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!

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

Chris Bell
Knock, USA
Chris is the co-founder and CTO at Knock, a company that helps companies send better notifications to their users. He's an avid Elixirist and an active member of the community, running the popular ElixirTalk podcast and co-organizing the EMPEX conference. In his spare time, he hangs out with his mini-dachshund puppy, Trout, and cycles.

Farzad Yousefzadeh
Stately.ai, Finland
Mentorship available
Building machines @statelyai
Ex @epicgames
Coach @mentorcruise
❤️ Statecharts, Finite State machines and XState

Vladimir de Turckheim
Sqreen, France
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.

Tyler Hannan
Fauna, Netherlands
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
Storyblok, Spain
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.

Samuel Stroschein
Opral, USA
Founder of Opral. Started building i18n infrastructure, and ended up creating inlang and lix.

Nathaniel Okenwa
Twilio, UK
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.

Robert Aboukhalil
Bioinformatics Software Engineer, USA
Robert is a bioinformatics software engineer who builds interactive web apps for genomics data analysis and visualization. He's the author of the book Level up with WebAssembly.

Taz Singh
Guild, UK
Taz is the Founder of Guild and long time participant in communities around the world. He has over two decades of software experience ranging from video games & robotic AI to consumer application development, has served as a principal technical management consultant, and is a serial startup founder. When he's not behind his computer, he can be found chasing his cat around the house or being chased by cars around a race track.

Vanessa Otto
Zavvy GmbH, Germany
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.

Marco Ippolito
HeroDevs, Italy
Marco is a Senior Security Engineer at HeroDevs.
Active contributor, releaser, and member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, he is a renowned international speaker and a former Microsoft MVP. Marco is actively involved in many projects within the Node.js ecosystem and also serves as a delegate in TC39.

Ayodele Aransiola
Gopaddi, London, United Kingdom
Mentorship available
Ayodele is a solution architect who is passionate about developer education and product adoption. He's passionate about learning, building, and teaching modern technologies.

Vitor Norton
SuperViz, Brazil
Microsoft MVP for longer than I can remember, +10 years as Full Stack working with C#, TypeScript, React and Angular. I'm a mix of User Experience, Developer and a touch of humanities. Passionate about building bridges among people.

Leon Nunes
Solo.io, India
Technical Support Engineer @ Solo.io | DevOps | Tech writing | K8s Support l Cloud | AWS
Jessica Cregg
LaunchDarkly, UK
Jessica is a Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, where she speaks about change and writes about the human implications of engineering decisions. She writes for a selection of tech publications and works as a co-organiser of DevOpsDays London and the regular meet-up group DevSecOps London Gathering. She also works with Coding Black Females to improve equal and equitable representation within the technology industry.

Joel Lord
Red Hat OpenShift, Canada
Joel Lord is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by travelling at various conferences all across the globe.
He graduated from college in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he was always in the industry.
As a developer advocate with Red Hat OpenShift, he meets with developers to help them make the web better by using best practices around Kubernetes.
During his free time, he is usually found stargazing in a camping site somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.

Daniel Madalitso Phiri
Weaviate, Developer Experience Engineer, France
Daniel is a Senior Developer Advocate at Weaviate - an open-source vector database. He spends a lot of his time curating music and writing (about) software. He is passionate about creating value through software online and working with developers

Tamas Piros
Cloudinary, UK
Tamas is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and a Developer Experience Engineer. He has more than a decade of experience delivering technical training to large, prestigious organisations. He is passionate about unlocking the latest & greatest features of web development.

Shain Dholakiya
Decentology, USA
Shain is a Developer Advocate at Decentology, where he teaches about topics in Web3 and how to build in Web3. He previously worked at NASA, The Boring Company, Microsoft, and Amazon, focusing mainly on web and mobile development. Shain spends most of his time building side projects, engaging with the Web3 community, playing poker, and working out!

Ankita Masand
Treebo, India
Ankita is an Associate Architect at Treebo. She likes writing technical blogs and makes it a point to explain convoluted technical jargon in simple and concise language.

Kevin Ball
Mento, USA
Kevin Ball is VP of engineering at Mento, focused on helping modern workers grow in their careers via a unique combination of coaching and mentorship. He is also a trained coach who works with engineers and engineering managers, a panelist on the JSParty podcast, and publishes Human Skills, a series of weekly interviews of tech industry leaders on all of the non-technical skills that go into success in the tech industry.
Kevin is an experienced engineer, manager, and entrepreneur who has co-founded and acted as CTO for 2 companies, founded the San Diego Javascript Meetup, and has written articles for publications including Smashing Magazine, web designer magazine, Net magazine, and LeadDev. He has spoken around the world including conferences like All Things Open, Web Unleashed, NodeConf Colombia, and React Amsterdam.

Vova Guguiev
Framer, Netherlands
Vova is a product engineer at Framer, where he works on removing boundaries of what's possible to achieve with creative tools and enabling new ways of building products. He's passionate about native browser ESM, Import Maps and web3.

Ruth Mesfun
Teachers Pay Teachers, USA
Ruth Mesfun is a Software Engineer at Teachers Pay Teachers. Her team was tasked to de-risk important pages that were dynamically rendered on mobile which they completed in two months.
While learning all about SEO and mobile-first indexing she also is taking a class in beginner Japanese and finished a Financial Coach program.