JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

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.

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.

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.

Co-authored the Packt book Practical Enterprise React; Devlin has been using HTML, CSS, and TypeScript to build web apps and mobile apps for their customers for years. He has been a Microsoft MVP and an on-site React trainer for 7 years.

Olena is a seasoned expert in data, sustainable software development, and teamwork. With a background in software engineering, she's led teams and developed mission-critical applications at Nokia, HERE Technologies, and AWS. Currently, she works at Aiven where she supports developers and customers in using open-source data technologies such as Apache Kafka, ClickHouse, and OpenSearch. She is also an international public speaker and regularly present at conferences around the world. She holds AWS Developer and Solutions Architect certifications, and is also a Confluent Catalyst.

Tech Entrepreneur | Ex-Founder Raised ₹1.5CR in College | Co-Founder & CTO of SaaS Product ( 2 Company ) | DevOps Engineer Game Industory | Cloud Enthusiast

Matt Landers leads the DevRel team at WP Engine, after joining the company in 2019 as a Technical Architect who was (and still is) super passionate about headless. That passion ultimately played a major role in the release of Atlas, which pairs WP Engine’s industry-leading WordPress platform with Node.js hosting to enable headless solutions using modern frameworks and technologies like React, Vue, and more. Before joining WP Engine, he served as Technology Evangelist at Microsoft, where he educated developers on the advantages of adopting .NET and worked with Fortune 100 companies to build some of the largest enterprise systems as an Architect. Additionally, Matt founded Covalence, a coding bootcamp, channeling his passion for teaching developers.

Dr. Florian Rappl is a solution architect from Germany who specializes in the creation of scalable distributed web applications. He is almost exclusively working on micro frontend solutions. Florian is a long-time Microsoft MVP in the development tools area.

Mikhail Burtsev is a head of Neural Networks and Deep Learning Laboratory at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He is also a founder and leader of open-source conversational AI framework DeepPavlov. Mikhail had proposed and co-organize a series of academic Conversational AI Challenges (including NIPS 2017, NeurIPS 2018, EMNLP 2020). His research interests are in the fields of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Complex Systems. Mikhail Burtsev has published more than 20 technical papers including – Nature, Artificial Life, Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and other peer-reviewed venues.

Bartek started contributing to Deno in late 2018, becoming the first employee to Deno Land in December 2019. Currently leading the CLI team.

Chairperson of the Defold Foundation, overseeing development of the free and source available Defold game engine. Co-founder of Refold. Worked with mobile game development since before the smart phones. Enjoys old school games and traditional roguelikes.

Lukonde is a Principal Technical Evangelist at SUSE and is an AWS Container Hero. He specializes in cloud and DevOps engineering and cloud-native technologies. He is passionate about sharing knowledge through various mediums and engaging with the developer community at large.

Recently diving into the entrepreneurship world with the mission of expanding the Web3 Community through The ChainAcademy Full Stack SDET with +16 years of Experience in QA, +14 years of Experience in Test Automation, and +9 years in Leadership, Delivering and Releasing Software on different platforms (Mobile, Desktop, Web) TechWomen 2023 Awards Winner and became a STEM Ambassador, Google Developer Experts and a STEM Women Member making an impact and bringing more people to the STEM area.

Pillippa is a dedicated software developer and avid React enthusiast, fueled by her innate curiosity and zeal for learning. Hailing from a small town and growing up in a large family, she embraced the virtues of persistence and determination from a young age. Pillippa's keen focus on innovation and the practical application of new knowledge drives her exploration of diverse features in web development. As an active participant within the community, she aspires to inspire and collaborate with fellow developers, fostering a collective spirit of growth and advancement.

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.

Computer programmer from India currently building enterprise products for the web. Tech speaker, open source software author and contributor. Community leader for React Delhi-NCR and Open Source Delhi. Plays drums (occasionally), loves travelling, listening to rock music and playing video games.

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.

Moataz has over 12 years of experience in testing and development roles across industries such as agriculture, telecom, healthcare, fashion, and food delivery. Moataz is currently a Developer Advocate at Bitrise, helping mobile engineers deliver fast, reliable, and secure mobile apps. He also helps companies build their own developer productivity teams. As well as being an AWS Community Builder, he also teaches on TAU and Udemy. His experience includes building automation projects for large and distributed projects from scratch.

Tamar is a software developer, manager and architect. She has a decade of software engineering experience in various technologies: Server side, big data, mobile, web technologies, and security. She is currently focusing on Node.js, and has a deep knowledge of Node.js server architecture and Node.js performance optimisations.

Founder of Theodo, a tech consultancy he scaled with Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle from 10 to 700 people in 10 years. He worked on his first large legacy modernisation in 2008 and has been back in the trenches to experiment first-hand how AI is revolutionising this challenge. Fabrice has shared his Lean Tech and AI modernisation expertise at various conferences, including CraftConf, DevopsDays and Lean Summits.

CEO & Co-founder at deidei | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Comms specialist | She/her

Founder & CEO at Grafbase

Santosh is an Open web advocate, an Ambassador at the Interledger Foundation. He writes Vanilla JS for Breakfast and tweets at @isantoshv. Santosh was previously a Tech Speaker and a Participation Leader at Mozilla. As a Tech Speaker, he delivered talks on Javascript, WebVR, Cross-Platform browser extensions, and Devtools in the past at various tech conferences. In recognition of his contributions to Mozilla, his name is featured in the about:credits of every shipped Firefox browser.