JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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!

Data Science, React and GraphQL enthusiast. Python, JS developer turned Technical Writer. Community builder and aspiring Developer Advocate.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Developer Relations Engineer at Kadena. With 14 years of diverse Software Engineering experience spanning Frontend, Fullstack, 3D, and blockchain. Love smooth UIs with clear infographics and mind-blowing 3D effects. As an active community member, Vasilika organized meetups, conferences and currently co-organizing LuxembourgJS events. Recognized as a Google Developer Expert, she is also taught at various web schools. Beyond tech, Vasilika passionate about traveling, diving, gaming, cinema, and animals. She also enjoys collecting children's books from around the world and cute Christmas tree decorations.

Eloy is a serial open-sourcerer, author of CocoaPods, and engineer at Microsoft working on their React Native efforts. Previously at Artsy.net he oversaw the adaptation of React Native in Artsy’s flagship iOS app.

Applying NASA coding guidelines to JavaScript since 2004, org @ReactSummit, @theJSNation, @ReactDayBerlin. WebGL, IDM, climbing, Google Dev Expert

GraphQL Enthusiast, Speaker, Platform Interface Engineer @ GitHub Book author https://book.productionreadygraphql.com/ GraphQl.FM Twitch channel host - twitch.tv/graphqlfm

Tara Z. Manicsic has spent her career using JavaScript on both back-end and front-end to try to help make coding the web a happy place for devs. She is currently working to bring Angular into the Jamstack at Netlify as a Developer Experience Engineer. As an international technical speaker and workshop leader, she conveys all she has learned while delivering horrible jokes. Tara is a lifelong student, teacher, and maker (crafts, IoT projects, tiny humans, and more). She lives in a house down by the river and hopes to meet you soon!

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.

Alex is a web engineering consultant and Nuxt team member in his twenties. When he's not working on open-source projects, he's busy giving talks, writing blogs, shooting educational videos and assisting companies with their projects, offering guidance and support with a focus on Nuxt and Vue.js.

Chris is a Twitch streamer and YouTuber that just loves to build things. As a self-preofessed programming language polyglot, you can watch him bring ideas from thought to reality in languages such as JS/TS, Rust, Elixir, Go, and more. If it is winter time, he would probably rather be snowboarding.