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!

Ben Michel
Datadog, USA
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.
Maria Solano
Microsoft, Canada
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.

Ruy Adorno
GitHub, Canada
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
The Astro Technology Company, Ireland
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.

Marius Obert
Twilio, Germany
Marius is a Developer Evangelist at Twilio with a passion for exploring and sharing the latest in communication tech. He started as a UI developer in Silicon Valley, fell in love with JavaScript, and never looked back. Now based in Munich, he helps developers build cloud-native apps that redefine customer engagement. When he's not coding or speaking at events, you'll find him tinkering with Web 3.0 or dreaming up the next big prototype.

Júlio de Lima
CAPCO, USA
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.

Thomas Hunter II
Lob.com, USA
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.

Kathryn Grayson Nanz
Progress Software, USA
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.

Negar Jamalifard
Lightspeed Commerce, Canada
Negar is a senior software developer at Lightspeed Commerce, based in Montreal, Canada, with a focus on frontend development. With expertise in React, Vue, and a passion for CSS and web styling, she excels at simplifying complex concepts to make them accessible to all.

Pablo Postigo
Frontity, Spain
Software Engineer, entrepreneur and foodie. Born and raised in Madrid, Spain. Pablo and his team are on a mission to make building delightful user experiences universally accessible. He founded Frontity in 2015, has raised 1.5M€ in funding and since June 2019, Frontity became a 100% open-source project after releasing their framework for building lighting sites using React and WordPress.

Lukas Taegert-Atkinson
TNG Technology Consulting GmbH, Germany
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.

Andrei Calazans
G2i, Brazil
I'm a Software Developer with an emphasis on a JavaScript Stack(React, React Native, GraphQL, Relay, Apollo, Redux, Redux-Saga, and others). Over the past years, I've worked mostly with Front-End applications, but I have done Back-End work with GraphQL JS. Despite starting my career on the Web, I have been working with Mobile applications for quite some time. Due to working on cross-platform solutions like React Native, I have some experience writing Swift, Objective-C, Java, and C++. I cherish good communication and respect. I also have some of those cliche skills = ) Fast learner and a good communicator. Besides Software Development, I like writing, learning about emotions, and philosophy.

Fabien Vauchelles
Wiremind, France
Fabien Vauchelles is the Anti-Ban Expert at Wiremind. With over a decade of experience in web scraping, Fabien's passion for code and technology helps him to bypass bans. He is the creator of Scrapoxy, an opensource proxy aggregator for webscraping.
He had the opportunity to speak at Devoxx FR, Zyte’s Extract Summit and Voxxed Days.

Daniel Norman
Interplanetary Shipyard, Germany
Daniel is a software developer and developer advocate for the IPFS and libp2p projects who brings over a decade of experience with the Web stack and distributed systems. He's passionate about open-source culture, developer tools, and the Web Platform, and enjoys applying insights from various disciplines to software development.