JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

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.

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

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.

Charlotte Isambert is a software mobile architect at bam.tech, a company specialized in mobile apps, with a big React Native tribe. She has been a React Native developer for 2 years.

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!

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.

Abbey Perini is many things - a metro Atlanta native, a person of many hobbies, and a full-stack web developer. Passionate about accessibility, she's worked in Vue, React, and even AngularJS (2013). She's happiest problem solving in the front-end, back-end, and all the APIs and microservices in between. She's spent her development career rectifying tech debt in existing codebases. She loves blogging and speaking about fun and useful things about programming, especially if it helps other developers.

Executive Talent Agent | Part-time PhD Researcher

Tom is a software engineer and game developer with a passion for creating and sharing educational content. With 15 years of experience in the industry, he has honed his skills in Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot. As the lead engineer in Heroic Labs' DevRel team and creator of the popular YouTube channel CodeWithTom, Tom creates engaging educational content to empower the next generation of game developers.

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

From a background in DevOps, Systems Administration, and SRE, edunham has recently taken the leap into developer advocacy to spread information about which tools and approaches fit which problems well, and to gather real-world feedback that helps Okta improve its products. Outside of work, you'll often find them anonymously automating annoyingly manual workflows in their favorite online games, gardening, and getting interrogated about whether they have or are food by several chickens and a cat.

Self-taught since 13 yo, I am passionate about web development, more recently, especially about the JavaScript and GraphQL ecosystems. Strong of more than 9 years of professional experience in companies such as Dashlane, including more than 3 years in a Technical leadership position at Algolia, and early-stage companies; I also talked at many international conferences, including the well-known React Europe 2019 conference and wrote many reference articles on TypeScript, React, and GraphQL relayed by recognized international newsletters such as GraphQL Weekly and TypeScript Weekly. After working as a freelance providing coaching, training, and consulting services, I joined The Guild to work full-time on the GraphQL ecosystem.

Kellen Mace works on the Developer Relations team at WP Engine. He and his team produce content on how to build modern JavaScript apps powered by headless WordPress backends at [developers.wpengine.com](http://developers.wpengine.com/). He is a contributor to WPGraphQL and the creator of the WPGraphQL for Gravity Forms plugin. He has been building and launching production headless WordPress applications for a number of years, and loves teaching others how to do the same.

Devrel at Baserow.io :avocado: Nuxt and WTM ambassador, sharing good vibes and helping people.

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.

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.

Full-stack engineer and technology researcher. Leads Security Lab team at MetaMask working on LavaMoat and Endo. Started using Node.js at v0.8 and never stopped. Enjoys innovating and teaching security, diagnostics and maintainability. One of the oldest members of meet.js Poland community - both as a speaker and organizer. Hacking JavaScript since his teenage years.

Loren is a Language Runtime Engineer at Temporal, maintaining the TypeScript runtime. They also wrote a book on GraphQL (The GraphQL Guide) and spent over a decade doing full-stack web and mobile development. They love swing dancing and authentic relating, and they secretly miss CoffeeScript 😄.

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.

Iwo Plaza is a software engineer & artist, trying to incorporate art into every project he gets his hands on. He's passionate about graphics programming and softening the learning curve for future developers trying to get into it. Author of TypeGPU and numerous interactive examples and games built using WebGPU for Web and React Native. His combined experience with C++ game engines and TypeScript's type system allow him to lead the project in a unique direction.

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.

My background includes 10 years experience in Web development and currently venturing into Machine Learning, I am deeply passionate about empowering and inspiring others, which is why I proudly serve as a Women Techmaker Ambassador, dedicated to sharing my knowledge and experiences with the community and fostering diversity in the tech industry.

Tyler has a passion for the web and loves everything about the front-end ecosystem. He currently works as a Senior Developer Advocate at Auth0 as well as an instructor on egghead.io. He teaches on a wide range of topics which includes everything from CSS to SQL.