JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Knut Melvær (b. 1985) is a graduate in the study of religion\s who has pivoted into technology. He is currently working as Head of Developer Relations at Sanity.io. Previously he has been a senior technology consultant at Netlife, a reknowned Norwegian UX- and Design Agency. Before that a PhD Fellow at the University of Bergen. As a technology consultant, he has held workshops in user research, technology strategy, and web development. He has been involved in projects with a wide range of clients such as Energi og Klima, NDLA, Enivest, Fearnley Offshore Supply, Norwegian Fund and Asset Management Association, Warner Music, De Bergenske Hotels, The Norwegian Government Agency for Financial Management, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, The City of Oslo, and Gjensidige. Knut has extensive experience in research, dissemination, teaching, and writing. He has organized and taught courses from undergraduate to graduate level at university. His fields of study have been quantiative and qualitative methodologies in the study of religion, the evolutionary and cognitive science of religion, new religiosity, and digital humanities. He has done podcast interviews of Holberg Prize laureates and been a columnist in newspapers like Klassekampen, Sysla, and Morgenbladet.

CEO Theatre.js, designing a design tool – blurring the line between designer/developer, author/consumer, and artist/scientist.

Cecelia Martinez is a Developer Advocate for Appflow at Ionic, a company that helps web developers build cross-platform applications using modern technology. She is dedicated to creating better, more inclusive developer experiences for all. Previous companies include Cypress and Replay, with areas of expertise including web & mobile development, testing, developer tools, and open source. She is a Lead Volunteer with Women Who Code FrontEnd, Chapter Head of Out in Tech Atlanta, and a GitHub Star.

David Blass is a full-time open source TypeScript developer and author of ArkType, a 1:1 validator for TypeScript. ArkType is the first validator to include a static parser that can infer TypeScript’s syntax as well as a full type system that can compare arbitrary pairs of types for assignability and automatically discriminate unions. Predictably, David loves parsers and types, but also bow ties and his wife’s vegan cooking. He lives with her and their 5 pets in Boston, Massachusetts, and is currently pursuing funding to continue working on ArkType full-time!

Creator of Porffor. TC39 and WinterTC invited expert.

Marie is currently a Developer Advocate at k6.io, a Grafana Labs company. In the past, she has been an Engineering Manager, a Principal Engineer and a Test Consultant. She is also a tech blogger at testingwithmarie.com, an accessibility advocate and an online course instructor at Ministry of Testing and Test Automation University.

Creative Engineer, passionate about Front-end Development and sharing knowledge. Open source contributor on VueJS and Nuxt related projects. Learning 3D modelling and WebGL. Storyblok Ambassador. Lead of micheladas. I love penguins.

Ruben Casas is a Staff Engineer at Postman, specialising in micro-frontends and large-scale frontend applications. He loves tackling complex architectural problems and providing pragmatic solutions to hard engineering challenges.

Innocencia Ndembera is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Chip In Limited, a forward-thinking software engineering company committed to revolutionizing agriculture and financial inclusion in Malawi. With a passion for using technology to drive social impact, she leads initiatives like Sunga, a financial platform tailored for underserved communities, and Chip In Agriculture, a project that connects farmers with buyers for sustainable economic growth. As an advocate for women in tech, Innocencia also founded Women in Tech Malawi and serves as a Women Techmakers Ambassador, championing diversity and inclusion in the tech industry.

Web Game Developer and Technical Evangelist, Enclave Games indie studio founder, js13kGames competition creator, Gamedev.js community firestarter and Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter publisher. Excited about cutting-edge Web technologies like WebXR, Progressive Web Apps, and Web Monetization API. Likes eating sushi and playing Neuroshima Hex.

Ankita is an Creator Educator and Youtuber and creates educational content that helps developers level up in their careers such as her creates digital products such as her E-book on taking control of your first 90 days as an Engineering Leader, her courses on Next.js or Engineering Leadership. She has Taught 10,000+ students online. In the past, she has worked as a Senior Technical Leader, Solution Architect and Tech Lead. She has architected and scaled many web and mobile apps for clients using React, GraphQL, React Native and Next.js and Spent over 10+ years in Tech at the intersection of Front-end and Leadership.

VladimirNovick is the CTO & Co-Founder of EventLoopHQ, software architect, consultant, engineer and trainer, worldwide speaker, and published author.

Lead Frontend Developer and CSS Evangelist. Editor of the @webstandards_en frontend news feed. The 5th voice of the Web Standards weekly podcast. Google Developers Expert on web. The organizer of conferences and local meetups. Friendly beard.

Krzysztof is a photographer, globetrotter open-source maintainer, and public speaker. He works as a Senior Research Engineer at GitHub Next, where he designs and builds the next generation of developer tools such as GitHub Copilot. After the work, Krzysztof is an open-source software maintainer passionate about functional programming (especially F#), editor tooling and developer experience - he has created and maintained several OSS projects varying from language servers to web frameworks to VSCode plugins. Additionally, he is a passionate public speaker. You can meet him at many conferences around the world, where he is always trying to meet new people and learn how to make the lives of software developers better.

Tom is the Head of Developer Experience at Convex, which means he's the one to blame if your support tickets takes longer than 5 minutes to get a response. He also spends a lot of time talking with developers in order to better understand how to make Convex the fastest, most reliable and easy-to-use development platform on the planet. If you have any ideas, email him! Tom got into software engineering as a kid, and it's a passion that never left. His free time is spent reading programming books (no joke), and playing covers of 90s pop songs on his guitar while singing extremely loudly and beautifully.

Justin is the creator of [FormKit](https://formkit.com/), [ArrowJS](https://arrow-js.com), [AutoAnimate](https://auto-animate.formkit.com/), and [VueFormulate](https://vueformulate.com/). When he’s not working on open-source, Justin is a devoted husband, father of three boys, and connoisseur of all things aviation.

Ixchel Ruiz a DA @ JFrog has developed software applications and tools since 2000. Her research interests include Java, dynamic languages, client-side technologies, DevSecOps, and testing. A Java Champion, Groundbreaker Ambassador, CD Ambassador, Hackergarten enthusiast, open source advocate, public speaker, and mentor, Ixchel travels around the world (sometimes virtually) sharing knowledge—it’s one of her main drives in life.

Full-stack developer with 18+ years of experience, currently he is head of engineering at Product Hunt (owned by Angel List). In his spare time, he organizes React.NotAConf conference and React.Sofia meetup.

Sylwia (pronounced "Sylvia") is a developer advocate at Inngest, a tech writer, and an educator passionate about making tech accessible and diverse. She is a co-organizer at React Robins, a community for women and non-binary React devs. Aside from tech, she’s working on a card game and loves hiking, biking, pierogi, and plants.

Krasimir Tsonev is a coder with over 20 years of experience in web development. Author of books on JavaScript he works at Antidote.me where he helps people reaching clinical trials. Loves React and its ecosystem.

Braydon Coyer is a Senior Frontend Engineer at LogicGate, where he plays a key role in developing an automated Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platform. As a creative developer, blogger, and designer, he enjoys tinkering and sharing his projects with the public. Braydon lives in Texas with his wife and two daughters.

Roman is a Developer Advocate at JetBrains, ex- Product Marketing Manager for PhpStorm, and author of the PHP Annotated newsletter. He is passionate about PHP and Web development, tech, and electronic music. Had a hand in the establishment of The PHP Foundation and currently serve as its Board Member and Operations Manager. 📍 Originally from Kharkov, Ukraine, now reside in Amsterdam, NL.

TC39 delegate and ECMA rep, working on JavaScript feature proposals. Hemanth is a FOSS philosopher and MTS at PayPal Inc. Google Developer Expert for Web && Payments. DuckDuckGo community leader. Member of Node.js Foundation. Google Launchpad Accelerator mentor.

The creator of Q.js (a drag-and-drop quantum circuit composer) and Handy.js (a hand pose capture and recognition toolkit for WebXR). Stewart invents fun future things in collaboration with his amazing colleagues at Unity Technologies where he serves as Head of Consumer Augmented Reality. Prior to Unity, Stewart has worked with renowned hybrid studios like Google’s Data Arts Team, Google Creative Lab, Amazon’s Emerging Technologies and Intelligence Platforms team, and Unity Labs. Together with his talented teammates, he’s won industry awards like the Cannes Gold Lion, created a virtual reality music video for LCD Soundsystem, and collaborated with Ernő Rubik to create the “Beyond Rubik’s Cube” traveling exhibition. What really makes Stewart happy is partnering with smart friends to take on the impossible – or the ridiculous. Stewart received his Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Yale University. His artwork has been exhibited at various museums around the world, he’s taught graduate courses that mix code with graphic design, served on various industry panels, and is always excited about the future.