JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

Staff Developer Advocate at Aiven.io. Organizer DevOps Days Amsterdam, DevOps Days Eindhoven, and several meetups, including contributing.today, on open source topics and tools. I knit and do crossstitch and I own chickens.

Daniel Ehrenberg is a software engineer on Bloomberg’s JavaScript Infrastructure & Tooling Engineering team. He serves as the Vice President of Ecma International and contributes to Ecma TC39, the JavaScript standards committee. Daniel has dabbled in WebAssembly and web standards as well, both while at Bloomberg and in his previous positions at Igalia, a free software cooperative, and at Google on the V8 team, the JavaScript engine in Chrome.

Sathya is a software engineer on the React core team at Meta, where he is currently building the React compiler. Previously, he worked on the V8 JavaScript compiler at Google.

Salma writes code for your entertainment. She specialises in streaming live coding, and loves helping people get into tech. After a career as a music teacher and comedian, Salma transitioned to technology in 2014, working as a front end developer and tech lead for startups, agencies and global e-commerce. Active in the developer community, Salma is a Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, winner of the Jamstack Conf Community Creator Award 2021, and a partnered Twitch streamer where she builds weird websites, roasts your code, and chats about the tech industry every week.

GraphQL co-creator, Facebook engineering director

Sidney is a Software Engineer and educator based in Atlanta, GA, US. She always aims to keep people laughing and learning something while navigating the tech industry. Her work includes finding compassion and play as she shares how she navigates her tech career on her YouTube channel and co-hosts the Deeper Than Tech Podcast.

Jon Meyers is a Software Engineer, Educator and Hip Hop Producer from Melbourne, Australia. He's passionate about web development and enabling others to build amazing things! He is currently working as a Developer Advocate at Supabase, showing just how awesome databases can be!

Software Engineer Architect, Vue Js guru, JS lover, A11y fan, PWA explorer, @gitKraken Ambassador, book author and super dad.

Matt Butcher is co-founder and CEO of Fermyon, the serverless WebAssembly in the cloud company. He is one of the original creators of Helm, Brigade, CNAB, OAM, Glide and Krustlet. He has written and co-written many books, including "Learning Helm" and "Go in Practice." He is a co-creator of the "Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes" series. These days, he works mostly on WebAssembly projects such as Spin, Fermyon Cloud and Bartholomew. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He lives in Colorado, where he drinks lots of coffee.

Elio Struyf has led a remarkable career as an award-winning Engineering Lead, a trusted information technology thought-leader, and an energizing public speaker with over a decade of experience facilitating events and conferences across Europe. Over his career, he has been invited to numerous cities including Barcelona, London, Paris, and Stockholm, where he has spoken on thought-provoking, development-related topics on Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and Azure DevOps. His extensive knowledge has seen him recognized as a Microsoft MVP ten times, three times as a GitHub Star, a Google Developer Experts, and he has been recognized as a SharePoint/Microsoft 365 Top 25 Influencer four times. Today, along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio works as an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting. Elio remains a sought-after speaker at various Microsoft-related community events and conferences, where he inspires, educates, and creates authentic connections with technology professionals and developers across Europe.

Mike Mikula is a seasoned entrepreneur and engineer whose journey began at 17 when he was featured in The Wall Street Journal for his pioneering work in 3D virtual worlds. Over the next decade, he built, scaled, and successfully exited his own software company, growing its user base to over one million. Today, Mike is at the forefront of AI innovation, channeling his passion and expertise into maximizing efficiency for development productivity.

Tero Piirainen has 25+ years of experience building startups and open-source projects from scratch. He is mostly known for Flowplayer, jQuery Tools UI library, Muut, and Riot.js frontend framework. He recently dropped his startup career to work full-time with Nue: "The content-first web framework", his most ambitious OSS project.

Nikolay Advolodkin is the founder and Chief Engineer of UltimateQA, a thriving community of over 150,000 software developers in more than 190 countries. He is a renowned software development and test automation expert, currently building the most advanced AI-supported automation tooling. With a deep-seated passion for all things tech, Nikolay has made it his mission to spread knowledge and expertise to others.

Nikolay Advolodkin is the founder and Chief Engineer of UltimateQA, a thriving community of over 150,000 software developers in more than 190 countries. He is a renowned software development and test automation expert, currently building the most advanced AI-supported automation tooling. With a deep-seated passion for all things tech, Nikolay has made it his mission to spread knowledge and expertise to others.

Yoko is a tech cartoonist, engineer, product manager and partner at a16z. She spent years as an engineer writing developer tools at AppDynamics and Transposit using React and Anguar, and was a product lead for Terraform Cloud at Hashicorp. Currently, Yoko is a partner at a16z by day, investing in the Javascript ecosystem, and a cartoonist by night, when she draws cartoons to make fun of tech.

Kamlesh is a Principal Frontend Engineer at Razorpay working on Design System and Frontend Infrastructure. Recently he has developed a fascination for interior designing and has a zest for home decor.

Darcy is a Software Engineer, Founder, Mentor & UX Advocate who has created award-winning products & experiences with a holistic approach to problem solving for more than two decades. Most recently, he was the Staff Engineering Manager at GitHub for both the npm & GitHub CLI teams; supporting over 100 Open Source projects - accounting for over 3 billion monthly downloads. He is currently working on a stealth Open Source project while continuing to support the Node.js Project & OpenJS Foundation efforts in various Working Groups.

Obinna Ekwuno is a human before anything else. He mostly works on the web and loves to teach concepts in JavaScript while advocating for web accessibility. He does this through speaking, live streams, and technical articles. Currently, he works as a Developer Advocate at Cloudflare and before that he worked as a Software Engineer at Gatsby, where he worked on Gatsby Open source.

Chen Hui Jing is a self-taught designer and developer living in Singapore, with an inordinate love fHui Jing is a self-taught designer and developer living in Singapore, who loves CSS way more than the average web developer. With more than a decade of experience working on the web, her main focus is building performant and responsive frontend interfaces. And yes, Hui Jing is a two-word Chinese first name. She can often be found spanning routes in some local climbing gym.

Alex is a software engineer passionate about web technologies and music. He began working on web projects and sharing his experiences in 2011. His passion for programming spans different languages such as Python and JavaScript, as well as the open-source world and startups. Alex co-organizes the serverless meetup in Milan, a project that gave rise to conferences such as ServerlessDays. After spending 6 years helping developers and companies adopt cloud technologies, Alex returned to the startup life to help businesses adopt edge computing technologies and services.

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.

I am a book author, international speaker, researcher, software architect, and seasoned software engineer. I am a recognized figure within the Haskell community, renowned for pioneering ideas in the world of functional programming. I have authored two books: "Functional Design and Architecture" (in two editions) and am currently working on my third book, "Pragmatic Type-Level Design." Additionally, I have created my own development methodology known as Functional Declarative Design, serving as a counterpart to Object-Oriented Design. With over 14 years of experience across various programming stacks, including C++, Haskell, C#, and Python, I have traversed the full spectrum of roles, progressing from a regular developer to a software architect and team lead. I have previously served as a member of program committees for C++ conferences, including C++ Siberia and C++ Russia. I was working with the speakers all around the world to help them prepare their talks and to make their participation in the conferences smooth and joyful. As a seasoned speaker, I have delivered more than 20 talks at both local and international conferences, including a keynote presentation on functional C++. My personal mission revolves around providing practical insights into constructing industrial-grade applications using concepts from functional programming.