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!

Bryan Hughes
Patreon, USA
Bryan Hughes is a staff frontend engineer at Patreon, long-time member of the Node.js and NodeBots communities, and tech activist.
Bryan is the creator of Raspi IO which provides Raspberry Pi support for the Johnny-Five JavaScript robotics library. Bryan also created RVL, a distributed wireless LED lighting system designed for festivals, Reduxology, a library that makes React+Redux easier to use, and Aquarium Control, a Raspberry Pi based system for controlling lights and monitoring temperature of his aquarium.
Outside of tech, Bryan is an active member of the LGTBQ community, a photographer, pianist, and a wine aficionado.

Slobodan Stojanović
Vacation Tracker, Serbia
Slobodan Stojanović is the CTO and co-founder of Vacation Tracker, an application that simplifies employee leave and absence management for organizations. He is based in Belgrade and is the JS Belgrade meetup co-organizer.
Slobodan is an AWS Serverless Hero, Claudia.js core team member, and co-author of the “Serverless Applications with Node.js” book, published by Manning Publications.

Facundo Giuliani
Storyblok, Argentina
Among the different things that Facundo enjoys, some of them are meeting and connecting with other people, web development, and talking a lot. After more than 12 years working as a developer, creating products and projects for different organizations and clients, he thought it would be great to combine those three interests in some way. In his search of ways to handle that, he discovered the world of Developer Relations. Nowadays, Facundo works as a DevRel Engineer at Storyblok, and he spends his time engaging with the dev community, speaking at events and conferences, creating and sharing content, writing articles for different websites and platforms, leading workshops, and talking (of course). He is one of the organizers of React Buenos Aires, the biggest React community in Argentina. He has been selected Prisma Ambassador, Auth0 Ambassador, and Cloudinary Media Developer Expert.

Colin Ihrig
Node.js Technical Steering Committee, USA
Member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee & a hapi core team member.
Colin Ihrig is a software engineer working primarily with Node.js. He is the author of Pro Node.js for Developers, and co-author of Full Stack JavaScript Development with MEAN.
Andrew Branch
Microsoft, USA
Andrew joined the TypeScript team at Microsoft in 2019. As a former frontend developer, one day he looked too closely at the differences between Node and bundlers and has been falling down the rabbit hole of JavaScript modules ever since. He's currently on a quixotic mission to fix every npm package with arethetypeswrong.github.io—or at least fix a few while leaving behind some good documentation.

William Lyon
Neo4j, USA
William Lyon is a Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j where he helps developers be successful with graphs. Prior to joining Neo4j William worked as a software developer for several startups, building mobile apps, quantitative finance tools, and predictive API services. William holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Montana and is the author of the book "Full Stack GraphQL" published by Manning. You can find him online at [lyonwj.com](http://lyonwj.com/).

Kamal Shree
Microsoft, India
Developer Advocate @Microsoft, Google Developer Expert in Flutter & Dart with 14 years of experience in Web Technologies, Android, Flutter, HarmonyOS and Microsoft M365. I have worked for multinational firms in India, the Netherlands, and the USA. I am a Women Techmakers Ambassador!, Youtuber (whatsupcoders), Mentor @MentorCruise, and Open-Source Community Builder.

Lazar Nikolov
Sentry, Canada
Lazar Nikolov is a Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Sentry, where he spends most of his time trying to figure out the best way to help people ship software that doesn’t end up totally slow or broken. He’s passionate about web performance, developer tooling, and helping people understand software architecture. He enjoys simplifying complex tech topics on his YouTube channel - and occasionally riffs Tool songs on guitar.

Jemima Abu
Telesoftas, Nigeria/Lithuania
Jemima Abu is a self-taught Front End Developer and school-taught Systems Engineer from Lagos, Nigeria.
She currently works at Telesoftas, a software company based in Lithuania. She is an avid advocate for diversity and intersectionality in technology and accessibility in web development.
She's also a huge nerd, slightly obsessed with cats and can usually be found on her laptop, coding or watching slice-of-life anime.

Tiffany Jachja
Harness, USA
Tiffany Jachja is a technical evangelist at Harness. She is an advocate for better software delivery, sharing applicable practices, stories, and content around modern technologies. Before joining Harness, Tiffany was a consultant with Red Hat's Consulting practice. There she used her experience to help customers build their software applications living in the cloud.

Lisi Linhart
Storyblok, Austria
Lisi a Principal Frontend Architect at Storyblok. Her previous experiences include teaching web developement at an university as well as working on various websites and applications. She loves to be involved in the community, organized a conference and often speak at conferences about the web.

Akash Hamirwasia
ElevenLabs, India
Akash is a frontend engineer at ElevenLabs who loves building innovative products on the web with great user experiences. He is currently building his video creation product – Slant it and also maintains various open-source projects like Blaze, Vyaakaran, etc. His recent fascination has been creating highly dynamic user interfaces and WebGL. Akash is always open to talk about engineering, UI design and building great products.

Sandrina Pereira
Remote, Portugal
Sandrina is a Frontend Engineer who helps turn ideas into accessible experiences.
Within the React ecosystem, she’s been shrinking the gap between Engineering and Product design. Currently she’s doing that at Remote as a Team Leader. Along the journey, she’s has been raising awareness of why Web Accessibility is part of our duties as web creators.

Natalie Lambert
GenEdge Consulting, USA
Natalie Lambert, Founder & Managing Partner at GenEdge Consulting, is a leader driving innovation in marketing through generative AI. Her journey into the world of AI began at Google, where she initiated AI pilot projects across the organization to identify practical use cases, tools, and strategies to enhance Google's marketing efforts. Natalie also led the content strategy at Google Cloud, held CMO positions in two successful enterprise startups, and worked at Citrix in various marketing capacities. Her career began at Forrester Research, where she advised companies on tech investments and best practices.









