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!
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.
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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Talha Naqvi
Talha Naqvi
Shopify, Canada
Development Manager on the Retail Dev Accelerate team.
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.
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.
Daniel Kelly
Daniel Kelly
Vue School, USA
Daniel Kelly is a Vue School teacher from Alabama, USA. He is a passionate web developer for over 10 years. Enjoys talking about Vue, Nuxt and Laravel and sharing coding tips he picked up along the way with fellow devs.
Aurora Scharff
Aurora Scharff
Crayon Consulting, Norway
Aurora Scharff is a software developer and Microsoft MVP from Norway. She serves as a consultant at Crayon Consulting, while also contributing as React Certification Content Owner at certificates.dev. She focuses on web development with extensive experience in React and Next.js, including active use of React Server Components. Aurora shares her knowledge through workshops, technical blog posts, social media, demo applications, and supporting fellow developers. She regularly presents internationally at recognized conferences, contributing to the global developer community through both her speaking engagements and educational content creation.
Jonathan Bakebwa
Jonathan Bakebwa
rct.ai, China
Jonathan Bakebwa is the creator and maintainer of Chakra UI Vue, a component library focused on making accessible Vue.js websites and applications fast. Jonathan is also an Engineering Manager at rct.ai as well as the co-founder of the Vue Beijing Meetup in China. He has also authored Vue.js utility libraries in the Vue ecosystem and is currently building the next version of Chakra UI Vue. When he is not coding, Jonathan enjoys playing the guitar, reading and learning about startups.
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.
Akash Joshi
Akash Joshi
SigTech, UK
A Senior Software Engineer at SigTech, Akash is a self-taught programmer who started his journey from playing video games to developing them. Spending the last year building software at Meta, he's now helping build apps at a rapid speed through the power of React and Typescript.
David Blass
David Blass
ArkType, USA
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!
David Mytton
David Mytton
Arcjet, USA
David Mytton is currently building Arcjet, a product to help developers protect their apps. He also writes the console.dev weekly devtools newsletter which reviews the most interesting tools for developers. In addition, David is pursuing a PhD in engineering science & sustainable computing at the University of Oxford. In the past, he co-founded Server Density, a cloud infrastructure monitoring startup which was acquired in 2018 by edge computing platform, StackPath.
Evan Weaver
Evan Weaver
Fauna, USA
CTO and co-founder of Fauna.
Theodore Vorillas
Theodore Vorillas
Proxima Analytics, Greece
I’m Theodore, a software engineer, educator and speaker based in Athens, Greece. I’m currently working as an independent engineer, helping companies build and promote their products. In the meantime, I’m also developing Proxima Analytics - an open source, privacy-first analytics platform.
Sarah Guthals
Sarah Guthals
Sentry, USA
Sarah Guthals is the Director of Developer Relations at Sentry. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC San Diego, her passion is to design content, software, and companies that focus on engaging developers in learning new skills, technologies, and tools to improve their developer workflow.
Oliver Medhurst
Oliver Medhurst
Porffor, United Kingdom
Creator of Porffor. TC39 and WinterTC invited expert.
Matt Carroll
Matt Carroll
Meta, USA
Matt Carroll works as a developer advocate on the React team at Meta. He is currently focused on collaborations with the community and server components. Before Meta, Matt worked in developer relations at Google.
Alexandre Moureaux
Alexandre Moureaux
BAM, France
Hi, I'm a tech lead at BAM where I've been developing React Native apps for 8 years. My obsession is mobile apps performance 🚀. I truly believe it's our responsibility to develop performant apps, as one way to fight against climate change!
Michael Bodnarchuk
Michael Bodnarchuk
Testomat.io, Ukraine
Michael is a full-stack web developer, passionate about testing from Kyiv, Ukraine. I also work as a consultant & trainer focused on testing. Michael works on open-source product CodeceptJS with a goal to bring a better testing experience to developers. Making testing as easy and as joyful as it could be is his motto.