JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Lirone Glikman is an International Keynote Speaker, thought leader specializing in Networking and Personal Branding, and a Global Business Development Consultant for tech companies. She has been working with developers for over a decade and very passionate about helping others succeed through her methodologies.

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.

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

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

Fred is a passionate and (very 😅) opinionated builder. He's been in the infrastructure space, and in particular in serverless technologies back when they were new-age. He built Lift, to help people ship piece of infrastructure without previous knowledge, and then built Revant to help those same people reduce their newly generated infra cost... He's also been part of the AWS community builder team for 5 years. He's now building with Alpic the missing infrastructure layer for the new agentic internet where AI consume services instead of human. He's working full time on Skybridge, a new open-source framework to build ChatGPT and MCP Apps.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Web developer and graphic designer. Creator of Aleph.js and esm.sh.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lee Robinson is the VP of Developer Experience at Vercel, where he helps developers build a faster web. He leads the community for the React framework Next.js and is an open-source contributor.

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 😄.

An experienced games developer with over a decade’s worth of experience ranging from AAA console games, XR and F2P mobile games for some of the largest companies in the games industry. Loves to learn, solve problems and challenges, be it technical, managerial or design related to create user impact and experiences. Worked with cross discipline teams, both large and small, mentored team members and students and has managed multiple stakeholders to build cohesive project roadmaps. Wants to create great products and have some fun along the way (๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ