JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Prismic founder & CEO; Co-creator of Play web framework. He enjoys connecting business, marketing, software architecture and code.

Chaitanya is a Principal Frontend Engineer at Atlassian, focused on making Jira developers (human and AI alike) as productive as possible. He works to remove bottlenecks, accelerate shipping, and unlock AI-assisted code contributions to Jira.

The optimist web designer/developer. Vue.js core team member. VitePress and Vue’s design system. Partner at Global Brain.

Previously a Staff Engineer at Meta, he created Docusaurus 2, one of the company’s most popular open-source projects. He now explores the intersection of AI, frontend engineering, and design.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sr. Developer Advocate at Docker.

SimpleX Chat (http://simplex.chat) founder - the 1st chat platform that does not have any user identifiers. Created Ajv JSON validator used by millions of JS apps.

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.

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.

Naresh is a software engineer on the Agents team at Cloudflare, building opinionated abstractions on the Cloudflare Developer Platform to run agents on production and give them access to sandbox environments. He was a founder prior to joining Cloudflare, building coding agents that were at the top of SWE Bench and was part of the YCombinator Summer 2023 batch. He was a founding engineer building payments infrastructure for India in the early part of his career and contributor to Open Source projects like gRPC.

My background includes 10 years experience in Web development and currently venturing into Machine Learning, I am deeply passionate about empowering and inspiring others, which is why I proudly serve as a Women Techmaker Ambassador, dedicated to sharing my knowledge and experiences with the community and fostering diversity in the tech industry.

Atila is a self-taught developer and content creator who shares knowledge as a mean to learn things better. He's being working with web developments for sometime now. In Brazil and in Europe. Either speaking at conferences, recording videos on his youtube channel, or writing articles on Smashing Magazine, Dev.to, and his personal blog.

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.