JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

Jecelyn Yeen is a DevRel engineer at Google working on Chrome DevTools and Browser Automation. Her work focuses on understanding and activating the ecosystem around developer tooling. When she’s not coding (and avocado-ing), she’s jumping into mysterious sea waters in search of narwhals and mermaids.

Nathen Harvey leads the DORA Advocacy team as a developer relations engineering manager at Google Cloud. Nathen has had the privilege of working with some of the best teams and open-source communities, helping them apply the principles and practices of DevOps and SRE. He has been a co-author of the Accelerate State of DevOps report for the past three years. Nathen also co-edited and contributed to 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know.

TC39 team member and an editor of the specification from 2018-2021. Jordan has been heavily involved in the node community for as many years, and has gradually created (but mostly inherited or been gifted) a decent number of open source projects. His focus is JavaScript, standards, frontend web development, full stack (frontend + backend + db) architecture design, and overall object oriented code optimization.

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.

Ryan Cavanaugh has been working on the TypeScript team at Microsoft since before its first public release in 2012. He's worn many hats in this time, including tester, developer, customer data, and now serves as the development manager for the compiler team.

Mobile Developer Advocate at Apollo

Liad Yosef is a seasoned AI lead and software architect. He is the co-builder of MCP-UI, the co-author and maintainer of MCP Apps on the MCP Steering Committee, and a co-creator of GitMCP. Previously AI Lead in Shopify's CEO office, leading agentic interfaces, and currently the co-founder and CTO building the future of human-agentic interfaces at Era Labs. Liad is a web enthusiast two decades, passionate about crafting developer-first experiences. When he isn't defining open-source standards for the agentic web, he writes poetry and moonlights as an analog astronaut for the European Space Agency.

Making open source dev tools and stuff. Currently building @codehike_

Frontend Vimmer. A Web Developer and Web Dev Tool Developer. Open Source with Rust/TypeScript. ast-grep is my hobby project!

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.

Aleksandra is a software engineer based in Wrocław, Poland. She's worked as a full-stack developer with many different languages such as Elixir, Golang, Python, and TypeScript. She was previously a tech lead for the Hasura Console, and now she's a lead maintainer of Blitz.js.

Co-founder & CTO of Vue Storefront - biggest Open Source eCommerce frontend project, co-organizer of Wrocław Vue.js meetups, web perf geek since 2017, proud cat owner.

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.

David is a Senior Program Manager in the Developer Division at Microsoft, working on the end-to-end dev experience for Teams & Azure Communication Services. He’s also the co-creator of Babylon.js. Even if he’s stopped contributing to the project a couple of years ago, he’s still passionate about WebXR and uses it to fun experiments. David is also interested in music composition, quantum computing & video gaming.

Nik is the founder of Serenity and is passionate about cryptography, CRDTs, GraphQL and React. He co-created several popular open source projects like DraftJS Plugins and Polished and participated in Stripe’s Open Source Retreat. In his spare-time he enjoys ski touring, cycling and organising the ReactJS Vienna meetup.

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.

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.

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 @tomayac@toot.cafe.

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.

Tanmai Gopal is the CEO, co-founder of Hasura. He is a StackOverflow powered fullstack developer whose areas of interest and work span React, GraphQL, Nodejs, Haskell, Docker, Postgres & Kubernetes. He is passionate about making it easy to build complex things and is the instructor of India's largest MOOC imad.tech with over 250,000 students.

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.

Maxim Salnikov is a tech and cloud community enthusiast based in Oslo. With over two decades of experience as a web developer, he shares his extensive knowledge of the web platform, cloud computing, and AI by speaking at and providing training for developer events worldwide. By day, Maxim plays a crucial role in supporting the development of cloud and AI solutions within European companies, serving as the leader of developer productivity business at Microsoft. During evenings, he can be found running events for Norway's largest web and cloud development communities. Maxim is passionate about exploring and experimenting with Generative AI possibilities, including AI-assisted development. To share his insights and connect with like-minded professionals globally, he founded and organized the inaugural Prompt Engineering Conference, the first of its kind on a global scale.

Ben is a Christian, husband, and father of 3. He is also a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and an international speaker, with over 15 years of professional experience developing user interfaces. Currently, Ben is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix on their TV Client Foundations team, focusing on TV UI developer productivity. He enjoys playing basketball & golf, DIY, watching movies, and tweeting (@benmvp) / blogging (benmvp.com) about his experiences with new technologies, especially with GenAI, TypeScript & React.