JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Explore personalities and their talks, workshops, videos, and articles. While we focus primarily on JavaScript and frameworks like React, Vue, Svelte, and Node, you may find experts on other fields on our Portal. To name a few – Testing, DevOps, Machine Learning, and many more!
Chris Achard
Chris Achard
NanoHop, USA
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.
Erik Hanchett
Erik Hanchett
AWS, USA
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!
Hussien Khayoon
Hussien Khayoon
Shopify, Canada
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.
Fortune Ikechi
Fortune Ikechi
Storyblok, Nigeria
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.
Nicola Corti
Nicola Corti
Meta, UK
Nicola Corti is a software engineer in the React Native Core team at Meta, where he helps to build one of the most popular cross-platform mobile framework. Nicola is also a Google Developer Expert for Kotlin, and he is the maintainer of several open-source libraries and tools for Android developers. His involvement in the ecosystem goes from speaking at international conferences to being a member of CFP committees, and supporting developer communities across Europe. In his free time, he loves running! Specifically, running a podcast (The Developers' Bakery - all about Open source) and running Marathons!
Bassem Dghaidi
Bassem Dghaidi
GitHub, Netherlands
Bassem Dghaidi enjoys solving hard problems in internet scale distributed systems and takes pride in abolishing organisational inefficiencies and adopting a cross-disciplined approach to problem solving. Bassem is a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub, where he is currently focused on building the next generation of GitHub Actions. With a career spanning over 15 years, Bassem worked across various industries, including TechEd, car manufacturing, FinTech, transportation and logistics. In a previous role, Bassem worked closely with some of the largest corporate customers and Fortune 500 companies as a trusted advisor. He helped these enterprises optimise their software development lifecycle and adopt DevOps best practices. Apart from his work at GitHub, Bassem is passionate about empowering the next generation of technologists. He was a founding member of SE Factory, a technical career accelerator that has become Lebanon’s leading training program for aspiring software engineers. Bassem is also an active podcaster and content creator sharing his technical and career-related insights on major social media platforms.
Solange Gueiros
Solange Gueiros
Chainlink Labs, Brazil
Blockchain educator and developer focused on Ethereum, smart contracts and Bitcoin. MSc in digital currencies. She has been working with technology for over 20 years. Speaker at world conferences since 2018, also she won awards at Ethereum hackathons. Co-founder ETHSamba. She was listed in Cointelegraph Brazil top 50 and top 2 women.
Abdelrahman Awad
Abdelrahman Awad
Octopods, Egypt
I'm a senior frontend engineer @octopodsio based in Cairo, Egypt. I created vee-validate for Vue.js and when not working I play video games and I started to learn to play the bass.
Philip Lakin
Philip Lakin
Zapier, USA
Philip Lakin is the Head of Enterprise Innovation at Zapier, following the acquisition of NoCodeOps by Zapier. As the co-founder and CEO of NoCodeOps, a community and automation management platform, he dedicated his efforts to empowering operations professionals to transform internal processes using no-code solutions. Previously, he served as the Solutions Architect for National Operations at Compass, where he built the onboarding program for over 15,000 real estate agents across the United States. Philip has more than 8 years of experience in operations, internal system implementation, field marketing, and onboarding. Fun fact: Before his tech career, Philip was an actor featured in "Law and Order," films at the Cannes and Tribeca Film Festivals, and various off-off-off Broadway shows that you’ve never heard of (and never will).
Alex Kyriakidis
Alex Kyriakidis
Vue School, Netherlands
Alex has been an award-winning web developer for 12 years. He authored the first book on Vue.js in 2016 and is one of the first Vue.js educators in the world. He founded vueschool.io where he's teaching Vue and JavaScript to web developers through video courses along with many core members and industry leaders.
Vishwa Mehta
Vishwa Mehta
The Graph, India
Data Science, React and GraphQL enthusiast. Python, JS developer turned Technical Writer. Community builder and aspiring Developer Advocate.
TJ VanToll
TJ VanToll
Progress, USA
TJ VanToll is a front-end developer, author, and a Principal Developer Advocate for Progress. TJ has over a decade of web development experience, including a few years working on the jQuery and NativeScript teams. Nowadays, he helps web developers build awesome UIs with KendoReact.
Michał Pierzchała
Michał Pierzchała
Callstack, Poland
Head of Technology at Callstack. Passionate about building mobile and web experiences, high quality JS tooling and Open Source. Core React Native Community & Jest contributor. Space exploration enthusiast.
Aakansha Doshi
Aakansha Doshi
Open-source, India
Aakansha is passionate about Free and open-source software (FOSS) and loves deep diving into the internals of Web and Javascript. She is a core maintainer of excalidraw, react-tags, mermaid-to-excalidraw, and more. She also leads the FOSS meetups in Bangalore, India. Beyond her tech interests, she is a big foodie, loves traveling, and spending quality time with her family.
Ulises Gascón
Ulises Gascón
NodeSource, Spain
Ulises Gascón is a Senior SWE at NodeSource. He is also a member of the Express Technical Committee (TC), a Node.js core collaborator and releaser, and a TC39 delegate. He has earned recognition as a Docker Captain, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), and Google Developer Expert (GDE) for his noteworthy contributions to the Node.js community.
Brad Westfall
Brad Westfall
ReactTraining, USA
Brad Westfall has been teaching Web Development since 2010 including bootcamp instruction, online videos, conference speaking, writing at CSS-Tricks.com, and corporate training for ReactTraining.com. He loves to connect with students by helping them achieve their technical goals and by distilling complex concepts into simple instruction.
Maya Shavin
Maya Shavin
Microsoft, Israel
Maya is Senior Software Engineer in Microsoft, working extensively with JavaScript and frontend frameworks and based in Israel. She founded and is currently the organizer of the VueJS Israel Meetup Community, helping to create a strong playground for Vue.js lovers and like-minded developers. Maya is also a published author, international speaker and an open-source library maintainer of frontend and web projects. As a core maintainer of StorefrontUI framework for e-commerce, she focuses on delivering performant components and best practices to the community while believing a strong Vanilla JavaScript knowledge is necessary for being a good web developer.
Lizz Parody
Lizz Parody
NodeSource, Colombia
Lizz is a community-taught Software Engineer focused on JavaScript. She organizes different community events such as JSConf Colombia, Pioneras Developers, Startup Weekend and has been a speaker at EmpireJS, MedellinJS, PionerasDev, Node+JS Interactive, NodeConf and others. She loves sharing knowledge, promoting JavaScript and Node.js ecosystem and participating in key tech events and conferences to enhance her knowledge and network.
Luca Casonato
Luca Casonato
Deno, Netherlands
I'm a developer and open source enthusiast. I like Rust, Go, TypeScript, and fast websites. I work at the Deno company, building Deno and Deno Deploy, and serving as a delegate at TC39.
Maggie Johnson-Pint
Maggie Johnson-Pint
Microsoft, USA
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.
Uri Goldshtein
Uri Goldshtein
The Guild, Netherlands
Uri Goldshtein is the founder of The Guild, the largest open source group in the GraphQL ecosystem. They support large companies to go through successful technological transformations.
Herrington Darkholme
Herrington Darkholme
fun.xyz , USA
Frontend Vimmer. A Web Developer and Web Dev Tool Developer. Open Source with Rust/TypeScript. ast-grep is my hobby project!
John Leider
John Leider
Vuetify, USA
John Leider is the creator of Vuetify, a popular Material Design component framework for Vue. He is a full-time developer and the primary maintainer on the project.
Denis Radin
Denis Radin
GitNation Foundation, Netherlands
Mentorship available
Applying NASA coding guidelines to JavaScript since 2004, org @ReactSummit, @theJSNation, @ReactDayBerlin. WebGL, IDM, climbing, Google Dev Expert