JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

GraphQL co-creator, Facebook engineering director

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.

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.

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.

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 a renowned software development and test automation expert, serving as a Principal Developer Advocate at Sauce Labs. With a deep-seated passion for all things tech, Nikolay has made it his mission to spread knowledge and expertise to others, having taught over 130,000 students in more than 184 countries. An avid open-source contributor and Gitpod Hero, Nikolay is also the founder of Ultimate QA - a thriving community of over 100,000 software developers. With his extensive background and expertise, Nikolay is a driving force in the tech industry.

Nikolay Advolodkin is a Senior Solutions Architect at Sauce Labs. He has an extensive background in software testing, quality assurance, and test automation as the CEO and Test Automation Instructor at UltimateQA.com, a training site full of videos and resources covering the gamut of testing topics and technologies. Nikolay has taught more than 50,000 students in over 120 countries about test automation. He is a frequent contributor to open source and was selected as one of the top automation engineers in the world three years in a row by TechBeacon.com.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 is a software developer and independent consultant. He's created web and mobile apps using mostly React and React Native, with Node or Ruby on Rails on the back end. He likes all things JavaScript, and has recently been enjoying exploring AI with Pytorch and Tensorflow.js.

Hussien is a Staff Developer at Shopify. He has over 10 year of Fullstack experience with a particular soft spot for React. He also mentors for a coding bootcamp and loves helping beginners break into tech.

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.

I'm a software developer from Reno, NV. I work on the AWS Amplify team. I'm a author of the Vue.js in Action book, and the Ember.js Cookbook. You can also find me at erik.video!

I'm a Software Engineer, Technical Writer, and Developer Relations Engineer at Storyblok. I'm passionate about API and technical documentation, data, Jamstack, headless, learning, sharing knowledge, teaching, building communities, and recently Python. I write technical articles, and API documentation. I speak at meetups and conferences.

Maggie is an open-source community advocate who works on the Azure SDK team at Microsoft to ensure every developer on every platform has an incredible experience with the cloud. JavaScript is her first love, especially date, and time problems. She contributes her expertise to ECMA TC39 and Moment.js.