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!

Jason Laster
Replay.io, USA
Jason is a JS time traveler, DevTools dev, and recent dad exploring the joys of fatherhood.

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.

Christopher Ehrlich
Axiom, Austria
Christopher is a Teacher turned Developer, obsessed with Frontend plumbing and DX. His goal is to help make it easier to create high quality web applications, by contributing to Open Source projects such as tRPC and Create T3 App, giving talks, and creating educational videos on YouTube.

Brooks Lybrand
Shopify, USA
I'm a Web Developer who specializes in building highly interactive, data-rich React applications. I've worked across the entire stack, and especially excel at creating tools that seamlessly connect users to data and models that make their lives easier and better.

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.

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.

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.

Mat Groves
Goodboy Digital, UK
Creative coder, all about Javascript, WebGL and optimisation. Creator of PixiJS.

Ethan Arrowood
Microsoft, USA
Open source maintainer for Fastify. Software Engineer at Microsoft. Loves hiking and skiing.

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.

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.

Theo Browne
Ping.gg, USA
Second best TypeScript YouTuber who happens to run dev tools company. Known primarily for memes, hot takes, and building useful things for devs such as UploadThing and the T3 Stack.

Alvaro Saburido
Storyblok, Spain
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.
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.

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.

Thomas Ballinger
Convex, USA
Tom Ballinger is a software engineer at Convex. He's taught compiler and computer architecture courses and facilitated at the Recurse Center primarily by goading people into writing BitTorrent clients. He's going to switch from vim to VSCode any day now.

Knut Melvær
Sanity.io, Norway
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.

Ankita Kulkarni
Tech Educator, Italy, Florence
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.

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.

Younes Jaaidi
Software Cook | Marmicode, France
Younes Jaaidi is a Software Cook who enjoys whipping code until tests pass.
Raised in the eXtreme Programming kitchen around 20 years ago, he now teaches and coaches teams — perhaps yours next — to cook better software using ingredients such as Test-Driven Development, Charted Coding, and Collective Ownership.
He's also an Angular Google Developer Expert, an Nx Champion, and a mediocre sailor.
His favorite spice: /charted-continue



