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!
Vladimir de Turckheim
Sqreen, France
Vladimir works as a software engineer at Datadog, where he builds a tool to secure web applications. He used to be a professional security auditor and a web developer in agencies. He is one of the most active members of the Node.js Security Working Group, where he handles the security of Node.js and its ecosystem. Vladimir is an official Node.js collaborator and his contributions mostly focus in the domain of security and monitoring. He also often give talks and training to software engineers to teach them about application security.
Baptiste Jamin
Crisp, France
Baptiste is the CEO and co-founder of Crisp, a customer messaging platform used by 300 000 companies. I started coding when I was 12, and made many different projects before co-founding Crisp in 2015. Some worked and many failed. I still code a lot and have a full-stack approach, from code, UI, UX, growth hacking to customer support.
Kevin Ball
Mento, USA
Kevin Ball is VP of engineering at Mento, focused on helping modern workers grow in their careers via a unique combination of coaching and mentorship. He is also a trained coach who works with engineers and engineering managers, a panelist on the JSParty podcast, and publishes Human Skills, a series of weekly interviews of tech industry leaders on all of the non-technical skills that go into success in the tech industry.
Kevin is an experienced engineer, manager, and entrepreneur who has co-founded and acted as CTO for 2 companies, founded the San Diego Javascript Meetup, and has written articles for publications including Smashing Magazine, web designer magazine, Net magazine, and LeadDev. He has spoken around the world including conferences like All Things Open, Web Unleashed, NodeConf Colombia, and React Amsterdam.
Zernonia Kong
Troop Travel, Malaysia
Zernonia is a Self-Taught Developer and Lead Frontend Developer at Troop Travel. He often finds himself enjoying doing Design and Developing Frontend Projects for the community, especially for Vue.
Zernonia loves building Free & Open-Source tools for developers, because he believes in the essence of good-will.
Gabriel L. Manor
Permit.io, Israel
I'm a senior full-stack developer with a favorite kid named Security. For over ten years now, I've enjoyed writing clean code, simplifying complex problems, leading feature development, and influencing innovation every day. When I’m not busy with code, you’ll find me talking about application performance, building confidence in code-bases, product architecture, developing organizational culture, and other nerdy dev stuff. Besides all that, I'm a father of two, a hobbyist photographer, lego builder, and food creator.
Ruth Mesfun
Teachers Pay Teachers, USA
Ruth Mesfun is a Software Engineer at Teachers Pay Teachers. Her team was tasked to de-risk important pages that were dynamically rendered on mobile which they completed in two months.
While learning all about SEO and mobile-first indexing she also is taking a class in beginner Japanese and finished a Financial Coach program.
Christopher Ehrlich
Axiom, Austria
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.
Milecia McGregor
Conducto, USA
Milecia is a senior software engineer that's worked with JavaScript, Angular, React, Node, PHP, Python, .NET, SQL, AWS, Heroku, Azure, and many other tools to build web apps. She also has a master's degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering and has published research in machine learning and robotics. She started Flipped Coding in 2017 to help people learn web development with real-world projects and she publishes articles covering all aspects of software on several publications, including freeCodeCamp. In her free time, she spends time with her husband and dogs while learning to play the harmonica and trying to create her own mad scientist lab.
Christian Bromann
Sauce Labs, Germany
Christian Bromann is a member of the Open Source Program Office at Sauce Labs and is working on various open source projects related to test automation and Node.js. He represents the company as Advisory Committee representative at the W3C and the WebdriverIO project as core contributor in the OpenJS Foundation Cross-Project Council. In the past he has been leading various product initiatives at Sauce Labs including extended debugging capabilities for automated tests as well as frontend performance testing using WebDriver.
Taz Singh
Guild, UK
Taz is the Founder of Guild and long time participant in communities around the world. He has over two decades of software experience ranging from video games & robotic AI to consumer application development, has served as a principal technical management consultant, and is a serial startup founder. When he's not behind his computer, he can be found chasing his cat around the house or being chased by cars around a race track.
Tamas Piros
Cloudinary, UK
Tamas is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and a Developer Experience Engineer. He has more than a decade of experience delivering technical training to large, prestigious organisations. He is passionate about unlocking the latest & greatest features of web development.
Chris Bell
Knock, USA
Chris is the co-founder and CTO at Knock, a company that helps companies send better notifications to their users. He's an avid Elixirist and an active member of the community, running the popular ElixirTalk podcast and co-organizing the EMPEX conference. In his spare time, he hangs out with his mini-dachshund puppy, Trout, and cycles.
Krutie Patel
Deloitte Digital Australia, Australia
I'm a front-end developer. I create interactive web stuff using Vue js and Nuxt js. Some other frameworks and libraries I also enjoy working with include GSAP, Laravel ⚡️ and Jamstack (JavaScript, APIs + Markup). I love writing ✏️ articles about what I learn and share with Vue/Nuxt community. You can find my blog-posts on my website, which is also created using 👑 Nuxt js.
Apart from this, I also love creating colour-coded diagrams. I create them to capture and document my learning. Diagraming have been an effective tool in my learning journey of Laravel, Vue js and of course, my absolute favourite, Nuxt js.
Akash Hamirwasia
Razorpay, India
Akash is a software engineer at Razorpay who loves building innovative products on the web with great user experience. He is also an open-source enthusiast and the author of Blaze, Diode and Slant it projects. His recent fascination has been dabbling with creating languages and parsers. Akash is always open to talk about front-end development, UI design and building products.
Vince Canger
Wasp, Germany
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.
Rob Richardson
Cyral, USA
Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development. You can find this and other talks on https://robrich.org/presentations and follow him on twitter at @rob_rich.
Rishabh Mehrotra
Sourcegraph, UK
Rishabh is a machine learning scientist working on ML techniques for recommendations in online marketplaces. He works on multi-objective decisioning, recommendations, marketplaces, personalization and experimentation. He has led various ML projects from basic research to production, with >10 product launches for 350+ million users.
Brian Love
Polaris, USA
Brian Love is a software engineer, Google Developer Expert, and co-founder at Polaris, where he is building developer tools for a more performant and reliable internet. He enjoys learning, speaking, and writing about software and technology. Brian co-authored "Why Angular for the Enterprise" for O'Reilly. When not coding, Brian enjoys skiing, hiking, and being in the outdoors.
Sami Jaber
Builder.io, Canada
Following a stint in data engineering, I have spent the past 6 years focused on web development.
After building elegant & highly performant user experiences at Unsplash as the Web Team Lead, I have now shifted focus to developing SDKs & maintaining Mitosis @ Builder.io.
I am currently the core maintainer of Mitosis, a trail-blazing open-source project that allows engineers to write their components once and build them for every web framework out there.