JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

David Burns, heads the Open Source office at BrowserStack. He is also a core contributor to the Selenium project and Chair for the W3C Browser Testing and Tools Working Group.

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.

Stefan Baumgartner is a software architect based in Austria and the owner of oida.dev. He is the author of “TypeScript in 50 Lessons”, published by Smashing Magazine, and "The TypeScript Cookbook", published by O'Reilly. He organizes ScriptConf, DevOne, and Rust Linz, and co-hosts the German-language Working Draft podcast. Stefan enjoys Italian food, Belgian beer, and British vinyl records.

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.

Alex is a Developer Relations engineer at VoidZero, a Nuxt.js Team member, Web Engineering Consultant, and open-source enthusiast. He creates tech-focused video content, co-hosts the DejaVue Podcast, speaks at conferences, and leads workshops to empower developers and advance the web ecosystem.

Carolina is always exploring new paths and looking for new perspectives for solving problems. As a computer scientist working at Briza, she loves to work in challenging industries, like insurance. She believes that everyone is responsible for making the tech environment safer and diverse. Pasta maker, coffee enthusiast and book lover.

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.

Elizabet Oliveira, a former hip-hop artist and now a design engineer at Xata, is known for combining creativity and design in open-source projects. She created the award-winning React-Kawaii library and was the lead designer for "Elastic UI," a popular design system at Elastic. Famous for her unique presentations, including her "Fork this" rap song, Elizabet aims to bridge the gap between front-end development and design.

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.

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.

David is a design engineer and creator of React Bits, building animated, highly customizable React components and contributing actively to open source tools that help developers build faster and more creatively.

VP of delivery at This Dot Labs, Vue Js guru, JS lover, A11y fan, PWA explorer, @gitKraken Ambassador, book author and super dad.

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.

GraphQL co-creator, Facebook engineering director

Barry Pollard is a Web Performance Developer Advocate in the Google Chrome team, working on Core Web Vitals and the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX). He is one of the maintainers of the HTTP Archive and it's annual Web Almanac publication. He's also the author of HTTP/2 in Action from Manning Publications.

Ben Vinegar is a Toronto-based engineer and founder who has spent his career building developer tools and leading engineering teams. He helped grow Sentry into one of the most widely used developer platforms, and now leads Modem, a new venture exploring how AI can assist coding and product development. Co-author of Third-Party JavaScript (O’Reilly) and long-time writer on developer experience, performance, and tooling.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kim is a Developer Relations and Developer Experience leader and strategist, JS engineer, and identity and security standards stickler. She enjoys teaching, mentoring, and learning from folks in the product technology space. Kim is the Senior Director of Developer Relations at FusionAuth and is a Google Developer Expert in Identity. She loves to travel, overland cross-country, design stickers, and craft miniatures and artisan keycaps for mechanical keyboards.

Floor is an open source advocate, currently most active in the PostgreSQL community. She's a Principal Program Manager at EDB, a PostgreSQL Code of Conduct Committee member, Devopsdays Core co-chair, and one of the organizers of Devopsdays Amsterdam and PGDay Lowlands.

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.