JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Maish Saidel-Keesing is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS with over 20 years of trailblazing IT expertise. His visionary leadership in architecting intricate systems has driven industry evolution, with a keen focus on cloud, automation, and open-source solutions. Maish's mission to unify Developers and Operators has revolutionized operational harmony, erased silos, and mitigated disruptions. As a passionate advocate for automation, he propels efficient architectures, driving progress that enriches both technology and lives.

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.

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.

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.

Aurora Scharff is a DX Engineer at Vercel and the React Certification Lead at certificates.dev. She specializes in education and community engagement around React and Next.js, developing high-quality learning resources, creating demo applications, and speaking at conferences worldwide to support and advance modern web development practices.

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.

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.

I'm a web developer focused on pushing frontend beyond the ordinary, by creating better, more creative web experiences. I have decades of hands-on experience, a pathological curiosity about new technologies, and a constant desire to learn new things.

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.

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.

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.

Hey! 👋 I'm Erik Hanchett, published author of Vue.js in Action (Manning) and the Ember.js Cookbook. For over a decade I've taught hundreds of thousands of developers how to ship better code, building Program With Erik into a 100,000+ subscriber YouTube channel along the way. I've keynoted frontend talks on stages across the globe, and I now bring that expertise to millions of builders as a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Abdulrasaq Mustapha is a frontend engineer with 3+ years of experience designing and developing digital solutions for start-ups and businesses using web technologies. Outside of work, he is a tech content creator on YouTube.

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.

Nick is a Microsoft MVP, GitHub Star, Software Developer, and Developer Advocate. With over two decades in technology and a decade of open source contributions, plus five years of professional open source work at companies like OpenSauced, dev.to, and Netlify, he brings deep community knowledge to his work. You'll often find him live streaming tech content, either solo or with friends from the community.

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.

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.

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.