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!
Thomas Findlay
Findlay Web Tech, UK
Thomas Findlay is a 5 star rated mentor, full-stack developer, consultant, speaker, and technical writer. He is the author of "Vue - The Road To Enterprise" and "React - The Road To Enterprise" books and works with many different technologies such as JavaScript, Vue, Nuxt, React, Next, React Native, Node.js, Tailwind, Firebase, Python, and more. He has obtained MSc in Advanced Computer Science degree with Distinction at Exeter University, as well as First-Class BSc in Web Design & Development at Northumbria University.
Over the years, Thomas has worked with many developers and teams from beginners to advanced and helped them build and scale their applications and products. He also mentored a lot of developers and students and helped them progress in their careers.

Lindsey Simon
Vercel, USA
Lindsey Simon is the VP of Engineering at Vercel. Making the Web faster has been his lifelong career ambition. Prior to Vercel, Lindsey spent seven years at Google, where he helped launch App Engine as an original core team member, and worked as a tech lead on the Google Translate and Web Performance teams. Lindsey has lived in San Francisco for the past 15 years, and his creative hobbies (beyond coding) include writing music and hunting for wild mushrooms.

Maya Nedeljković Batić
Linear, Serbia
Maya is a software engineer who has been creating complex frontend products for almost a decade. From workflow editors and no-code expert knowledge automation, to data labeling tools for image, video and medical data, she’s seen it all—or at least a lot of it. She studied fine arts painting and game development, but her passion is JavaScript and the web. She is bridging the gap between these different worlds with explorations in Three.js, WebGL, and 3D art.

Callum Macrae
Author of Vue.js: Up and Running, UK
Callum Macrae is a developer and occasional musician based in London, UK, with a passion for using JavaScript to solve complicated problems. His current favourite things to work with are Vue and SVGs (but only sometimes at the same time). He is the author of Vue.js: Up and Running, a book about getting started with Vue. He can be found on Twitter and GitHub as @callumacrae.

Ejiro Asiuwhu
Veet, Nigeria
Ejiro Asiuwhu is a product engineer who works at the intersection of software, product, and design.
He's bullish on leveraging technology to solve user problems and create magical experiences, focusing ruthlessly on what users care about. He is also a co-founder and product engineer at Veet.
Matheus Albuquerque
Medallia, Czech Republic
Matheus is a Staff Front-End Engineer at Medallia, building their surveys platform and helping them shape the customer experience market with React, and a Google Developer Expert in Web Performance.
His areas of interest include React and its ecosystem, JS and compile-to-JS languages, DX, and perceived performance optimization. Aside from public speaking about these, he also volunteers at TechLabs, teaching front-end development.

Robin Ginn
OpenJS Foundation, USA
Robin Bender Ginn is the Executive Director of the OpenJS Foundation. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, OpenJS is the neutral home to grow and sustain the JavaScript and web ecosystem with 35 projects including Appium, Electron, Jest, jQuery, Node.js and webpack. Previously, Robin led major initiatives at Microsoft to advance open source technologies, community development, and open standards.

Daniel Afonso
PagerDuty, Portugal
Daniel Afonso is a Senior Developer Advocate at PagerDuty, SolidJS DX team member, Instructor at Egghead.io, and Author of State Management with React Query. Daniel has a full-stack background, having worked with different languages and frameworks on various projects from IoT to Fraud Detection. He is passionate about learning and teaching and has spoken at multiple conferences around the world about topics he loves. In his free time, when he's not learning new technologies or writing about them, he's probably reading comics or watching superhero movies and shows.

John Reilly
Investec, UK
Long-time Londoner, born in Bristol and raised in Fleet.
I blog at https://blog.johnnyreilly.com and I work/have worked on a number of open-source TypeScript projects including:
- Definitely Typed
- ts-loader
- fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin
I also wrote the history of Definitely Typed: https://blog.johnnyreilly.com/2019/10/08/definitely-typed-movie.

Brian Whippo
Algorand Foundation, USA
Brian heads global developer relations at Algorand Foundation, where he helps devs learn, integrate, apply, and contribute to Algorand's open source blockchain technology to solve real world problems. Before joining the Foundation, Brian led global strategic technology transformation programs at Morgan Stanley, where he worked with commodities, exchange and OTC derivatives, Prime Brokerage, Brexit preparations, and digital assets over 15 years. When not on his laptop, he's probably cooking up something creative, literally or figuratively.
Maurice de Beijer
Independent Software Consultant and Trainer, Netherlands
Maurice de Beijer is an independent software consultant and trainer. He specializes in TypeScript, ECMAScript, React and Svelte. His work includes popular collaboration software as well as a large, global, safety application for the oil and gas industry. He has a preference for working with startups and smaller, more dynamic companies. Maurice is also active in the open source community. He teaches ECMAScript, TypeScript, React, Cypress, Playwright and RxJS courses. Since 2005, he has received Microsoft’s Yearly Most Valuable Professional Award. Further, Maurice is active in the Dutch dotNed user group and helps organize its meetings.

Ana Rodrigues
Hactar, UK
Ana works as a front-end developer for the agency Hactar. She started coding as a teenager building fan sites, and has been working as a front-end developer for the last 11 years. Nowadays, Ana spends most of her free time experimenting on her personal blog and is particularly interested in ethics, IndieWeb, sustainability, plants, cooking, privacy and all things CSS.

Nathalia Rus
Custodian, UK
Co-Founder of Custodian, VC-backed insurtech startup based in London. Nathalia also created Metos - metos.app, a platform for writers. French multi-awards technologist, you can find her on instagram at @yeahgirlscode where she documents her journey in tech. Outside of coding, Nathalia trains in Muay Thai and enjoys playing different musical instruments.