JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

John Leider is the creator of Vuetify, a popular Material Design component framework for Vue. He is a full-time developer and the primary maintainer on the project.

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).

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.

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 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.

Applying NASA coding guidelines to JavaScript since 2004, org @ReactSummit, @theJSNation, @ReactDayBerlin. WebGL, IDM, climbing, Google Dev Expert

Data Science, React and GraphQL enthusiast. Python, JS developer turned Technical Writer. Community builder and aspiring Developer Advocate.

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.

Senior Developer & Dev Advocate @VueStorefront • Ambassador @nuxt_js, @Storyblok, @algolia • Sharing knowledge about Nuxt / Vue / Perf.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Joyee is a software engineer at Igalia. She likes tinkering with V8/Node.js to improve their developer experience, stability and performance. She is a V8 committer and a member of the Node.js TSC.

Nikolas is passionate about teaching other developers. He currently works at Prisma as a Developer Advocate to help make developers more successful when they need to work with databases in their applications.

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.

GraphQL Enthusiast, Speaker, Platform Interface Engineer @ GitHub Book author https://book.productionreadygraphql.com/ GraphQl.FM Twitch channel host - twitch.tv/graphqlfm

Eloy is a serial open-sourcerer, author of CocoaPods, and engineer at Microsoft working on their React Native efforts. Previously at Artsy.net he oversaw the adaptation of React Native in Artsy’s flagship iOS app.

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.

Jo is a Software Engineer and Developer Advocate at PayPal. She is passionate about improving developer experience, advocating for TypeScript and teaching good use of the web. She mentors junior developers, advocates a lot for mental health awareness and is devoted to improving the diversity and inclusivity of the tech industry.