JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Vince started his career as a worldwide educator, and then transitioned to tech. He is currently leading DevRel efforts at Wasp. Vince is also a passionate open-source and indie-hacker/solopreneur community advocate. He is the creator of Open SaaS, a 100% free and open-source alternative to the paid boilerplate starters.

Founder of DNSimple, vendor of duct tape, purveyor of UDP packets. Erlang. Elixir. Golang. Ruby. Java. JavaScript. Surf. Snowboard. Living life to its fullest.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Perttu is a designer and software engineer, with 10 years of experience designing and building web and mobile applications. He loves hacking with technology and building things. When he’s not sitting in front of a computer, he likes to renovate apartments.

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.

I am a long-time open-source developer, educator, manager and mentor. I encourage everyone around me to share their collective knowledge, and am a strong champion of diversity in the tech industry. When I'm not working, I'm live-streaming about career advancement and interview preparation, tinkering with 3D printing or IoT projects, or telling dad jokes on Twitter.

Working in the Developer Relations team at Cloudflare, Harshil enjoys sharing his learnings with the community. A builder, and a passionate JavaScript developer, Harshil loves experimenting with tech and build solutions for his own problems.

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.

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.

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.