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.

Matt is an independent TypeScript educator, building awesome self-paced courses at Total TypeScript.

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.

Luca Mezzalira is principal solutions architect at AWS, 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 👋 ⚽️ 🧑‍💻 🎧

Tech Lead • Front-End Advocate • Mentor & Educator • Tech Blogger • Published Author • 100+ IT Certifications • 30K+ Followers • Docker Captain • 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.

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.

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

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.

Currently, building applications to optimize the creation process for Netflix’s movies and TV series - from planning and production to launch, and promotion. Frontend Engineer with 6+ years of experience. Master of engineering degree. Experienced in leading teams, collaborating with stakeholders, mentoring, interviewing, and onboarding new hires. Passionate about learning new technologies and following the latest trends in web development. Worked for both product (Netflix, Atlassian) and service companies.

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.