JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Nicola Corti is a Google Developer Expert for Android. He is the maintainer of Detekt and several other open-source libraries and tools for mobile developers. He's currently working in the React Native Core team at Meta, building one of the most popular cross-platform mobile framework. Furthermore, he is an active member of the developer community. His involvement goes from speaking at international conferences to being a member of CFP committees and supporting developer communities across Europe. In his free time, he also loves podcasting and running.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nikolay Advolodkin is the Founder and Chief Engineer of UltimateQA, a community of 150,000+ developers in 190+ countries. He focuses on AI-assisted test automation and CI/CD, turning prototypes into reliable, auditable production workflows. A frequent speaker and educator, he shares step-by-step practices teams can apply immediately.

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.

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.

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.

Ido Salomon is a seasoned AI lead and cloud architect, working on AI in Monday's CEO Office. In his spare time, Ido is the creator of AgentCraft and MCP-UI, co-author and moderator of the MCP Apps workgroup, and co-creator of GitMCP. Previously, Ido led end-user AI at Palo Alto Networks. He's an avid contributor to open-source, having created several impactful projects in the agentic AI space.

My name is Erik Hanchett! I'm an author, teach and educator. I've been teaching software development for over 10 years on my YouTube channel, Program With Erik. I've also have given talks all over the world on frontend and fullstack development. Currently I work as a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Peter is a co-founder of DBOS, helping you build reliable software effortlessly. He loves databases and distributed systems a little too much, so he did a PhD in them, working with Matei Zaharia and Peter Bailis at Stanford.

Sean's been convinced there are better ways to develop applications across the stack for years, and built time-traveling debuggers, interface builders, layout tools, and graphic design tools in his quest to explore the space. Before leading Netlify Graph, he ran engineering at PayGarden, and participated in Y-Combinator twice - once in 2011, and again in 2018.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Anthony is Turbo DX at Vercel, helping developers build faster workflows using Turborepo and Turbopack. He loves helping individuals and teams at all scales succeed, teaching monorepos, and thinking about the future of CI/CD. He used to play professional baseball but now he's a full-stack comedian. For more on Anthony, visit. shew.dev.