JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Explore personalities and their talks, workshops, videos, and articles. While we focus primarily on JavaScript and frameworks like React, Vue, Svelte, and Node, you may find experts on other fields on our Portal. To name a few – Testing, DevOps, Machine Learning, and many more!
Delba de Oliveira
Delba de Oliveira
Vercel, UK
Delba is interested in helping developers build great web applications. She’s a hobbyist videographer and Senior Developer Advocate at Vercel; where she creates educational content by combining her love for video and code.
Jimmy Bogard
Jimmy Bogard
Jimmy Bogard Consulting LLC, USA
Jimmy is a software architect and consultant. He created the OSS libraries AutoMapper, MediatR, and Respawn. He helps teams build systems faster, better, and more maintainable.
Sunil Pai
Sunil Pai
Cloudflare, UK
Sunil works on the Workers Developer Productivity team at Cloudflare. Previously, he's worked on the React team in Facebook, built out the Javascript stack at Myntra, and a whole list of other product and infrastructure teams in his career. He can be found on twitter as @threepointone, or annoying his neighbors in London playing his Les Paul a little too loud.
Steve Ruiz
Steve Ruiz
tldraw, UK
Steve Ruiz has a background in fine art and is currently founder and CEO of tldraw. He has become known for his build-in-public style on social media, where he shares the iterative creation process that originally brought tldraw to life.
Adrian Hajdin
Adrian Hajdin
JS Mastery, Croatia
Seasoned software engineer, educator, and a GitHub star passionate about technical education. I enjoy making learning simple through hands-on teaching and a project-based approach. Five years ago, I started the JavaScript Mastery YouTube channel, which became one of the largest technical education YouTube channels for intermediate to advanced developers in the JavaScript ecosystem.
Saurav Jain
Saurav Jain
Apify, Senior Developer Community Manager, India, New Delhi.
Saurav Jain, Apify's Developer Community Manager, excels in community building and devrel. With a history of growing Amplication's community to 40K, he now enhances Apify's developer engagement. An international speaker, he has contributed to PyCon Ireland, PyCon Italy, and more. His work bridges developers globally, fostering innovation and collaboration within the tech ecosystem. His expertise and passion for technology make him a pivotal figure in nurturing tech communities.
Shedrack Akintayo
Shedrack Akintayo
Software Developer, Developer Advocate, Technical Writer, Nigeria
Shedrack is a Developer Advocate and Technical Writer from Lagos, Nigeria. He loves community building, open source, and a has knack for improving developer experience of developer focused products.
Christian Nwamba
Christian Nwamba
Amazon, UK
Chris Nwamba is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS focusing on AWS Amplify. He’s also a teacher and with years of experience building products and communities.
 Francesco D'Alessio
Francesco D'Alessio
Tool Finder, United Kingdom
Francesco D'Alessio is a software reviewer that focuses on productivity tools. Building Keep Productive for over 10 years into a YouTube channel with over 400K+ subscribers, he now builds Tool Finder with co-founder Karl Hadwen to help people find tools.
Maggie Appleton
Maggie Appleton
Ought, UK
Maggie is a designer-developer-anthropologist-hybrid at egghead.io. She spends her time designing visual metaphors for invisible programming concepts, helping developers explain their wildly abstract thoughts, and overanalysing the JavaScript community’s strange cultural beliefs. She's also a digital gardening enthusiast and a Marmite lover.
Ben Holmes
Ben Holmes
Warp, USA
Ben is a full-stack developer, open source maintainer, and whiteboardist making the web a little better. You'll find him hacking on warp.dev or sharing bite-sized learnings on YouTube.
Tejas Kumar
Tejas Kumar
DataStax, Germany
Tejas Kumar is an international keynote speaker, best selling author, and host of the developer-loved ConTejas Code podcast with an engineering background spanning 23 years, from design to frontend to backend to devops. Today, Tejas shares talks at large with developer communities worldwide, equipping them to do their best work.
Lin Clark
Lin Clark
Fastly, USA
Lin Clark is a Senior Principal Engineer at Fastly, focusing on WebAssembly. She is a co-founder of the Bytecode Alliance, which is driving WebAssembly’s outside-the-browser ecosystem forward. Many people know her through her long-running series, Code Cartoons, which helps people make sense of various WebAssembly standards and the ecosystem's overall direction. Previously, she has worked on web standardization and devtools at Mozilla, helped people understand the JS ecosystem at npm, and was a Drupal core module maintainer.
Cassie Evans
Cassie Evans
GreenSock, UK
Cassie is an international speaker, and creative developer with a background in graphic design and motion design. She got started with coding back in the days of Myspace and Neopets and is on a mission to make the web more whimsical again.
Sara Vieira
Sara Vieira
Orama, UK
Sara is a developer relations engineer at Orama. Author of The Opinionated Guide to React. Open Source enthusiast. Conference Speaker. Talk to her about Retro Games or Airports.
Rachel Nabors
Rachel Nabors
DevX consultant, USA
Rachel Nabors has spearheaded developer education at FAANG companies like Amazon and startups like Clerk and participated in web standards and open source with Mozilla, the W3C, and Microsoft. They have built award-winning dev portals for React and React Native with the core teams at Meta. They are currently roaming the world, working on opensource projects that teach the world to code from their home base in London.
Erick Wendel
Erick Wendel
Erick Wendel Training, Brazil
Erick Wendel is a Node.js Core Team Developer, Keynote Speaker, and professional educator. He's delivered over 100 tech talks in 10+ countries and has been recognized as a Node.js Specialist with awards from Google, Microsoft, and GitHub. With his company https://erickwendel.com, Erick has trained over 100K people worldwide.
Shashi Lo
Shashi Lo
Microsoft, USA
Senior UX Engineer @Microsoft with over 19 years of experience. He actively shares insights on software development, open-source contributions, and emerging technologies. His work reflects a commitment to clean code, continuous learning, and community engagement.
Sam Selikoff
Sam Selikoff
Vercel, USA
Sam Selikoff is a software engineer on the Next.js team at Vercel. Previously he taught frontend development for over eight years through his podcast, in-person trainings and conference talks, and videos on Egghead, YouTube, and Build UI. He's also a software consultant. Prior to working for himself, he was a frontend engineer at TED Conferences.
Anjana Vakil
Anjana Vakil
USA
Anjana suffers from a chronic case of curiosity, which led her from philosophy to English teaching to computational linguistics to software development. As an internationally acclaimed public speaker & educator, her talks and courses on functional programming, JavaScript, and philosophical & linguistic perspectives on software engineering have reached millions of learners worldwide. These days she mostly codes & teaches from her dual home bases in the San Francisco Bay & Berlin, when not traveling (in a mask) to events around the world to speak about the joy of programming and advocate for a more equitable & ethical tech industry. Nerd out with her about programming paradigms, ask her about the Recurse Center & Outreachy, and definitely invite her to your karaoke party!
Jamon Holmgren
Jamon Holmgren
Infinite Red, USA
Jamon is a software developer, business owner, husband, and father of four, located near Portland, Oregon, in SW Washington state. He is one of the co-founders of Infinite Red, Inc., a fully remote React Native app development studio located in the USA and Canada.
Mark Erikson
Mark Erikson
Replay.io, USA
Mark Erikson is a Senior Front-End Engineer at Replay, and lives in southwest Ohio, USA. Mark is a Redux maintainer, creator of Redux Toolkit, and general keeper of the Redux docs. He tweets at @acemarke, and blogs at https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com. He spends much of his time answering questions about React and Redux anywhere there's a comment box on the internet, and usually hangs out in the Reactiflux chat channels.
Lee Byron
Lee Byron
GraphQL Foundation, USA
Co-creator of @GraphQL and Director of GraphQL Foundation. I make teams and things @RobinhoodApp, previously @Facebook
Feross Aboukhadijeh
Feross Aboukhadijeh
Socket, USA
Feross is founder and CEO at Socket (https://socket.dev), a developer-first security platform. Feross has worked in open source software for 10+ years writing some of the most-downloaded JavaScript packages. Feross is a lecturer at Stanford where he teaches CS 253 Web Security. Socket makes a developer-first security platform that prevents vulnerable and malicious open source dependencies from infiltrating your software supply chain. Thousands of organizations in every industry use Socket to safely discover, audit, and manage OSS at scale.