JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Mackenzie is a developer advocate with a passion for DevOps and code security. As the co-founder and former CTO of a health tech startup, he learnt first-hand how critical it is to build secure applications with robust developer operations. Today as a Developer Advocate at GitGuardian, Mackenzie is able to share his passion for code security with developers and works closely with research teams to show how malicious actors discover and exploit vulnerabilities in code.

Matan is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, speaker and a tech blog writer. He is a React enthusiast and a Testing Library maintainer who's aiming to understand how things work rather than satisfying on a given API. Matan believes that knowledge is worth nothing if not spread.

Claudio Wunder is a Senior Software Engineer at HubSpot and works on the experimentation and tracking team. He's also a member of the GNOME Foundation and part of the Cross Project Council at the OpenJS Foundation. He mentors, coaches, and contributes to open-source projects in his free time.

From an early age, Moritz was fascinated by computers and technology. This passion led him to pursue a degree in IT and while still studying, Moritz met his future co-founder. The duo quickly started the journey of founding their own tech startup in the headless CMS domain: caisy. As the CTO of caisy, Moritz melds his robust background in software development with an entrepreneurial passion. He has one clear mission building the core of his work: to simplify content management for fellow developers.

Lee (larowlan) has been a major contributor to Drupal (🙀) for over 12 years. Lee is a Drupal core Framework manager, member of the Drupal security team and is passionate about code quality. More recently he has turned his focus to JavaScript, most notably React, Gatsby and Next.js, with Drupal's move to being a headless-first CMS. Lee was one of the primary architects of Drupal's testing architecture and champions automated testing and build processes. Lee has worked on several of Australia's largest websites during his 9 years as a Senior Developer with one of Australia's most trusted agencies: PreviousNext.

Michael Carter has over 30 years experience developing applications. He was one of the first to get a Remix license. He hangs out on the Remix Discord as well as GitHub and Twitter helping other developers. He has created many packages and tools to enhance your Remix apps.

Software Engineer in the React Native Foundations team.

Suffers from Application Development Disorder. With over 25+ years of experience designing and developing software from fortune 50 companies to being employee #1 at start ups. An affinity for open source software, community and believes in using the right tools for the right job, even if the right tool needs to be invented.

Author of RescriptRelay and host of RelayMeetup.com. Partner at Arizon, a Swedish IT-consultancy and startup incubator. Loving GraphQL, Relay and ReScript.

Meet Garth Henson, a seasoned tech enthusiast with a rich career spanning big tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft, as well as the enchanting worlds of Disney and Lucasfilm. With a primary focus on full-stack web and cloud architecture, Garth has navigated the digital realm with expertise. Currently, he is the leader of product, design, and engineering at CareAcademy, where he is dedicated to shaping a smarter future in healthcare. As an active startup advisor and mentor, Garth has shared his wisdom and guidance with both students and budding entrepreneurs alike.

Currently on the UI Platform team at Uber. Focused on design systems (baseweb.design), open source (multiple popular react libraries as react-movable or react-portal), CSS in JS and great user/developer experiences. Previously building product at Cloudflare.

Endel is the creator of Colyseus, an open-source multiplayer framework for Node.js.

Software Architect at AnimaApp, Creator of Espanso.org. An engineer with a strong passion for tech, programming and products. Besides working hard to automate the boring parts of front-end development, he also enjoys building side projects, giving talks and cooking.

Lead maintainer for 📦🔒 Verdaccio • 👨🏽‍💻 React and Node.js developer • Open Source believer

Meet Alice, also known as "biskuwi," a software engineer in past and now an electronic music producer and DJ hailing from Stockholm, Sweden. With a rich musical history spanning over 25 years, Alice's journey into the world of music began at the tender age of 7. Over the years, she has graced the stages of prestigious festivals and clubs, including Germany's second-largest electronic music festival, SonneMond Sterne, as well as venues like Harry Klein, Ritter Butzke, and Södra Teatern, among others. Her music has garnered support from some of the industry's most prominent DJs, including Solomun, Mathame, Kevin de Vries, Yotto, Lane8, Fideles, Binaryh, Matchy, 8Kays, Richie Hawtin, Moonwalk, Undercatt and many others. Additionally, her latest track, 'Termination,' reached No. 1 on the Beatport Melodic Techno Top 100 songs chart, showcasing her enduring influence and popularity. Alice's music has also made its mark on various Spotify Editorial playlists, including Techno Bunker, Electronic Circus, Beats to Think To, Low Key Tech, Open Air, Beats of Tomorrow and Tunnel Vision solidifying her status as a trailblazing artist in the electronic music scene. Notably, she has graced the cover of the renowned "Electronic Rising" playlist four times further cementing her reputation as an artist on the rise.

Asad has spent past decade building various types of devtools including a SaaS for online IDE and a semi-viral web framework. Currently, Asad is building Playroom (joinplayroom.com), a multiplayer game SDK for web games.

Michael Hablich is a Product Manager at Google working on Chrome. There he focuses on removing friction for developers that need to test and debug web applications. In the past he worked as a developer, tester, agile coach, program manager, and engineering manager. He enjoys spending time with his daughters, rock climbing, and scuba diving.

Michael is a developer keen on the people side of things. He loves pairing, and in particular with people new to writing software. He especially likes driving software out with tests and directing the evolution of the design. In his spare time, he does a bit of paddle boarding, camping and watching any one of his 4 kids excel above anything he ever managed to achieve.

Jason is an Architect at Nrwl on the Nx Core Team. He works with Fortune 500 companies across different industries to enable them to develop like Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Along with development, Jason is also an enthusiast of board games and mechanical keyboards.

Pooja Mistry(@poojamakes) is a Developer Advocate at Postman, an API platform with over 25 million users. She is passionate about the intersection of technology and community, and she works to expand the reach of Postman’s API Platform to developers worldwide. Before working at Postman, Pooja led the Partnership Advocacy Program at IBM and worked to build communities around sharing technology insights in the API, APIOps, Integration, and Data and AI space. Pooja loves to learn, teach, and share her knowledge with developers. Along with being a proud plant mom, she strongly believes in helping new technologists get up and running with technology and feel confident in their abilities to make!

Guillermo thinks that crafting software is more like gardening. He’s been dealing with legacy codebases for as long as he can remember and has helped several teams improve their skills around it.

Josefine is currently a Developer Relations Engineer at Storyblok, a Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies and a Girl Code Ambassador. She is passionate about advocating for Accessibility and making the web a little more inclusive, one page at a time.

Oren Rubin is the founder and CEO of Testim, an AI-based test automation platform that speeds the authoring of resilient end-to-end tests. Oren has over 22 years of experience in the software industry, building mostly test-related products for developers at IBM, Wix, Cadence, Applitools, and Testim.io. In addition to being a busy entrepreneur, Oren is a community activist and the co-organizer of the Selenium-Israel meetup and the Israeli Google Developer Group meetup. He has taught at Technion University and mentored at the Google Launchpad Accelerator.

Alex is a Developer Advocate at Prisma, where he's working to make databases easy and fun. He loves learning and teaching other developers. Every once in a while, he procrastinates by preaching to other developers to adopt Ts. He's also a mediocre photographer at best – but the camera covers that up for him.