JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Ian Johnson is a data visualization developer and software prototyper at ObservableHQ. Ian has been turning data into pixels for more than 15 years, cheering on the developments in web standards and open source technologies that enable ever richer forms of communicating data. Ian helped found the Bay Area D3 User Group, a community of thousands of d3.js practitioners, to learn from other like-minded folks. He has prototyped software and visualizations for companies, researchers and causes. He enjoys sharing his understanding and is often tweeting about data visualization and the creative process.

Chris Ferdinandi helps people learn vanilla JavaScript. He believes there’s a simpler, more resilient way to make things for the web. His developer tips newsletter is read by thousands of developers each weekday. Learn more at GoMakeThings.com.

Dan Shappir is the Performance Tech Lead at NEXT Insurance, and previously held that position at Wix.com. Dan has over 25 years of software development experience, and has worked on systems ranging from multiuser games to missile trajectory simulations to designing and building large-scale Web applications used by hundreds of millions of users. He is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, a host and panelist on the JavaScript Jabber podcast, and an Invited Expert on the W3C Web Performance Working Group. Dan holds an MSc in Computer Science.

Alyssa is an Angular Developer Advocate for KUI and a Google Developer Expert for Angular. Her two degrees (Web Design & Development and Psychology) feed her speaking career. She has spoken at over 30 conferences Internationally. She streams weekly on the Angular Air podcast and Twitch CodeItLive channel. She enjoys gaming, scuba diving, and has a little one that fondly goes by "Mr. Milks".

Jen Luker is a Sr. Frontend Engineer, conference speaker, and BookBytes podcast co-host. She has spent the majority of her career as a full-stack developer using PHP, Javascript, and CSS, but has a particular fondness for frontend technologies. She is an advocate for both accessibility, and processes that make doing the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard. When she's not exploring solutions, learning new technologies, or reading, Jen's spare time is spent spinning yarn from raw wool and knitting; she's even been known to 3D print her own tools for the job. She is also fascinated by all things space, antique cars, and IoT.

Natalia has worked in the roles of frontend developer, full-stack developer, technical lead, software and solutions architect. Now she leads the end-to-end developer experience for JavaScript and Node.js, on Azure. Natalia is also part of the Google Developer Experts for Angular and Web Technologies, and Google Mentors programs, and an MVP award for Developer Technologies.

Boris is the founder of Baselime. Before this, he worked on back-end systems and infrastructure at multiple startups, where he was drawn to cloud-native and serverless technologies. He always ended up being the guardian of the logging and monitoring systems in the teams he joined. Now, he’s helping serverless teams automate their observability configurations with Observability as Code.

Vue.js & VueUse & Element Plus team member.

Senior Engineer at Nx, open source contributor, GDE for Angular & Google Maps platform, WTM Ambassador, AngularAthens meetup co-founder. Mentoring women into tech, speaking about the cool things I do, climbing mountains and serving cats for life.

Phil is a developer relations engineer for DataStax and Google Developer Expert living in Melbourne, Australia. He's been working in developer relations for a decade, speaking at conferences since 2012, and writing JavaScript since before jQuery. Away from the keyboard, Phil enjoys travel, live music, and hanging out with his mini sausage dog, Ruby.

The creator of PostCSS, Autoprefixer and Nano ID

Stefan Baumgartner is a software architect based in Austria and the owner of oida.dev. He is the author of “TypeScript in 50 Lessons”, published by Smashing Magazine, and "The TypeScript Cookbook", published by O'Reilly. He organizes ScriptConf, DevOne, and Rust Linz, and co-hosts the German-language Working Draft podcast. Stefan enjoys Italian food, Belgian beer, and British vinyl records.

Oleg Šelajev is a developer advocate at AtomicJar working on making integration tests with Testcontainers better for everyone in the community. VirtualJUG leader. In 2017 became a Java Champion.

David Burns, heads the Open Source office at BrowserStack. He is also a core contributor to the Selenium project and Chair for the W3C Browser Testing and Tools Working Group.

My name is Mateusz Burzyński and I'm a JavaScript developer focused on React ecosystem. I'm also a big OSS enthusiast. I believe that node_modules is not a black box and I dive into it frequently - that has led me to maintain a few popular repositories like XState, Emotion, Changesets, Redux-Saga. Recently, I also started to contribute to TypeScript itself.

Ivan is a: • Google Developer Expert • Sr Web Performance Engineer at Framer • Prev. web perf consultant (Google, Toggl, Appsmith, etc.) Outside of work, Ivan enjoys exploring modern art, discovering lesser-known electronic and techno artists, and obsessing over serif typefaces.

Oleg is a UI Engineer and the founder of Webstudio, an Open Source visual development platform that aims to break through the limits of popular no-code tools and solve designer-developer collaboration challenges.

Carolina is always exploring new paths and looking for new perspectives for solving problems. As a computer scientist working at Briza, she loves to work in challenging industries, like insurance. She believes that everyone is responsible for making the tech environment safer and diverse. Pasta maker, coffee enthusiast and book lover.

Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development. He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and has also been a MLH Fellow. He is actively involved in community work as well. He is a TensorflowJS SIG member, Mentor in OpenMined and CNCF Service Mesh Community, SODA Foundation and has given talks at various conferences like Github Satellite, Voice Global, Fossasia Tech Summit, TensorflowJS Show & Tell.

Elizabet Oliveira, a former hip-hop artist and now a design engineer at Xata, is known for combining creativity and design in open-source projects. She created the award-winning React-Kawaii library and was the lead designer for "Elastic UI," a popular design system at Elastic. Famous for her unique presentations, including her "Fork this" rap song, Elizabet aims to bridge the gap between front-end development and design.

I'm a Developer Advocate Engineer at Hugging Face with a PhD in Computer Science from Brown University. My work lies at the intersection of ML, 3D, and Game Development.

I'm Sergio Xalambrí, an Argentinian web developer living in Perú and working at Daffy.org. I'm a tech writer at sergiodxa.com and an Open Source author and contributor. I'm an early supporter and contributor of Remix. Previous contributor of Next.js, SWR, and several other OSS projects. I’ve also authored Remix Auth, Remix Utils, remix-i18next, useMutation, flagged, and more packages.

Currently mostly into webapps and devtools. Build most stuff using the create-t3-app stack. Open Source Enthusiast

Manjula loves contributing to OSS in her free time. She loves teaching and believes it is best way to learn more and more. She is one of the organisers for React India.