JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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 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.

I'm a freelance web developer based in Zürich, Switzerland, and an open source enthusiast. In fact, I made over 7,000 commits on GitHub last year 😅. When I'm not busy building, you can find me literally running up mountains!

Alex is Product Engineer at CodeSandbox, where he mixes his passion user experience with the interest in creating better tooling for developers. He is also an organizer for JSHeroes, one of the biggest JS/Frontend conferences in Romania.

Ujjwal is a Compilers Hacker at Igalia working on TC39 and V8, a Node.js Core Collaborator, a TC39 Delegate and an International Speaker. He loves to talk about open source software, decentralization, cryptography, JavaScript and web standards.

Building Storybook and Chroma.

I’ve always believed the best leaders don’t just build great products – they build great people. Over the past decade, I’ve led engineering teams at LinkedIn, Netflix, and now Salesforce, where I serve as Director of Engineering for our Analytics Agent org. My focus: transforming how we build intelligence, not just software. From architecting AI agents that power Tableau’s next-gen analytics, to driving cross-functional collaboration across global teams, I thrive at the intersection of vision, velocity, and impact. But my mission goes beyond what happens inside one company. Through Peak Potential, the career accelerator I founded, I’ve helped hundreds of senior engineers and leaders grow into staff-level and leadership roles. I’ve seen firsthand how the right mix of mindset, mentorship, and strategy can unlock careers – and change lives. Whether I’m coaching engineers to find their voice, scaling systems for millions, or running and scaling a business (yes, I believe in bringing heart to everything I do), I lead with purpose and a deep belief in the potential of people. If you're building the future of tech, growing into your next big role, or reimagining what's possible – let’s connect.

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.

Baptiste is the CEO and co-founder of Crisp, a customer messaging platform used by 300 000 companies. I started coding when I was 12, and made many different projects before co-founding Crisp in 2015. Some worked and many failed. I still code a lot and have a full-stack approach, from code, UI, UX, growth hacking to customer support.

Bradley Farias has been in the Node.js community as a contributor, TC39 as a member, given workshops on Node.js, and worked on OSS projects as well. He is actively interested in pushing programmer experience APIs for developer tools. He is currently invested in security tooling and experiences which involves not just research into attacks but how to make programmers' experience with security more enjoyable.

Building machines @statelyai Ex @epicgames Coach @mentorcruise ❤️ Statecharts, Finite State machines and XState

Paul has been in the gaming industry for the better part of two decades, and has always been interested in the intersection of game design and new tech. He is CTO / Co-founder of OPGames, an open-source game platform company building tools to help game developers navigate this new landscape called web3. Paul is also the co-founder of Altitude Games, a mobile and blockchain gaming company based in the Philippines. He currently leads the KERNEL Gaming Guild, a community of the most talented individuals in the blockchain space. He has been writing and coding on web3 since 2017, and most of his work can be found online at polats.com.

I work with organisations, teams and individuals. I teach, preach and coach. I’m deeply in love with teamwork, empathy, collective intelligence and helping people understand themselves and each other better. These three are my main topics at the moment: 1. Teamwork needs work Team is the most important unit of work. If the team has collective intelligence, it’ll outsmart and outperform heroic geniuses easily. So what are outstanding teams made of? 2. Why don’t they get me? Successful communication, interaction and teamwork require that we understand ourselves and each other. 3. The next most important skill to learn Receiving feedback well is a necessary life skill and the one who can turn feedback into growth will be better off than the rest.

Kathleen is a software engineer, designer, and conference speaker, who has deep industry experience that fuels her passion for making apps beautifully accessible. She’s a Color Module Specification Editor for the W3C Design Tokens Community Group. She is the Creative Director for the CXsisters network in her spare time and the best lanterne rouge cyclocrosser you’ll ever meet.

GDE for Web, speaker, host of the "Inclusive Pineapple" podcast, organizer of MinskCSS, MinskJS and Accessibility Club Minsk. An unstoppable teacher in digital accessibility courses https://accessibilityunity.com/ 🙂

I'm a senior full-stack developer with a favorite kid named Security. For over ten years now, I've enjoyed writing clean code, simplifying complex problems, leading feature development, and influencing innovation every day. When I’m not busy with code, you’ll find me talking about application performance, building confidence in code-bases, product architecture, developing organizational culture, and other nerdy dev stuff. Besides all that, I'm a father of two, a hobbyist photographer, lego builder, and food creator.

Tech leader leveraging AI to solve real business problems. Built and scaled AI solutions across multiple ventures - from custom agent architectures to enterprise RAG systems and local AI deployments. My biggest passion is teaching others how to leverage AI effectively. I run a private AI community and a YouTube channel breaking down complex AI concepts into practical, hands-on guides. My content mostly covers building AI agents and leveraging AI coding assistants in ways that actually scale.

Tejas works at Dgraph Labs, where he also heads Slash GraphQL, the easiest way to get a GraphQL API up and running.

Tyler is the former Director of Community at Elastic and Director of Marketing at Basho. He looks after product management and community and brings two decades of experience in databases, distributed systems, and developer advocacy.

Alexandra Spalato is a DevRel Engineer at Storyblok, specializing in JAMstack & headless architecture. With a background in freelance dev & entrepreneurship, she brings a unique perspective to successful web projects. Alexandra drives progress in tech industry through speaking at conferences & empowering developers.

Vladimir works as a software engineer at Datadog, where he builds a tool to secure web applications. He used to be a professional security auditor and a web developer in agencies. He is one of the most active members of the Node.js Security Working Group, where he handles the security of Node.js and its ecosystem. Vladimir is an official Node.js collaborator and his contributions mostly focus in the domain of security and monitoring. He also often give talks and training to software engineers to teach them about application security.

Vanessa is a Web Developer. She has an M.Sc in Media Informatics with a focus on Human-Computer-Interaction. Vanessa is the Lead Frontend Developer at Zavvy. She is a co-host of the podcasts expect(Exception), Working Draft, and Ausbaufähig. Vanessa is a Chapter Leader of the Front-end Foxes helping women with their first coding and speaking experiences. She was a member of the JS Kongress Program Committee.

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.

Nathaniel is a Developer Evangelist at Twilio working to create magical moments for developers with their products. He is a die hard fan of JavaScript, sports, superheroes and mixed martial arts. His life goals are to have Batman's brains, Deadpool's humour, T'Challa's fashion sense, Killmonger's Wokeness, and Thanos' determination! He serves the Javascript community in the UK and the rest of Europe.