JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

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.

Alejandro has been involved with the Node.js project and its community for some time, helping to grow its community in latam. He enjoys speaking on web security, Node.js performance and serverless.

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.

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.

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.

CTO and co-founder of Fauna.

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 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.

I’m Theodore, a software engineer, educator and speaker based in Athens, Greece. I’m currently working as a lead software engineer for Workable.

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 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.

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.

Now part of the MongoDB Database Experience team, Anna has previously been one of the most active contributors to Node.js core. She is fueled by a passion for Node.js and its community, and loves sharing what she learns both during and outside of working hours.

Jemima Abu is a self-taught front-end developer, Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, and Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies. She is passionate about diversity in technology and accessibility in web development.

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.

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.

Asad has spent past decade building various types of devtools including a SaaS for online IDE and a semi-viral web framework. Currently, Asad is building Playroom (joinplayroom.com), a multiplayer game SDK for web games.

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.

Prismic founder & CEO; Co-creator of Play web framework. He enjoys connecting business, marketing, software architecture and code.

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.

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.

Developer Experience Engineer @ Sentry, organizer of React Toronto community, tinkerer.

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/).