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!
Simon Emanuel Schmid
Edge & Node, Switzerland
Simon is enthusiastic about simplifying the complexities of our interconnected world. He applies this passion as a Lead Developer Relations Engineer at Edge & Node to enable the amazing projects in web3 building exceptional decentralised experiences leveraging The Graph. He joined the blockchain space professionally in 2017 as Head of Front-end/UX at Melonport which is now known as Enzyme Finance, one of the pioneering projects in DeFi and web3 and early adopter of The Graph.
Kathleen McMahon
Software Engineer, Designer & Conference Speaker, USA
Kathleen is a software engineer, designer, and conference speaker, who has deep industry experience that fuels her passion for making apps beautifully accessible. She’s a Color Module Specification Editor for the W3C Design Tokens Community Group. She is the Creative Director for the CXsisters network in her spare time and the best lanterne rouge cyclocrosser you’ll ever meet.
Vanessa Otto
Zavvy GmbH, Germany
Vanessa is a Web Developer. She has an M.Sc in Media Informatics with a focus on Human-Computer-Interaction. Vanessa is the Lead Frontend Developer at Zavvy. She is a co-host of the podcasts expect(Exception), Working Draft, and Ausbaufähig. Vanessa is a Chapter Leader of the Front-end Foxes helping women with their first coding and speaking experiences. She was a member of the JS Kongress Program Committee.
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.
Ioana Teleanu
Miro, Romania
Ioana Teleanu is an experienced design leader specializing in AI-powered products. Currently, she is the Lead Product Designer for AI at Miro. Previously, she worked at UiPath on a product called Clipboard AI, which was granted Time Magazine's 'Best Invention of 2023' award. Before that, she contributed to multiple products within UiPath and ING Bank and provided consulting and design services for several early-stage startups worldwide.
She's the creator and instructor of one of the most successful courses on AI for Designers, in partnership with the Interaction Design Foundation. As a seasoned design educator, she has launched courses with Domestika as well as her own design bootcamp, all while mentoring and sharing her insights as a designer within her community, UX Goodies.
Through the UX Goodies channels, which together have over 300,000 followers, and her podcast, Honest UX Talks, Ioana strives to deliver value to her audience. She focuses on teaching designers how to prepare for the AI revolution and remain competitive in a rapidly changing landscape.
Bradley Farias
Socket Security Inc., USA
Bradley Farias has been in the Node.js community as a contributor, TC39 as a member, given workshops on Node.js, and worked on OSS projects as well. He is actively interested in pushing programmer experience APIs for developer tools. He is currently invested in security tooling and experiences which involves not just research into attacks but how to make programmers' experience with security more enjoyable.
Atila Fassina
CrabNebula, Germany
Atila is a self-taught developer and content creator who shares knowledge as a mean to learn things better. He's being working with web developments for sometime now. In Brazil and in Europe. Either speaking at conferences, recording videos on his youtube channel, or writing articles on Smashing Magazine, Dev.to, and his personal blog.
Anselm Eickhoff
Garden Computing, UK
I've been building web apps for 15 years, since my teenage years. I've painfully realised that some of the tools and conventions we take for granted make things much more difficult than they feel they "should" be. We spend most of our time doing stuff over and over again that doesn't really feel related to each individual app (persistence, permissions, shared state). But four years ago, I found out about a new abstraction (CRDTs) and a co-discovered a new way of building apps (local-first). Ever since I've been trying to wrap up this alien new tech in a familiar, ergonomic interface.
Nathaniel Okenwa
Twilio, UK
Nathaniel is a Developer Evangelist at Twilio working to create magical moments for developers with their products. He is a die hard fan of JavaScript, sports, superheroes and mixed martial arts. His life goals are to have Batman's brains, Deadpool's humour, T'Challa's fashion sense, Killmonger's Wokeness, and Thanos' determination! He serves the Javascript community in the UK and the rest of Europe.
Paul Gadi
OPGames, Canada
Paul has been in the gaming industry for the better part of two decades, and has always been interested in the intersection of game design and new tech. He is CTO / Co-founder of OPGames, an open-source game platform company building tools to help game developers navigate this new landscape called web3. Paul is also the co-founder of Altitude Games, a mobile and blockchain gaming company based in the Philippines. He currently leads the KERNEL Gaming Guild, a community of the most talented individuals in the blockchain space. He has been writing and coding on web3 since 2017, and most of his work can be found online at polats.com.
Jessica Cregg
LaunchDarkly, UK
Jessica is a Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, where she speaks about change and writes about the human implications of engineering decisions. She writes for a selection of tech publications and works as a co-organiser of DevOpsDays London and the regular meet-up group DevSecOps London Gathering. She also works with Coding Black Females to improve equal and equitable representation within the technology industry.
Joel Lord
Red Hat OpenShift, Canada
Joel Lord is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by travelling at various conferences all across the globe.
He graduated from college in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he was always in the industry.
As a developer advocate with Red Hat OpenShift, he meets with developers to help them make the web better by using best practices around Kubernetes.
During his free time, he is usually found stargazing in a camping site somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.
Alexandra Spalato
Storyblok, Spain
Alexandra Spalato is a DevRel Engineer at Storyblok, specializing in JAMstack & headless architecture. With a background in freelance dev & entrepreneurship, she brings a unique perspective to successful web projects. Alexandra drives progress in tech industry through speaking at conferences & empowering developers.
Tyrone Kirk Shillingford
Full Stack Developer Consultant, Canada
I'm a full stack dev from the Caribbean who loves Functional programming and Domain Driven Development. From python to elm to F# to Typescript, I like crafting software. I also spend quite a lot of time as a community manager, talking and working with other talented folks in the tech industry.
Mostly I'm just trying to do good work and practice kindness in my habits.