JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Thomas Steiner is an Engineer at Google, focused on Web AI, WebAssembly, and Project Fugu. He's an alum of University of Lyon (Postdoc), Polytechnic University of Barcelona (Ph. D.), and University of Karlsruhe (MA). Thomas toots as @[email protected].

Pachi is a front-end dev turned DevRel. She a Co-Founder of Feministech, a community for Brazilian women and non-binary people in tech. When she's not engaging on Twitter or streaming on Twitch, Pachi watches anime, reads too many romance novels, and Hypes people on the internet like that is her job.

Creator of PrimeVue at PrimeTek, the team behind the popular open-source UI libraries. As a Vue enthusiast, he has been working on contributing a top-notch UI library for the Vue Ecosystem.

Shai Reznik or "That guy who always talks about testing..." is the founder of HiRez.io which focuses on cost effective testing training. Being a leading part of the JavaScript community since 2012 and a Google Developer Expert, Shai has been speaking all over the world giving wild and entertaining talks. His courses and training have helped thousands of developers enjoy a stress free life and while increasing their code confidence, quality and efficiency. And his lectures have been viewed by over 170,000 developers (and probably a few random people as well!) As a hobby, Shai does improv and standup comedy and love to tease friends with weird sweaters.

Vanessa is globally renowned for her contributions to the international Sourcing Community. She has delivered keynotes across three continents and trained teams from Auckland to Seattle. Vanessa launched her Talent Sourcing Training business in early 2019 and has not looked back. She is a qualified teacher with experience in agency recruiting and internal talent acquisition (she loved both roles!). She now gets to combine her love of empowering others to do better, with her passion for recruiting through her own Online Academy. She loves it when her training delegates experience that ‘light bulb’ moment as she knows that she has just changed someone’s career, for the better. When Vanessa is not doing research for her training, recording content, or delivering a Keynote, you can find her at the Beach or in the South African Bushveld, taking photographs.

Lorenzo Sciandra is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft; since 2018 he is also a maintainer of react-native, and he’s been a releaser since 0.57.4. He cares a lot about mental health and open source, and won’t stop talking about either.

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 Principal Engineer at Sisense. Previously he was Performance Tech Lead at Wix and at NEXT Insurance. 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. He is a frequent 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.

Vue.js & VueUse & Element Plus team member.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

The creator of PostCSS, Autoprefixer and Nano ID

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.