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!
Anna Henningsen
Anna Henningsen
MongoDB, Germany
Now part of the MongoDB Developer Tools team, Anna has been one of the most active contributors to Node.js core over the last 4 years. She is fueled by a passion for Node.js and its community.
Lazar Nikolov
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.
Tiffany Jachja
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.
Corbin Brown
Corbin Brown
Co-founder of Bumpups, USA
I build things for fun 🤠 Creator of bumpups.com and investor behind _ cafe _.
Jemima Abu
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.
Lisi Linhart
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.
Thomas Ballinger
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.
Ibrahim Cesar Bevilacqua
Ibrahim Cesar Bevilacqua
Compass.uol , Brazil
Solutions Architect, working with web development and cloud, in a news media outlet in Brazil with technologies such as TypeScript, NextJS, Node.js, GraphQL, AWS Amplify and the bazillion other AWS services.
Sadek Drobi
Sadek Drobi
Prismic, France
Prismic founder & CEO; Co-creator of Play web framework. He enjoys connecting business, marketing, software architecture and code.
Brooks Lybrand
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.
Sandrina Pereira
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.
Jason Palmer
Jason Palmer
Spotify, USA
Jest core contributor and creator & maintainer of jest-junit. Jason is an engineer and technical product manager at Spotify where he focuses on web infrastructure, CI/CD, and test automation.
Tim Suchanek
Tim Suchanek
Stellate, Germany
Tim Suchanek is a software engineer and entrepreneur who specializes in GraphQL. He is the author of the GraphQL Playground, and the founder of Stellate, a GraphQL edge caching solution.
 Natalie Lambert
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.
Juarez Barbosa Junior
Juarez Barbosa Junior
Microsoft, Ireland
Juarez Barbosa Junior has +20 years of experience in several IT-related roles throughout his career, currently working for Microsoft as the Azure Developer Engagement Lead in Ireland. Previously, he's worked for Oracle as a Principal Blockchain Developer Advocate and as Thought Leader and Technical Evangelist in IBM Mobile and IBM Watson. He's passionate about engaging developers and communities to present and discuss the latest technologies related to Blockchain, IoT, Cloud Native, AI, and other Emerging Technologies, with a particular focus and interest in Microsoft Azure.
Kia King Ishii
Kia King Ishii
Global Brain, Japan
The optimist web designer/developer. Vue.js core team member. VitePress and Vue’s design system. Partner at Global Brain.
Kathryn Middleton
Kathryn Middleton
Meta, USA
Kathryn Middleton is an Engineering Manager on the React team. Kathryn initially discovered web development when she wanted to make her myspace page look cool. She ended up majoring in Computer Science, and quickly became a huge fan of React building features on the Instagram.com team. Outside of programming she loves playing pingpong, teaching spin classes, and going plant shopping.
Arisa Fukuzaki
Arisa Fukuzaki
Germany
Arisa is a Frontend and Full Stack Developer who became a DevRel Engineer. She works to help improve DX through technical content creation, building demo apps, contributing to OSS, and talks. Outside of her work, she is a GDE, As ANY podcast co-host, and a GirlCode ambassador. In her private time, she is a longboarder, a snowboarder, a yogi, and an Aikido fighter.
Elisa Heikura
Elisa Heikura
Koodarikuiskaaja, Finland
I work with organisations, teams and individuals. I teach, preach and coach. I’m deeply in love with teamwork, empathy, collective intelligence and helping people understand themselves and each other better. These three are my main topics at the moment: 1. Teamwork needs work Team is the most important unit of work. If the team has collective intelligence, it’ll outsmart and outperform heroic geniuses easily. So what are outstanding teams made of? 2. Why don’t they get me? Successful communication, interaction and teamwork require that we understand ourselves and each other. 3. The next most important skill to learn Receiving feedback well is a necessary life skill and the one who can turn feedback into growth will be better off than the rest.
 Greg Brimble
Greg Brimble
Cloudflare, USA
Greg Brimble is an experienced Systems Engineer helping to build Cloudflare's Developer Platform. He is primarily focused on Cloudflare Pages, a platform for developers who want to build full-stack, affordable, and globally scalable applications. He spends a lot of time thinking about the experience for Pages' developers, but also (and maybe more importantly) the experience for their end-users. How can applications, frameworks, and platforms all work together to produce the most performant, most accessible, and most delightful experience for users, regardless of where they are, what device they're using, or what internet connection they have.
Jenn Junod
Jenn Junod
Aiven, USA
Jenn is a multifaceted individual with a passion for technology and a heart for people. Currently, she works as a Developer Advocate for Aiven, where she helps developers harness the power of data infrastructure. Outside of work, Jenn hosts Teach Jenn Tech, about exploring technology. Jenn also hosts a thought-provoking podcast called Sh!t You Don't Want to Talk About, where she fearlessly dives into challenging topics such as mental health, equity, and diversity. Her goal is to create a safe and welcoming space for honest conversations, where people from all backgrounds can feel heard and understood. Jenn's focus is on PostgreSQL and TypeScript and she is always eager to learn and explore new technologies. She thrives on diving deep into complex problems, finding elegant solutions whether she's coding, teaching, or podcasting. Jenn is an advocate for social justice, striving to make the tech industry more equitable and diverse, ensuring everyone has a seat at the table. In all her endeavors, Jenn is a force to be reckoned with, fueled by her love of people and her passion for technology.
Benjie
Benjie
Graphile, UK
Community-funded OSS maintainer, building for GraphQL, Node.js and PostgreSQL (PostGraphile, Graphile Worker, …). GraphQL TSC & Spec WG member
Simon Emanuel Schmid
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.
Patrick Ecker
Patrick Ecker
Independent Consultant, Austria
Patrick is a frontend engineer at Rohea Oy, building the next big sales enablement platform built on Flow, ReScript, React and PHP. He is also core team member of the ReScript programming language, working on the language's tooling infrastructure and documentation website.