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.

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.

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.

CTO and co-founder of Fauna.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Confidence Okoghenun is a Developer Advocate at Cloudflare, where he bridges the gap between developers and the company’s edge platform, focusing on developer tooling, edge computing, and practical AI integrations. Confidence regularly shares his knowledge through blog posts, conference talks, and open‑source demos, especially around AI‑agent workflows and cutting edge web tech.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

Jemima Abu is an award-winning product engineer, Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, and Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies. She is passionate about diversity in technology and accessibility in web development.

My name is Maria and I'm a software engineer at Microsoft in the TypeScript team. I mostly focus on its language support in Visual Studio, but I also work in the JavaScript project system and the integration of other language servers into the IDE (like ESLint and Angular). When I'm not debugging mysterious code I didn't write, I enjoy giving my 2¢ to open source.

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.

Head of Developer Relations at api.video.

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.

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.

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/).