JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Tru is a software engineer at Discord working in the communities org. on the new member experience team! Her passion is to inspire and educate others about the world of tech. In her free time, she streams programming on Twitch and creates tech content for TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. She loves her dog Beau and buying legos she doesn’t need.

Thomas Wolf is co-founder and Chief Science Officer of HuggingFace. His team is on a mission to catalyze and democratize NLP research. Prior to HuggingFace, Thomas gained a Ph.D. in physics, and later a law degree. He worked as a physics researcher and a European Patent Attorney.

Ryan is a creator of Node.js and Deno. He studied mathematics at UCSD and the University of Rochester before pursuing software engineering professionally. He has worked in various parts of the software - from server infrastructure to machine learning research. His current role is as the co-founder and CEO of Deno Land Inc.

Kitze loves to rant about webdev. He is the founder of founded Sizzy - the browser for developers. He created React Academy to teach web development. He's the creator of Zero To Shipped - the interactive video course for mastering Fullstack Development. He's documenting his journey on YouTube, steams on Twitch and has a blog that he maintains one in a blue moon. He made Benji, Twizzy, ok-google.io, JSUI, Glink, showGPT and etc.

Recovering journalist, open source provocateur. Started Rollup and Svelte. On a mission to make web development fun.

Creator of Turborepo, a high-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript codebases. Jared is the founder of Formium, a developer-focused workflow for building forms and surveys. Prior to that, Jared was the Engineering Lead at The Palmer Group, a strategy, design, and engineering firm based in New York City. He is also the co-host of The Undefined Podcast. An educator, speaker, and open source software enthusiast, Jared is the author of popular projects including Formik, Razzle, After.js, TSDX, Backpack, The Platform, and react-fns. Prior to The Palmer Group, Jared created Skiptu, a content management platform and application framework for Android lockscreens purchased by Unilever.

I'm a full-stack software engineer based in Philadelphia. I founded UltraShock Gaming, a game marketing startup with a community of 500,000 members on Steam, and ran it for 4 years before selling it. I'm passionate about startups in the developer tools space and building interesting side projects. I graduated with a B.S in computer engineering from Drexel and am currently working as a developer advocate for Vercel. When I'm not coding, I'm playing soccer, reading, writing or enjoying some good food with friends.

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.

John is a professional Web and Mobile Developer, avid OSS and community advocate, dedicated father and husband. He is currently a Developer Advocate for Microsoft and has formerly worked for Disney on several web and mobile applications that you may have used. John is the author of various OSS such as Peacock, the Angular Style Guide, and many popular courses. You can listen to him on the popular weekly podcast Real Talk JavaScript.

I lead the UI & Tooling Developer Relations Team at Google Chrome. Our team focuses on making the web platform easier to use and more robust for developers, primarily through CSS, HTML, and DevTools capabilities (with some JavaScript mixed in too). We help design web platform APIs, build samples to identify bugs and demonstrate use cases, research and help prioritize what to add to the platform, and share all the new stuff with you! It’s a pretty meta role, and I love getting to play a small part in supporting the evolving web ecosystem. I’m also a member of the CSS Working Group and OpenUI Community Group.

Author of Three.js.

Charity is the co-founder and CTO of honeycomb.io, the O.G. observability platform. She is the co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering (O'Reilly), and has worked at companies like Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab. She loves free speech, free software and single malt scotch, and writes about startups, technology and leadership at charity.wtf.

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.

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.

Paige Bailey is the UTL for Creator and Developer Experiences at Google DeepMind, where she drives the product strategy for frontier models like Gemini. During her time at Google, she served as the Lead Product Manager for PaLM 2 and managed developer tools such as TensorFlow. Her career also includes key roles at GitHub, where she contributed to Copilot, and engineering positions at Microsoft Azure and Chevron. With a background in geophysics and applied mathematics, Paige is a leading expert in MLOps and is dedicated to making AI tools more accessible for the global developer community.

CSS Modules co-creator / Vanilla Extract / Remix team member at Shopify / MelbJS ogranizer / dad x4.

Building Remix, founder of React Training and creator of UNPKG. Father of 2 sons and 2 daughters. Speaker and writer.

Chris is a highly skilled Front End Architect, Manager and Team Lead with over 25 years of experience in web technologies. He has a passion for breaking down complex technical concepts and presenting them in an understandable format to various audiences. He is excited about the potential of Machine Learning/AI in the creation and development space, and he works closely with different parts of the company to integrate these technologies into our work. Chris has been working across organisations and locales for over 15 years, leading teams and communicating across departments in the US, UK, China and India. He is the author of the Developer Advocacy Handbook, continuously updated since 2006 and the first JavaScript book to cover AJAX. He is a freelance writer for the German IT portal Golem and various online magazines He published videos for Visual Studio Code, helping them reach their 200k follower numbers on YouTube and breaking the 1.4M views barrier on TikTok for one video.

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

Kanika Tolver is a Senior AI Product Manager, Certified Agile Facilitator, and founder of Career Rehab, LLC. With over 15 years of experience across government and private-sector tech, she brings bold insights on product development, AI integration, and career transformation. She's the author of Career Rehab and has been featured on CNN, CNBC, and The Washington Post. Kanika empowers professionals to rethink how they work and thrive in the digital age making her a sought-after speaker at tech and career development conferences.

I own and make video tutorials teaching web development for Level Up Tutorials, releasing a new premium series every month. I also co-host Syntax.fm with Wes Bos. Syntax is a popular, light hearted web development podcast that teaches full stack topics while staying fun. I enjoy breaking also known as breakdancing, and have been dancing for over 15 years doing shows for professional NFL and NBA teams. I'm inspired by a hot cup of green tea, excellent music, and Shaw Bros. kung fu movies.

Over the years, Yehuda has worked on a number of open source projects, including Ruby on Rails, jQuery and Rust. He also created some of his own, including Handlebars, Ember.js and Cargo (Rust's package manager). At the moment, he's working on a new library that extracts the best part's of Ember's auto-tracking reactivity system into a package that you can use in any UI framework. That's what this talk is about!

Creator of Vitest, Slidev, VueUse, UnoCSS, Elk, Type Challenges and others. Core team member of Vue, Nuxt and Vite. Outside of programming, Anthony enjoys doing photography and traveling.

Minko the product lead for Angular at Google. Previously, he was a technical co-founder and the CTO of Rhyme.com, which in 2019 joined Coursera.