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!
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.
Andrew Branch
Andrew Branch
Microsoft, USA
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.
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.
Sadek Drobi
Sadek Drobi
Prismic, France
Prismic founder & CEO; Co-creator of Play web framework. He enjoys connecting business, marketing, software architecture and code.
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.
Ioana Teleanu
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.
William Lyon
William Lyon
Neo4j, USA
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/).
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.
Chaitanya Deorukhkar
Chaitanya Deorukhkar
Razorpay, India
Chaitanya is a Staff Frontend Engineer at Razorpay, deeply passionate about design systems and frontend architecture. Over the past few years, he has focused on building scalable systems and tooling that empower developers to create consistent, accessible, and efficient UI at scale. He is part of the team that built Blade, Razorpay’s open-source design system, which has received global recognition and was even featured by Figma. Chaitanya is equally passionate about the world of AI and strongly believes that the intersection of AI and design systems will redefine how we build user interfaces. His recent work on BladeAI, an AI-powered “Figma to Code” solution, reflects that vision — aiming to transform design into production-ready code that speaks the same language as real developers and systems do. When he’s not writing code, Chaitanya is either lost in a good fiction book or gaming on his PlayStation.
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.
Christian Bromann
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.
 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 & Workers, 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 Cloudflare's 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 or internet connection they have, or what they're trying to achieve.
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.
Sergiy Dybskiy
Sergiy Dybskiy
Sentry, Canada
Developer Experience Engineer @ Sentry, organizer of React Toronto community, tinkerer.
David Mark Clements
David Mark Clements
Holepunch, Netherlands
David Mark Clements is the Platform Principal Architect of Pear Runtime by Holepunch. Writing JavaScript since '96, into Node.js from 0.8 (2012). Author, OSS Creator, Teacher, Consultant, Speaker helping to shape the ecosystem. Node Cookbook original and OpenJS Node.js Certifications lead. Driving innovation in the exciting peer-to-peer space, marking a new chapter in decentralized computing: pears.com.
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.
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.
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.
 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.
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.
Shy Ruparel
Shy Ruparel
Docker, USA
Sr. Developer Advocate at Docker.
Benjie
Benjie
Graphile, UK
Community-funded OSS maintainer, building for GraphQL, Node.js and PostgreSQL (PostGraphile, Graphile Worker, …). GraphQL TSC & Spec WG member
Omar Shehata
Omar Shehata
Snapchat, USA
Omar is a graphics programmer working on mapping software currently based in Ithaca, NY. He is the co-creator of a desktop game, Move or Die. He has published over a dozen flash games that have been played millions of times. He loves the the universal accessibility of creating things for the web and enjoys writing computer graphics tutorials to help others create awesome stuff for the web.
Zernonia Kong
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.