JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Ramona is a Developer Advocate at Auth0. With a background in software engineering and quality assurance, she bridges the gap between testers and developers and fosters trust in identity topics. Ramona is also a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, a Women Techmaker, and a Cypress Ambassador.

Will is dedicated to improving the developer experience for everyone. He has worked in design systems, React, and full-stack TypeScript development, and now builds developer tools full-time as an independent developer.

Ben cares about enabling developers, and supporting open source projects that push the Web forward (OpenJS Foundation, Node.js, tc39, Unicode Consortium). As a Technical Evangelist at DataDog, he’s helping devs create delightful experiences by using real user monitoring, and distributed synthetic testing. Ben has also led JavaScript meetups over the years (PDXNode, WebAudioPDX), and occasionally produces music.

I'm Jake and I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft working on TypeScript. I'm mainly focusing on performance and infrastructure, but still work on whatever's fun (or manages to nerd-snipe me)! Before TypeScript, I worked on Pylance and pyright on Microsoft's Python team.

Zan Markan is a developer advocate at CircleCI, on a mission to educate and inspire developers on the topics of CI/CD, DevOps, and software quality. Across his career he has worked in companies of various sizes, from enterprises to own startups, and everything in between, and across industries as diverse as retail, AI, and developer tools. He’s passionate about serverless technologies, mobile development, and developer experience. Outside of work, he enthuses over airplanes, craft beer, and the Oxford comma.

Daria is a Speaker, Scrum Master, and Software Engineer at Workday where she builds consumer-grade web experiences for the enterprise user. When not coding, Daria is often found traveling, eating good food, and traveling to eat good food.

The web, mobile, JavaScript, React/Native, CI/CD, process improvement, leading teams, remote work, and interviewing.

Mo is the Head of Mobile and a Tech Lead at Theodo UK, having worked on several projects with startups and established enterprises to create cross-platform mobile application in React Native. He's passionate about React Native, MobileDevOps, and pushing the boundaries of combining code across web and mobile. Before joining Theodo, Mo was a full-stack developer at Nasdaq. He is a graduate from the University of Edinburgh.

UI Engineer at Facebook. Author of Recoil.js

Sergey is a web developer actively engaged in the development of technologies and tools for creating websites. One of the two co-authors of the BEM methodology. Currently he responsible for developer relations, hiring and training in his company.

Josh Justice has worked as a developer since 2004 across frontend, mobile, and backend platforms. As a consultant he collaborates with teams to help them deliver great apps by optimizing their tech stack and development practices. He also writes, speaks, and livestreams about React and React Native, testing, and software design.

Chris McCormick has been putting weird things on the internet since 1997. He writes code, makes music, doodles, does game dev, and builds online micro-businesses as a hobby.

Gert is an engineer at Chromatic, the company behind Storybook. He works closely with the rest of the Storybook team to envision and build the future of UI development and testing.

In 2013, I graduated with a BFA and took my first job as a Junior Graphic Designer at a small, boutique ad agency. While there, my Creative Director warned me to never let anyone find out I could code, because if I did I'd be stuck doing it forever. I ignored his warning; it turns out he was completely right, but I've never been happier. I currently work as a developer advocate on a wonderful team where I help people build web applications in React, design and maintain their UI component libraries, and desperately attempt to stop back-end devs from writing any more CSS.

Thomas has contributed to dozens of enterprise Node.js services and has worked for a company dedicated to securing Node.js. He has spoken at several conferences on Node.js and JavaScript, is an O'Reilly published author (Distributed Systems with Node.js ), and is an organizer of NodeSchool SF.

Current maintainer of RollupJS. After finishing my PhD studying the mathematical properties of black holes, I decided to go for less substance from then on and follow my passion of becoming a professional software developer. For the last six years, I have been doing full-stack consulting work for various clients at TNG Technology Consulting GmbH. This includes a big focus on DevOps: tuning Node servers, tending to Kubernetes clusters and orchestrating CI/CD pipelines are an important part my work. During this time, I also stumbled upon RollupJS, and while I originally only wanted to push a few improvements to their dead code elimination algorithm, I ended up rewriting it from the ground up. And in the process, I accidentally became acting maintainer of that project :) Since 2017 I have been continuously working on further improving tree-shaking, adding code-splitting together with Guy Bedford, and many other things to make it a great tool not only for optimizing JavaScript libraries but also for advanced and custom build processes at big companies like Github, Bloomberg, Salesforce and many others.

Ruy is an open-source maintainer, Node.js contributor and member of the npm cli team at GitHub fostering community contributions while also working on tools that manages millions of JavaScript package installs everyday. He also speaks at conferences and meetups from time to time, you can find some of the presented content on Speaker Deck and Youtube.

Emanuele Stoppa is an Italian Senior Software Engineer, currently living in Ireland. Active contributor to the Biome and Astro projects. He has more than ten years of experience in the field. He has worked in many fields in the industry - fintech, travel, e-commerce, etc. - and is passionate about open source.

Júlio de Lima is a specialist in Software Testing with 13 years of experience. Júlio has a Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, a specialization in Teaching in Higher Education and a Master's Degree in Electrical and Computational Engineering with a focus on Testing and Artificial Intelligence. He currently lives in Orlando, Florida. He serves as Principal QA Engineer at Capco, helping financial institutions establish robust and sustainable testing strategies. He uses his coding and architecture skills to contribute to software quality at all system layers. Júlio has contributed to the software testing community through his channels on YouTube, Instagram, Spotify, and in articles for technical and scientific magazines. He has experience as a speaker at international events and has trained more than 9,000 students through his online training in Portuguese.

Engineering & Design Manager helping build things for GraphQL at Apollo. Currently working on the new Apollo Explorer.

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.

Nick is a Developer Engagement Lead at Microsoft.

Lead DevRel at React Bricks and Astro Maintainer Former Astro core team and Astro Maintainer Elian, works in the Developer Experience field. Specifically focusing on user experience, documentation, developer guidance, and developer education side of things. After hours, he helps organize BeJS, React Paris, React Brussels, and React Africa. Next to that, he organises the Devs.gent meetups in his hometown. Known for his passion, puns, and innovative approach to delivering exceptional user experiences, Elian brings a unique blend of technical expertise and creativity to his talks. Guaranteed fun on stage.

Nico Martin is a self-taught web-developer and Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies from Switzerland. While working as a freelance frontend consultant, creative coding has always been his passion. And he shares this enthusiasm whenever possible in workshops, articles or talks.