JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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Founder & CEO at Grafbase

Hila Fish is a Senior DevOps Engineer, with 15 years of experience in the tech industry. AWS Community Builder, Hashicorp Ambassador, and an international public speaker who believes the DevOps culture is what drives a company to perform at its best and talks about that and other DevOps/Infrastructure topics at conferences. She carries the vision to enhance and drive business success by taking care of its infrastructure. In her spare time, Hila is a lead singer of a cover band, giving back to the community by co-organizing DevOps-related conferences (Inc. "DevOpsDays TLV" & "StatsCraft" monitoring-focused event), providing mentorship and managing programs in “Baot” (The largest Israeli technical women’s community), and enjoys sharing her passion and knowledge wherever she can, including across diverse technology communities, initiatives and social media.

Matt Fellows is a core contributor to the Pact contract-testing framework, and co-founder of the microservices continuous delivery platform – Pactflow. A self-described polyglot who enjoys working at the intersection of technology, humans and ideas – ideally fully caffeinated. He's passionate about giving back to the tech community, sharing learnings at local meetups and conferences, and is a core contributor to the popular Pact microservices testing framework and author of the Muxy chaos testing tool. When not absorbing the Internet via osmosis, he can be found teaching kids at Code Club, playing basketball or pumping iron like Arnie.

Jamie Maria started as a native app developer but soon jumped into the world of JavaScript, Progressive Web Apps and Service Oriented Architectures. Driven by the urge for innovation she co-founded DEITY with the aim to improve the online world around her by introducing middleware and SOA as a standard to any e-commerce platform.

As a self-taught web developer, I quickly discovered my love for lightning-fast software - whether it's a website or an app. This passion has sent me on a long journey from fine-tuning websites to exploring the exciting world of Local First Software and peer-to-peer networking. Along the way, I can't help but ponder what our digital will look like, and how we can make it more secure, privacy-focused, and beneficial for humanity. Putting my money where my mouth is, I’m currently working on Tauri, a framework to build smaller, faster and more secure apps.

Staff Developer @ Shopify

Taley’a is a software engineer, she has been helping her team in building and maintaining the frontend architecture of products over the last three year. She is currently working on ReactJS and has experience in other web and mobile technologies. She is an active contributor in community and loves speaking in community events and conferences. She is also interested in reading, art and traveling.

I am from Bergamo, Italy, I have a son of 7 and a daughter of 4. I program since I was 10 (it was 1988, GW-BASIC on a IBM 8088) and develop web apps since 1996. I’m in love with React and my mission is making content editing fun with React Bricks. I play the piano, I try to play the guitar and I write songs. I like cooking and I'm interested in quantum mechanics.

As the Head of Operations and Developer Relations at Stately.ai, Jenny also dedicates her time to co-organizing Orlando JS meetups. Based in the heart of Orlando, Florida, Jenny is a passionate advocate for her community, imparting valuable insights on mental awareness, state machines, and various collaborative tools. When she's not engaging with users or gracing the stage, you can spot Jenny at your favorite local donut shop, savoring the simple joys of life!

Ashley is a software engineer at Bloomberg in the Trading Analytics team. He has been using TypeScript since v1.8 and contributed to the TypeScript implementation of the new 'Ergonomic brand checks for private fields' syntax. He is also a Bloomberg TC39 delegate currently working on the 'Change Array by copy' proposal.

Evyatar is a Front End Engineer at Meta. He is a strong advocate for open source software and is the author of several high-profile projects, including Vest validation framework and emoji-picker-react. Evyatar is passionate about API design, dev ergonomics, and building tools for developers.

I'm a frequent traveler, too much coffee drinker, and a constant Reddit lurker. Since Diablo 1 piqued my interest in learning how to program, I've been on a mission to continuously grow through my career and personal experiences as a Software Engineer. I hope to share the things I learn with the world!

Dan Kochetov, full stack web developer & system architect with 10 years of expertise, AWS expert, open source contributor, co-founder of Drizzle Team.

Creator of the GraphQL Code Generator library. Open source developer. CTO @ The Guild

Daniel Irvine is a soft ware consultant based in London. He works with a variety of languages including JavaScript and Ruby. He’s a mentor and coach for junior developers and runs TDD and XP workshops and courses. When he’s not working, he spends time cooking and practicing yoga. He co-founded the Queer Code London meetup and is an active member of the European software craft community.

My name is John Nguyen. I was born and raised in Berlin and I am currently working as a freelance Fullstack Engineer. I started my career in web development in 2013 with the LAMP stack and mainly used jQuery for a long time. Later, I got dragged into companies cloud migration where learned Serverless development, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methods. Fast forward to now, and I am a Fullstack Engineer with expertise in Cloud Engineering on AWS, Platform Engineering, and Fullstack Development.

Laurin Quast is a developer that started exploring GraphQL, by leading the private and later public API development at a start-up. Realizing that there are still many unsolved problems and challenges within the space, he started contributing to famous JavaScript libraries, such as GraphQL Code Generator and GraphQL Tools. Diving deeper and deeper, the transition into becoming a full-time open-source developer at The Guild was inevitable.

Vikash Agrawal is a Senior Engineer at Amazon Web Services, where he works on Amazon Q Developer, a Generative AI product for developers. With a strong background in leadership roles, he has previously led teams at Housing.com and Dream11. Vikash is a passionate advocate for open-source software, having contributed through the Google Summer of Code in 2012 with Mozilla and in 2013 with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

I’m a pasta eater biped working at DAZN as Principal Engineer. My areas of expertise are JavaScript and Front-End technologies with a DevOps flavour. I like Functional & Reactive solutions both for programming and architectures. I use spaces, not tabs.

After growing up with dead zones in Hawaii, Tiger wants to make apps that work offline and load fast. Today, he programs web apps as a senior engineer at Microsoft. Tiger is an enthusiastic member of the W3C working on new standards for the web, and has previously worked on Microsoft Edge, Firefox for Android, and Google Chrome. He creates art projects out of old devices, including junk phone wall decor and an e-reader tea menu. In his spare time, Tiger performs improv with his wife.

Giulio is an Italian software engineer working at Flux and contributing to open source with Poimandres. He's deeply passionate about pushing the web platform to its limits, building things like custom React reconcilers, real-time computer vision on Web Workers and flex layout engines for THREE.js.

David is Chief Technologist at SQUER, a Software Company based in Munich and Vienna, working with different stacks and environments but always an overarching mission: connect ideas and provide impact — with technology. He spends much of his time on the frontlines tackling the challenges of scaling software and complex domains, with a strong focus on cloud-native architectures and infrastructures. David enjoys sharing his knowledge as a conference speaker and lecturer for his post-diploma courses at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna.

Sahar is a software developer and a game enthusiast. She has been developing in the web and mobile platforms for years, but her childhood passion for games and gaming brought her to the game industry and her experience with web and mobile platforms gave her more insight to become an indie game dev. Starting with JavaScript web games made this passion burn brighter and she's been creating games ever since, working with different engines and experimenting with creating multiplayer and single player games.