JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm a Senior Engineer based in Toronto, Canada. I work in the JavaScript SDK team at Sentry. I’m a GDE in Web Technologies. I created vee-validate and villus for Vue.js. I host the Untyped podcast. I write about Vue.js and the composition API and also TypeScript on my Blog. I am passionate about learning and teaching Vue.js and TypeScript.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.