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!
Talia Nassi
Talia Nassi
AWS, USA
Talia Nassi is an international keynote speaker who delivers content on all things testing and quality. She is a developer advocate at Split.io where she works closely with engineering teams globally to ship software more efficiently. She is passionate about feature flagging, canary launches, CI/CD, testing in production, and A/B testing. She has spoken at countless conferences internationally, ranging from audiences of 100 to 4000!
Anthony Shew
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.
Maxi Ferreira
Maxi Ferreira
Help Scout, Los Angeles, California
Maxi is a full-stack software engineer with a passion for creating delightful user experiences. He works at Help Scout as a Staff Frontend Engineer, specializing in frontend architecture, web performance, and third-party application development. Originally from Buenos Aires, Maxi now lives in Los Angeles, CA with his wife, two daughters, and two dogs.
Zoltan Kochan
Zoltan Kochan
Bit, Hungary
Lead maintainer of pnpm since 2016, which started as a completely independent open-source package manager for JavaScript. Zoltan is an engineer at Bit. He works on the dependency management aspect of the Bit CLI. Previously worked at JustAnswer, where Zoltan was mainly working on front-end infrastructure.
Carmen Huidobro
Carmen Huidobro
Directus, Austria
Carmen Huidobro is a developer advocate and dev education enthusiast. She thrives on lifting others up in their tech careers and loves a good CSS challenge. Always excited to talk about teaching tech, especialmente en Español, oder auf Deutsch.
Maël Nison
Maël Nison
Datadog, France
Maël is a distinguished software engineer, recognized for his contributions to the tech industry. He is currently the lead maintainer for Yarn, a popular JavaScript package manager. Maël's expertise extends across multiple domains, but he specializes in front-end development, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Known for his practical and innovative solutions, Maël's work has been integral to improving JavaScript's ecosystem. Apart from his professional achievements, Maël is a passionate advocate for open source projects and contributes to various initiatives.
Travis Arnold
Travis Arnold
souporserious, USA
Designer turned engineer obsessed with building UI systems that scale.
Harminder Virk
Harminder Virk
Medusa, India
Harminder Virk is a senior software engineer at Medusa. He has been actively involved in the open-source ecosystem for over a decade and has developed several widely used libraries, including VineJS, Youch, the Edge templating engine, and the AdonisJS framework.
Jimmy Lai
Jimmy Lai
Vercel, Germany
Jimmy is a Software Engineer at Vercel living in Munich, Germany. Previously at Meta, where he worked on web perf and React Native, he's currently in the Next.js team, working again on performance and other things.
Jamie Barton
Jamie Barton
Dev Rel @ Turso
Working with Databases, APIs, GraphQL and Web3
Jason Laster
Jason Laster
Replay.io, USA
Jason is a JS time traveler, DevTools dev, and recent dad exploring the joys of fatherhood.
Juho Vepsäläinen
Juho Vepsäläinen
Toska osk., Finland
Mentorship available
Juho Vepsäläinen is behind the SurviveJS effort. He has been active in the open source scene since the early 2000s and participated in projects like Blender and webpack as a core team member. Blue Arrow Awards winner.
Seth Webster
Seth Webster
Meta, USA
Head of React @ Meta
Ethan Arrowood
Ethan Arrowood
Microsoft, USA
Open source maintainer for Fastify. Software Engineer at Microsoft. Loves hiking and skiing.
Alex Lakatos
Alex Lakatos
Interledger Foundation, UK
Alex has spent the past 11 years working on the Open Web within Browser, Communications, and FinTech organizations. With a background in web technologies and developer advocacy, he's helped organizations build developer-friendly products while engaging with the developer community at large. As the new Technology Lead for the Interledger Foundation, he focuses on lowering the barrier to entry into the Interledger ecosystem and drive the adoption of the web standards powering the Interledger protocol. An avid traveller, it's likely you'll bump into him at developer conferences around the world.
François Best
François Best
47ng, France
Hi! I’m a freelance web developer from France. After a career in the audio industry, I moved to the web because of how fast it allowed me to build, iterate, and ship great user experiences. React has been a major part of this success story. I’ve also been building and maintaining open-source software since 2007, from bare metal to the cloud, with libraries for React, Next.js, Fastify & Prisma. I love the open sharing of code we find useful, and the community it creates around it.
Markus Oberlehner
Markus Oberlehner
karriere.at GmbH, Austria
Software Architect @ karriere.at – Crafting resilient and sustainable software solutions. Professional Web Developer for 12 years. I specialize in Vue.js and am a strong advocate for Test-Driven Development.
Grgur Grisogono
Grgur Grisogono
Modus Create, Croatia
Grgur is Director, Engineering at Modus Create and also your friendly neighborhood JavaScript engineer who loves connecting business with technology. Grgur loves telling stories and anecdotes, fueled by the experience of working with dozens of Fortune 1000 companies since 2005. He also enjoys talking about sourdough baking, latte art, and brean-to-bar craft chocolate.
Mat Groves
Mat Groves
Goodboy Digital, UK
Creative coder, all about Javascript, WebGL and optimisation. Creator of PixiJS.
Amy Dutton
Amy Dutton
Ah Ha Creative, USA
Amy has over 22+ years of web experience and have expertise in product design, frontend, and backend development. She's developed multiple technology courses and written curriculum for the University of Florida, in their Master’s program. She has spoken at conferences around the world about full stack development. Her podcast, http://Compressed.fm supports thousands of developers with design and engineering tips. She has built hundreds of websites and products for enterprise companies, startups, and even major recording artists. She lives in Nashville, TN with her husband, 3 adorable children, and 2 dogs.
Sharone Zitzman
Sharone Zitzman
RTFM Please, Israel
I'm a marketing technologist and open source community builder, who likes to work with engineering teams that are building products that developers love. Having built both the DevOps Israel and Cloud Native Israelcommunities from the ground up, today I spend my time finding the places where technology and people intersect and ensuring that this is an excellent experience. You can find my talks, articles, and employment experience at rtfmplease.dev.
Gregor Ojstersek
Gregor Ojstersek
Engineering Leadership newsletter, Slovenia
Gregor is an engineering leader with 12+ years of experience in the engineering industry. In his career, he grew as an engineer to Senior Software Engineer and after to Lead roles (Team Lead to Engineering Manager to Head of Engineering to VP of Engineering to CTO). And now he is helping people and teams/companies to thrive with Fractional/Interim CTO roles, tech advising, coaching and mentoring. He is also writing one of the fastest growing newsletters for engineers and managers called Engineering Leadership newsletter.
Zack DeRose
Zack DeRose
Narwhal Technologies, USA
Zack DeRose is Senior Engineer for Narwhal Technologies, where he works to build a better world through tech! In addition to the enterprise consulting done at Narwhal, Zack is very interested in content creation and teaching others! When not building web applications at scale, Zack enjoys a robust family life at scale, living in Phoenix AZ with his wife and 6 kids.
Ioana Chiorean
Ioana Chiorean
Interledger Foundation, Germany
Ioana is an engineer manager flavored in communities, and devrel, that has more than 12 years of experience in tech with a specialization in mobile apps and web. Sr. Engineering Manager at Interledger Foundation. She is the Module Owner for Mozilla Reps, one of the alumni of MozTechSpeakers, and stands as an ambassador for CodeWeek at the European Commission. In her free time, she contributes to Open Source and different volunteering programs, while enjoying a coffee or a good wine.