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!
Yehuda Katz
Yehuda Katz
Tilde, Inc., USA
Over the years, Yehuda has worked on a number of open source projects, including Ruby on Rails, jQuery and Rust. He also created some of his own, including Handlebars, Ember.js and Cargo (Rust's package manager). At the moment, he's working on a new library that extracts the best part's of Ember's auto-tracking reactivity system into a package that you can use in any UI framework. That's what this talk is about!
Minko Gechev
Minko Gechev
Google, USA
Minko is the Generative UI lead at Google. Previously, he was a technical co-founder and the CTO of Rhyme.com, which in 2019 joined Coursera.
Carson Gross
Carson Gross
Big Sky Software, USA
Carson Gross is a developer and the creator of htmx, a hypermedia-oriented JavaScript library. He teaches Computer Science at Montana State University and owns Big Sky Software.
Evan Bacon
Evan Bacon
Expo, USA
Creator of Expo Router, manager of dev tools and the web platform at Expo.
Dominik Dorfmeister
Dominik Dorfmeister
Sentry, Austria
Dominik is a Frontend Engineer, React-Query maintainer working at Sentry, who blogs about all things React and TypeScript (https://tkdodo.eu/blog/).
Aiden Bai
Aiden Bai
Dimension (dimension.dev), USA
Aiden Bai is a frontend performance engineer with a passion for efficient developer tools. He's the creator of Million.js and React Scan, and is the resident performance nerd at Dimension.
Jason Lengstorf
Jason Lengstorf
Netlify, USA
Jason Lengstorf works at Netlify and hosts Learn With Jason. He spends a lot of time telling people that the formula for success and happiness is to lift each other up and share what we learn. He is trying his very best to follow his own advice. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Christopher Chedeau
Christopher Chedeau
Facebook, USA
Facebook Front-End Engineering Manager
Eleftheria Batsou
Eleftheria Batsou
CrabNebula, Greece
Mentorship available
A Community Manager with a coding background who is also keen on UX research. Passionate about public speaking, dev community growth and sharing.
Paul Henschel
Paul Henschel
react-three-fiber, Switzerland
Front-end developer. Currently living in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Founder of Luxundlaune, a photography platform in Germany, Paranoidandroid, a custom rom for Android and several open source projects including react-spring, react-three-fiber, react-use-gesture, zustand.
Matteo Collina
Matteo Collina
Platformatic.dev, Italy
Matteo is the Co-Founder and CTO of Platformatic.dev with the goal to remove all friction from backend development. He is also a prolific Open Source author in the JavaScript ecosystem and modules he maintains are downloaded more than 17 billion times a year. Previously he was Chief Software Architect at NearForm. Matteo is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee focusing on streams, diagnostics and http. He is also the author of the fast logger Pino and of the Fastify web framework. He is also co-author of the book "Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify" edited by Packt. In 2014, he defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Application Platforms for the Internet of Things". Matteo is an renowed international speaker after more than 60 conferences, including OpenJS World, Node.js Interactive, NodeConf.eu, NodeSummit, JSConf.Asia, WebRebels, and JsDay just to name a few. In the summer he loves sailing the Sirocco.
Marc Backes
Marc Backes
WeAreDevelopers, Luxembourg
DevRel Lead at WeAreDevelopers, Co-organizer of BELvue, freelance fullstack developer
Caleb Porzio
Caleb Porzio
Creator of AlpineJS & LaravelLivewire, USA
Co-Host of @noplanstomerge podcast | Creator of LaravelLivewire & AlpineJS
Max Stoiber
Max Stoiber
GraphCDN, Austria
JavaScript Engineer from Austria in love with React and Node. Previously he worked at GitHub, who acquired the startup he co-founded, Spectrum. He is well known for making styled-components, react-boilerplate, and a wide variety of other open source projects in the React ecosystem.
Ryan Carniato
Ryan Carniato
Sentry, USA
Ryan Carniato is a prominent developer, educator, and open source maintainer best known as the creator and lead maintainer of SolidJS, a high-performance reactive JavaScript framework. He is recognized for his deep expertise in frontend web development, especially around cutting-edge technologies like reactivity, server-side rendering(SSR), hydration, and advanced optimization techniques employed by JavaScript frameworks.
Frantz Kati
Frantz Kati
Udemy instructor, Nigeria
Frantz Kati is a software engineer with a passion for teaching and building open source developer tools. He's a Udemy instructor with over 75,000 students, creator and editor of the Tech Career Growthletter with 17,000 readers, and currently the core maintainer of the headless open source CMS TenseiJS.
James Q Quick
James Q Quick
Learn Build Teach LLC, USA
James is a JS Developer, Keynote Speaker, and Content Creator whose passion for teaching has impacted hundreds of thousands of developers across the world. With 10+ years of Software Development and Developer Advocacy experience, he brings deep technical knowledge as well as a proven ability to communicate across levels of understanding and experience to impact a broad audience of developers. In his spare time, he runs a thriving Discord community called Learn Build Teach, plays co-ed soccer with his wife, and can solve a Rubik's cube in under a minute.
Tim Neutkens
Tim Neutkens
Vercel, The Netherlands
Tech lead for Next.js and Turbopack, co-author of Nextjs, MDX, Micro and ncc
Miško Hevery
Miško Hevery
Builder.io, USA
As CTO, Miško oversees the technology division that powers the Builder.io applications and software. Before joining Builder.io, he created Open Source platforms for Google, including Angular, AngularJS and was co-creator of Karma. While at Google, he brought a testing culture there with his blog. Before focusing on making the web better, he believes testing is the key to success. Miško started his career designing digital circuits and moved to databases, full-stack development and finally, front-end frameworks, giving him a unique perspective. He understands all of the layers from the web down to a transistor. In addition to Google, he worked for tech powerhouses Adobe Systems and Sun Microsystems. He holds an MS/BS from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MBA from Santa Clara University.
Steve Ruiz
Steve Ruiz
tldraw, UK
Steve Ruiz is founder and CEO of tldraw, a London-based startup building an infinite canvas component for the web. The company is known for its tldraw SDK as well as for many viral AI demos including Make Real and tldraw computer. Prior to tldraw, Steve worked on several open source tools for creative products, including perfect-freehand and perfect-arrows.
Tom Preston-Werner
Tom Preston-Werner
RedwoodJS, USA
Tom Preston-Werner is an inventor, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is currently building RedwoodJS, Preston-Werner Ventures (investing in open source, dev tools, climate tech, AI), and 128 Collective (a climate think tank working on the just transition to 1.5 degrees). Tom also cofounded and was CEO of GitHub, and created Jekyll, SemVer, and TOML. He currently sits on the boards of Gitpod, Netlify, Mote Hydrogen, and Hack Club. Tom enjoys running, mountain biking, snowboarding, flying helicopters, baking sourdough, and eating tater tots.
Shu Ding
Shu Ding
Vercel, Germany
Shu is a designer and engineer at Vercel building Next.js. He is the creator and maintainer of OSS like SWR and Nextra. Besides JavaScript, he also enjoys generative art and algorithm challenges.
Andreas Müller
Andreas Müller
Microsoft, USA
Andreas Müller is a Principal Research SDE at Microsoft, where he works on the interface of the Data Science ecosystem and cloud infrastructure. He previously held positions as Associate Research Scientist at the Columbia Data Science Institute and as a Research Engineer at the NYU Center for Data Science. He is one of the core developers of the scikit-learn machine learning library, a member of the scikit-learn technical committee, and the author of the book "Introduction to machine learning with Python". His work focuses on practical aspects of machine learning and the development of user-centric machine learning software.
Malte Ubl
Malte Ubl
Vercel, USA
Malte Ubl is the CTO of Vercel. He leads the development and delivery of the company’s suite of tools and features to enable developers to create at the moment of inspiration. Prior to joining Vercel, Malte was the Principal Engineer for Google Search Rendering and Engineering Director for Google’s Search on Laptops, Tablets, and Desktop. Malte has also created the frontend infrastructure for a number of Google Web Apps and the web at large. He is also the founder and curator of JSConf EU.