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!
Ankita Kulkarni
Ankita Kulkarni
Tech Educator, Canada
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.
Krzysztof Cieślak
Krzysztof Cieślak
GitHub Next, Co-creator of Copilot, Poland
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.
Sylwia Vargas
Sylwia Vargas
Inngest, UK
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
Krasimir Tsonev
Antidote.me, Bulgaria
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.
Radoslav Stankov
Radoslav Stankov
Angry Building, Bulgaria
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.
Gil Tayar
Gil Tayar
Microsoft, Israel
35 years of experience have not dulled the fascination Gil Tayar has with software development. His passion is distributed systems and figuring out how to scale development to big teams. Extreme modularity and testing are the main tools in his toolbelt, using them to combat the code spaghetti monster at companies like Wix, Applitools, and at his current job as software engineer at Microsoft.
Szymon Rybczak
Szymon Rybczak
Callstack, Poland
I'm 17 years old React Native Developer at Callstack. I'm the youngest ever React Native contributor, and React Native CLI maintainer
Braydon Coyer
Braydon Coyer
LogicGate, USA
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.
Hemanth HM
Hemanth HM
PayPal, USA
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.
Michael Bromley
Michael Bromley
Vendure, Austria
I've been building for the web for over 15 years - mainly focusing on e-commerce applications, content management and open source. Now I'm building Vendure, an open-source headless commerce framework with a focus on developer productivity. I strongly believe in the mission to bring joy through great developer experience and open source tools. I'm originally from England but for the past 8 years I've been based in beautiful Vienna, Austria.
Roman Pronskiy
Roman Pronskiy
JetBrains, Netherlands
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.
Lenz Weber-Tronic
Lenz Weber-Tronic
Apollo GraphQL, Germany
Lenz Weber-Tronic works as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Apollo GraphQL, where he is part of the team maintaining the Apollo TypeScript Client. He is a maintainer of Redux Toolkit and if he’s not currently trying to summon elder gods with weird TypeScript incantations he can usually be found on StackOverflow answering questions on Apollo and Redux usage or opening random PRs on GitHub.
Ruben Casas
Ruben Casas
Postman, UK
Software Engineer and Architect. Currently building Micro Frontends Frameworks At American Express. I enjoy exploring new technologies and sharing my experiences with others.
Tim Benniks
Tim Benniks
Uniform, France
Tim is principal developer advocate at Uniform with a focus on developer relations, community building, and content creation. He’s active in the developer community through speaking engagements at conferences and creation of YouTube videos on modern technologies. Tim collaborates regularly with startups like Cloudinary, Prismic, Zeplin, and NuxtJS, and is a member of the MACH Alliance Tech Council. It's all about quality, community, and development of great websites.
Alex Trost
Alex Trost
Prismic, USA
Alex is a teacher who wants to make learning web development easier and more fun for everyone. He’s working on the Developer Experience team at Prismic to make building React sites with a powerful backend easier than ever. Working in the JAMStack with any React framework is where Alex is happiest. He also teaches creative coding techniques on his site, Frontend Horse.
Dmitry Kovalenko
Dmitry Kovalenko
LightSource.ai, your node_modules
Software engineer that have been doing react for years (I was material ui contribute for a while) and now passionate about Rust, OCaml and pure C. Love performant, robust and pretty applications and trying do deliver them on a regular basis :)
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Scott Vinkle
Scott Vinkle
Shopify, Canada
Scott is an accessibility specialist at Shopify. He spends his days auditing web properties and native apps, reviewing code, and discussing inclusive design principles with designers, developers, content authors, partners, support, and legal teams. In his spare time Scott runs an online store and writes about web accessibility at ScottVinkle.me. He also enjoys snowboarding in the winter and mountain biking in the summer. He lives in Ajax ON with his wife and two children.
Andrew Reddikh
Andrew Reddikh
Redco, UK
Passionate software engineer with expertise in software development, microservice architecture, and cloud infrastructure. On daily basis, I use Node.js, TypeScript, Golang, and DevOps best practices to build a better tech world by contributing to open source projects.
Cedric van Putten
Cedric van Putten
Expo, Netherlands
Cedric is an engineer at Expo, primarily focusing on devtooling and developer experience. If you interacted with the Expo CLI, tried to set up a monorepo, used the Expo Tools vscode extension, tried out a Snack, or found Expo Atlas, you've already used some of his work.
Dan Vanderkam
Dan Vanderkam
Google, USA
Dan Vanderkam is the author of Effective TypeScript (O'Reilly 2019) and a Principal Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. He previously worked on open source genome visualizations at Mt. Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine and on search features used by billions of users at Google (try "population of france" or "sunset nyc"). He has a long history of working on open source projects, including the popular dygraphs library and source-map-explorer, a tool for visualizing JavaScript code size. He is also a co-founder of the NYC TypeScript meetup and blogs at effectivetypescript.com. When he's not programming, Dan enjoys playing bridge and climbing rocks near his home in New York's Hudson Valley.
Filip Hric
Filip Hric
Replay.io, Slovakia
Filip Hric is a DevRel at Replay.io He teaches testers about web development and developers about testing. Filip has a Cypress.io ambassador, leads a “Learn Cypress.io” community on Discord and has a blog at filiphric.com where he publishes Cypress.io tips. He’s an international keynote speaker and leading expert on test automation in Cypress.io. As author and instructor of live Cypress workshop, he has taught hundreds of testers and developers about good practices and advanced concepts for testing in Cypress. Enjoys running, playing guitar and spending time with his wife and four children.
Anthony Eden
Anthony Eden
DNSimple, USA
Founder of DNSimple, vendor of duct tape, purveyor of UDP packets. Erlang. Elixir. Golang. Ruby. Java. JavaScript. Surf. Snowboard. Living life to its fullest.
Jamie Birch
Jamie Birch
Scoville, Japan
Jamie is a hobbyist cross-platform developer who likes exploring how we can make native app development more like web development.