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!

Anthony Shew
Vercel, USA
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.

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.

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.

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
Salesforce, Israel
Maya is Lead Software Engineer in Salesforce, 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.

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.

JJ Kasper
Vercel, USA
JJ Kasper has spent the last six years working on Next.js at Vercel, working to build a better web. Passionate about open source and improving developer and user experiences, JJ enjoys building tools that make shipping great apps easier and faster. He's originally from Kansas but currently loving living in the bay area surrounded by amazing builders.

Vasilika Klimova
Cute Geek, Luxembourg
14+ years Software Engineer with diverse experience in Frontend, Fullstack, 3D, and blockchain, now focusing more on helping businesses grow and connect with their audience. Love smooth UIs with clear infographics and mind-blowing 3D effects. As an active community member, I've organised meetups, conferences and currently organising Lux Tech Pulse events. Recognised as a Google Developer Expert in Web and Microsoft Valuable Professional in development and security, I've also taught at various web schools. Beyond tech, I'm passionate about travelling, diving, gaming, cinema, and animals.

Kevin Whinnery
Deno, USA
Kevin Whinnery is the Head of Developer Relations for Deno, the new TypeScript and JavaScript runtime from the creator of Node.js. Kevin is a long-time web developer, teacher, and author to a number of successful open source projects like the twilio-node module, TerminalQuest, and several others best left in the dustbin of history (unless you need a SOAP API client). Kevin lives just outside Minneapolis, MN, where he will gladly point you to your favorite local cuisine upon request.

Nadia Makarevich
DeveloperWay, Australia
Nadia is a Frontend Architect, experienced coder and tech blogger. She loves debugging mysterious bugs, solving hard problems with simple solutions and writing articles, that make complicated advanced concepts easy to understand. She managed to escape from locked down Australia in the middle of the global pandemic and now enjoys the life of a digital nomad all over the world.

Rafael Gonzaga
NodeSource, Brazil
Rafael is a Principal Open Source Engineer at NodeSource and a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, where he works full-time on the Node.js runtime with a focus on security and performance.
His work spans runtime internals, benchmarking, and secure system design, with contributions to widely used tools in the Node.js ecosystem.

Chakit Arora
Storyblok, India
Chakit is a Full Stack Developer based in India, he is passionate about the web and likes to be involved in the community.
He is a Twitter space host, who likes to talk and write about technology. He is always excited to try out new technologies and frameworks.
He works as a Solutions Engineer at Storyblok.

Hidde de Vries
Web Standards Specialist, Netherlands
Hidde is a front-end, design systems and accessibility specialist (CPWA). He is also involved in the W3C’s Open UI Community Group, Web Sustainability Interest Group and Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. He strongly believes in a web that puts people first. Hidde writes about these things and more on hidde.blog. In his free time, he works on a coffee table book covering the video conferencing applications of our decade.







