JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

Ruben Bridgewater is member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee (TSC) and works as Principal IT Architect for MaibornWolff GmbH. His main emphasis is building powerful and easy-to-use APIs for scalable and fast applications. He is continuously working with the V8 team and the TC39 committee to improve the developer experience with JavaScript.

Luca is the Co-Founder and CEO of Platformatic.dev, on the mission to evolve and make frictionless backend development. Luca’s passion for the tech industry started at the young age of just 6 years old when he began coding. Since then Luca founded and successfully exited 3 companies. While managing large teams, he has designed and delivered large-scale real-time systems for some of the industry leaders in gaming, banking and mobile technologies. Before his last role as CTO at mobileLIVE, he was VP of Engineering at CTO.ai, after leading the technology strategy and vision at Telus Digital as Chief Architect. Luca’s core focus is on creating business value through building out, architecting and overseeing Cloud Technology, Big Data , AI, APIs, Micro-Front-ends and large distributed systems.

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.

Jamal Sinclair O’Garro is a senior software engineer at Netflix that has a keen eye for product design and is able to not only architect systems but can also handle design from a UX and "look and feel" perspective. Before Netflix, he single handedly designed and architected over 15 production desktop applications both for Citadel and Citadel Securities. Some of these systems process billions of dollars of orders and trades daily. Jamal is a published author, is heavily involved in the tech scene and runs two of New York City's largest tech meetups (~14,000 members combined). He has also had the honor of being invited to speak about technology, and diversity at the White House, United Nations, New York University, Columbia University and Harvard Business School. Jamal has also been featured or quoted in Fortune, Forbes, TechCrunch, CNN/Money and Black Enterprise and has taught web development at Columbia University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Nathan has been working on .io multiplayer game developer for 7 years, helping build & scale games like Krunker.io, Diep.io, and Ev.io over seven years. He's a fan of games that are easy to learn but challenging to master. Away from coding, he’s often found trail running and doing photography. Currently, he’s building open-source tools to help multiplayer game devs with distribution at Rivet.

Alessia lives in New York City with her wife, son, and rambunctious cat. She loves ECMAScript, building in the open, and making plotter art with her two trusty drawing robots.

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.

Andre is a full stack developer from Germany. He graduated with an MS in Information Systems from the Technical University of Munich and was also awarded an MS in Computer Science from Sofia University in Palo Alto. Andre currently lives in Cupertino, California, and he works as a Software Engineer. Andre loves learning, writing, and speaking about all things web. In his free time, he tutors aspiring developers and builds for the web.

Lirone Glikman is an International Keynote Speaker, thought leader specializing in Networking and Personal Branding, and a Global Business Development Consultant for tech companies. She has been working with developers for over a decade and very passionate about helping others succeed through her methodologies.

Software Engineer at Postman. I build scalable and reactive web apps with React and some caffeine! OSS contributor and maintainer @ OSSN Blogger @Medium Speaker

Bree is a frontend Software Engineer turned Developer Advocate at HubSpot. She has a passion for coding and making technology education accessible to everyone. Bree creates technical content to help developers create and build autonomously.

Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer @ Wonder Interactive

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.

Full Stack Developer with 10+ years of working experience in different sorts of frontend & backend frameworks, author on dev.to and medium with focus on Web Technologies, Modern Frameworks, sustainability and performance optimisation. In his free time he enjoys skiing and windsurfing, depending on the season. Dimitris is passionate about contributing towards a faster and more sustainable web.

Abbey Perini is many things - a metro Atlanta native, a person of many hobbies, and a full-stack web developer. She loves blogging about fun and useful things about programming. You can find her work and ways to connect with her at [abbeyperini.dev](https://abbeyperini.dev).

Full Stack Engineer turned Engineering Manager with more than 8 years' of experience building products for numerous domains like e-commerce, real estate, video-streaming, Fin-Tech and now Insurance Tech with Qoala.

Shahbaz is a full stack developer and open source enthusiast, Developer Advocate @ Magic Labs, GDG Ranchi Organizer, Auth0 Ambassador, and Mozilla Representative. He loves teaching and sharing his learnings at conferences and meetups related to Serverless, Authentication and Authorization, Google Technologies, Security, Web Extensions, SPAs, PWAs and VR/AR/XR.

Hi, I’m Harsh Shah. I am a self-taught developer I am currently working as CTO at Pedals Up Blockchain Studio & Polygon Advocate. I started my coding journey in 2009. That was the first time when I ran my first code in the C language “Hello World!”. Then after there was no look back, I learned C, C++, Html, CSS, Javascript, Python, SQL and many more technical languages & frameworks. I am always a curious person about technology. When I started working in the industry, I worked with various Startup Companies across the globe, like Elemetor, KDE(GSOC), Wikimedia(GSOC), Mokko(USA Based), Dataone, Pycon Taiwan, etc. I am also a community builder. I started my first community at college with the help of some of my friends, Then after I started contributing to other communities like Makerfest, GDG Ahmedabad, Echai, Pydata, and IIT-B Ecell. Currently, I am a co-organizer of GDG Cloud Ahmedabad & Pydata Ahmedabad. I am also a Polygon Advocate. I have given more than 30+ talks on several topics like Google Cardboard (VR), Google Cloud Tech (GCP), Python tech, React Js, React Native, and Design Systems at the Local & Global levels. Currently, I am also working on Web 3 space for the last 3 years. And worked with more than 10+ startups in the Web 3 space. We at Pedals Up(company) work with clients like, Biconomy, Nord Finance, Pillow Funds, Scallop, Kalamint, NFT, and so on.

I'm Sabin Adams, and I've been working in web development for about ten years now. I love solving problems and making tools that make developers' lives easier, and currently, I work as a developer advocate for Prisma. Teaching, speaking, and writing about web development is my passion!

Selena is a full-stack lead engineer at Fresho in Melbourne Australia who is particularly passionate about TDD. As a self-taught coder with a background in management, she is well-equipped to mentor others. In her spare time, she is a nak muay ying, professional kickboxer.

Executive Talent Agent | Part-time PhD Researcher

Naomi is a Software Development Engineer at Adobe on the Globalization, Core Services team where she works on the internationalization and localization of Creative Cloud and Document Cloud products. Before writing JavaScript full time, Naomi worked as a teacher across Asia and West Africa. She enjoys weekends outside - hiking, camping, and riding bikes.

Developer Tooling Engineer & Open Sourcerer. Creator of quirrel.dev, L2 Maintainer of Blitz.js. Studying at HPI.