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.

Eddie is a Fullstack developer with more than 15 years of experience, and has worked with UK Government institutions and banks, global fintechs and startups. In the last 6 years he has focused on creating technical content on Javascript/Typescript, databases, DevOps, testing and AI.

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

Steve Ruiz is founder and CEO of tldraw, a London-based startup building an infinite canvas component for the web. The company is known for its tldraw SDK as well as for many viral AI demos including Make Real and tldraw computer. Prior to tldraw, Steve worked on several open source tools for creative products, including perfect-freehand and perfect-arrows.

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.

Eddy is a passionate Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience with a focus on front-end web development, but also expanding in backend, mobile development, and DevOps. Eddy works as a consultant at FrontValue, and he works on SaaS projects on the side.

Creator of Webpack and Turbopack. Father of two children. Likes to play board games.

Jesse Hall, aka @codeSTACKr, is a Staff Developer Advocate at LiveKit.io and a full-stack developer who specializes in teaching web development. He creates articles, videos, live streams, and interactive presentations that help developers build AI-powered web applications. Jesse focuses on JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and real-time communication technologies. As a self-taught developer, he understands the challenges developers face and breaks down complex topics into clear, actionable content for web developers at all skill levels.

Jessica is a Software Engineer with over 14 years of experience and has been working within the Open Source community for many of those. She led the development of Cypress Component Testing, is a Core Team Member of Faker, and is currently working at HeroDevs on AI Enablement. She’s a contributor to Vue and Vitest.

Luca Mezzalira is principal solutions architect, an international speaker, and an author. Over the past 20 years, he’s mastered software architectures from frontend to the cloud, providing the right solution for the context of the job at hand. OReillyMedia Author

Dan Shappir is Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager at Snyk. Previously he was Performance Tech Lead at Wix and at NEXT Insurance. Dan has 30 years of software development experience, and has worked on systems ranging from multiuser games to designing and building large scale Web applications. He is an international keynote speaker at technical conferences, a host on the popular JavaScript Jabber podcast, and an Invited Expert on the W3C Web Performance Working Group. Dan holds an MSc in Computer Science.

My name is Erik Hanchett! I'm an author, teach and educator. I've been teaching software development for over 10 years on my YouTube channel, Program With Erik. I've also have given talks all over the world on frontend and fullstack development. Currently I work as a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS.

Maya is Lead Software Engineer in Salesforce, working extensively with JavaScript and frontend frameworks and based in Israel. She founded and is currently the organizer of the VueJS Israel Meetup Community, helping to create a strong playground for Vue.js lovers and like-minded developers. Maya is also a published author, international speaker and an open-source library maintainer of frontend and web projects. As a core maintainer of StorefrontUI framework for e-commerce, she focuses on delivering performant components and best practices to the community while believing a strong Vanilla JavaScript knowledge is necessary for being a good web developer.

Joyee is a software engineer at Igalia. She likes tinkering with V8/Node.js to improve their developer experience, stability and performance. She is a V8 committer and a member of the Node.js TSC.

Maël is a distinguished software engineer, recognized for his contributions to the tech industry. He is currently the lead maintainer for Yarn, a popular JavaScript package manager. Maël's expertise extends across multiple domains, but he specializes in front-end development, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Known for his practical and innovative solutions, Maël's work has been integral to improving JavaScript's ecosystem. Apart from his professional achievements, Maël is a passionate advocate for open source projects and contributes to various initiatives.

Louis is a co-founder of Vibe Kanban. A self-taught full-stack engineer, he's spent five years at the intersection of AI and developer productivity, from neural code search (2021) to LLM-based code translation (2024) to Vibe Kanban today. He also runs the AI Tinkerers London community.

Now part of the MongoDB Database Experience team, Anna has previously been one of the most active contributors to Node.js core. She is fueled by a passion for Node.js and its community, and loves sharing what she learns both during and outside of working hours.

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.

Jason Williams is a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP in London, UK, focusing on performance. His work in performance includes collaborating with the W3C Web Performance Working Group to bring Container Timing to the web, a more accurate improvement over Largest Contentful Paint. He has also collaborated on V8 improvements, bringing heat snapshot times down from 10 minutes to 6 seconds. In the open-source community, he is the original author and developer of Boa, an open-source JavaScript engine written in Rust. He is heavily involved in the evolution of ECMAScript, serving as an author on the Stage 4 proposal for Promise.allSettled, which ensures all promises settle before returning results. He is also a champion for the Stage 3 Temporal proposal (for which Boa’s temporal_rs the implementation used in Chrome), which aims to provide standard objects and functions for working with dates and times in ECMAScript.

Claudio Wunder is an Engineer at HubSpot working on their Frontend Platform. Claudio is part of OpenJS Foundation's governance and contributes to open source through Node.js, Webpack, OpenJS, GSoC, GNOME and other mediums.

Svelte Ambassador and Maintainer, sometimes called a mad scientist because of weird Javascript experiments that it does. It's one of the co-creator of Sveltelab and generally a huge nerd. Works as a SSE at Mainmatter.

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.

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.

My primary interest is self development and craftsmanship. I enjoy exploring technologies, coding open source and enterprise projects, teaching, speaking and writing about programming - JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, JSON Schema, DevOps, Web Components, Algorithms 👋 ⚽️ 🧑‍💻 🎧

Developer at basement.studio specializing in React, Three.JS and WebXR. I’m currently focused on pushing the boundaries of the web with shaders and bridging the gap between AI and spatial computing. When I’m not fine-tuning code, I’m experimenting with the future of open-source graphics.

I am a software engineer at Deno who works on developer experience, implementing web APIs, improving auto-generated documentation, and more. When I am not programming, I tinker with 3D printers & fly drones.

Anemari Fiser is a tech leadership trainer, coach and O’Reilly author of Leveling Up as a Tech Lead. With over a decade in tech, she has coached 500+ engineers and trained 400+ tech leads worldwide, and shares practical leadership insights on LinkedIn with a community of 30,000+ tech professionals.

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.

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.

I’m a software engineer working at Sentry and Pebblebyte, where I focus on frontend, DevOps, and making sure observability is everywhere. When I’m not deep in code, you’ll probably find me kitesurfing, road biking, swimming, or hanging off a rock wall. Whether I’m debugging or chasing wind, I’m always looking for that perfect flow.

I’m a frontend developer with a growing focus on creative development. I work with Next.js, Three.JS, with a strong interest in performance and in exploring how traditional UI and graphics can coexist. Currently at basement.studio.

Alon is a Software Engineering Team Lead at Monday.com with over a decade of experience in the software industry. Prior to joining monday.com, he worked at companies such as at Intel, BrightSource, and MyHeritage, specializing in Frontend development before transitioning to leadership roles in 2020. Alon is passionate about "doing the right things right," combining architectural guidance with empathetic leadership to help his team reach their full potential. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in his spare time, loves to travels the world with his wife and kids, and as a true coffee enthusiast he manages a coffee community and develops shopping aid tools.

Engineering leader with 10+ years of experience in software development, QA, and team leadership. Passionate about delivering high-quality products, empowering teams, and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous growth. Skilled in engineering management, project execution, and aligning technical excellence with business goals.

Wendy Erdheim-Poch is a QA Automation Engineer at Elementor with over nine years of experience in JavaScript testing and automation. She helps development teams build confidence in their code by making quality a natural part of the workflow. She’s passionate about pushing buttons, breaking things, and making sure everything works the way it should. Outside of tech, she’s a swim teacher, mom of two, and enjoys camping and creative projects.

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.

Ulrich-Matthias grew up in the open-source world and is the maintainer of svg.js. He made his hobby his job and now works as a freelancer and consultant in the web space. As an open-source enthusiast, he's a proud member of the e18e community and a Vue fanboy.

Performance testing specialist with 7 years of experience delivering reliable and scalable applications. I design and implement performance testing strategies from scratch, identify bottlenecks, and provide actionable insights that improve system stability and user experience. Skilled in JMeter, BlazeMeter, Grafana, InfluxDB, Jenkins/TeamCity, and cloud environments (AWS, Azure). Experienced with monitoring and observability tools like Kibana, Telegraf, and Zabbix, enabling proactive issue detection and performance optimization. I help teams ensure their applications handle real-world traffic efficiently, reduce downtime, and meet business performance goals.

Sohan is a Lead Developer Advocate at AuthZed, based in the Netherlands. He started his career as a developer building mobile apps and has been living in the cloud since 2013, in companies such as Amazon, Fermyon and Gupshup. He is also an O' Reilly author, having created a course on Cloud Concepts for Everyone. He has always been interested in emerging technologies and how it shapes the world around us.

Liang Gong works at Meta on building and optimizing web and developer infrastructure, with a focus on improving performance, memory efficiency, reliability, and user engagement. He is the creator of the open-source project MemLab and holds a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley, where his research was in the area of programming languages, software engineering, and JavaScript program analysis.

Amit Hanoch is a Tech Lead at monday.com with 10 years of experience in software engineering. A graduate of the Mamram unit with a B.Sc. in Computer Science, Amit focuses on navigating complex systems. His work focuses on making large-scale architectural shifts predictable and efficient through automation. In his spare time, Amit creates coffee videos online, where he explores the technical side of brewing the perfect cup.

Tshepiso is a speaker with a commitment for building inclusive digital experiences. Her work focuses on accessibility, not just as a technical requirement, but as a human responsibility shaped by everyday design and development choices.

Is a Principal Engineer at Zalando, focusing on partner facing platforms, their component library, and the developer experience around them.

I'm a frontend developer currently @ Meta. I love making cool things on the web with a focus on performant, satisfying UX. Recently moved to London to build a brand new AI-powered design system for WhatsApp.

Pratyusha Singaraju is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix Inc., where she architects and builds sophisticated backend services that power the content understanding infrastructure behind Netflix's search, collections, and ratings systems. Her work directly impacts how millions of users discover and engage with content across the platform. Prior to Netflix, Pratyusha was part of Microsoft's data team for Bing, where she worked on knowledge graph initiatives spanning diverse public domains, including food, nutrition, politics, events, and building an enterprise knowledge graph.

JavaScript developer with full-stack experience and frontend passion. Interests: web components, AI, rowing, improv theatre

Sylwia is a Senior JavaScript Developer with over a decade of experience. She has worked on a wide range of projects, from greenfield applications to complex migrations. As a Tech Lead, she focuses on helping teams modernize legacy codebases and build sustainable solutions.

Frontend Engineer at Netflix, where he builds internal products that support the lifecycle of movies and TV series - from planning and production to launch and promotion. With 7 years of experience in software engineering and a background in aerospace engineering, he is passionate about developer productivity, product-minded engineering, and practical applications of GenAI.

I’m Karthick working as a Senior Web Platform developer in Sixt. I spend my time building JavaScript platforms, refining workspace-driven architectures, and designing the infrastructure layers that tie everything together. From Nx/pnpm monorepos to multi-instance microfrontends, I focus on the patterns, boundaries, and shared capabilities that help application teams scale without friction. I love diving into how large JS systems behave in the real world and sharing practical lessons that simplify them.

Viola is a senior software engineer with over eight years of experience, focused on production reliability and security for modern web applications. She works across frontend, backend, and delivery pipelines, with a particular focus on authentication, observability, and testing strategies that prevent incidents. She is a Cypress Ambassador, speaks regularly at community events, and runs weekly workshops for engineers contributing to open-source projects.