JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

Kateryna is an engineer from Ukraine with 10+ years of experience in UI development and design, currently leading front-end direction at Buffer. She is passionate about accessible web, design systems and making complex things simple. Apart from work, she is active in tech community, organises board game nights and is known as a coffee snob.

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.

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.

Lee (larowlan) has been a major contributor to Drupal (🙀) for over 16 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, Redux 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 13 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.

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

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.

Jorge is an Engineering Manager on the React team at Meta, where he supports the developer experience and open source efforts, working on projects like React Native's stability, Metro, React DevTools, and the React Native DevTools. He has a background in cross-platform mobile development and has previously led engineering teams at Citymapper and Meta Reality Labs, working on products that explore new interaction paradigms and emergent platforms. With over 20 years of experience, Jorge is passionate about building software that empowers developers. In his free time, he enjoys cycling, tinkering with old hardware and emulators.

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.

Hi! I’m a humanist & technologist who loves working with the web. I build products, often involving a heavy dose of backend Node.js services. Having confidence that these services work as designed allows me to iterate faster and provide value. So, good thing then I’m also the core maintainer of AVA, the Node.js test runner that lets you develop with confidence.

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.

Software Engineer in the React Native Foundations team.

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

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.

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 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.

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!

I'm David and work as a software developer on Deno. In the past, I worked professionally in the medical device and healthcare industry. I maintain several TypeScript related open source projects and have been using TypeScript for almost 10 years.

Nils Hartmann is a freelance software architect, developer and trainer from Hamburg. He mainly works with Java, JavaScript/TypeScript and React.