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!

John Nguyen
Fullstack Engineer, Germany
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.

Jorge Rubiano
Huge, Colombia
Hi! I'm Jorge Rubiano, a passionate developer with several years of experience in the programming world. Throughout my career, I've discovered that one of the best ways to learn and teach is through personal projects, and in my case, games have been my greatest source of inspiration.
I love immersing myself in game development because not only are they fun, but they also provide a valuable opportunity to learn new technologies and concepts. Each game I create challenges me to explore and master emerging technologies, from frameworks to libraries, and even design concepts and game logic.

Priit Kallas
Amperly AI consultancy, Estonia
Priit Kallas is the founder and strategist of the Amperly.com AI consultancy. He has been an entrepreneur and marketer since 1996. His daily work involves improving his clients results with SEO, content marketing, Google, Analytics, ChatGPT, and artificial intelligence tools.
In his work, he has collaborated with many top brands in Estonia and Europe: Telia, Nordea, EAS, If Insurance, Peugeot, University of Tartu, Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund, European Institute of Innovation and Technology, Estonian Tax and Customs Board, SEB Bank, Tele2, and many others. He has created campaigns targeted both in Estonia and globally. Priit is a business mentor for several Estonian incubators.
Priit has shared his knowledge about using AI for business and productivity with more than 10,000 specialists, entrepreneurs, and marketers. He has had close to 1,000 training sessions, workshops, and conference presentations.
Priit has published over 1500 articles, videos, and podcasts. This material has been read, listened to, and viewed by over 12 million people worldwide. Priit is also a radio host at Äripäev Radio, Estonia’s to business news channel, helping Estonian marketers to get results.

Adam Ginsburg
Buzzy, Australia
Adam Ginsburg is the Founder and CEO of Buzzy, an innovative AI-powered no-code platform that enables users to transform ideas into applications quickly and efficiently. Under his leadership, Buzzy has gained recognition for simplifying the app development process, allowing users to create full-stack applications with minimal coding knowledge.
Prior to founding Buzzy, Ginsburg co-founded Aptrix, a company that was acquired by IBM and became part of IBM Web Content Manager. His experience in the tech industry spans multiple ventures, showcasing his strong background in product management and technology innovation.
In addition to his professional pursuits, Adam Ginsburg is a family man and an avid surfer, reflecting a well-rounded lifestyle that balances work and personal interests. He is known for his energetic and positive approach, making him a valued collaborator in the tech community.

Kamran Ayub
Kamranicus, USA
Kamran is a DevEd consultant who helps developer marketers create lean, mean lead-generating content cuisine. He writes about how to avoid fast food developer content marketing in his DevEd Test Kitchen newsletter and hosts DevEducate, a podcast about creating remarkable developer learning experiences. You can learn more at https://deved.love.

Adam L Barrett
NRWL, Canada
Adam L Barrett is a JavaScript and Front-End consultant, a contributor to open source, and avid bike-shedder. Adam believes, when writing conference bios, he should probably mention his two children, his love of movies and probably his hobbies, like hosting a board game podcast, to help the reader connect with him as a person, but ...well, that sounds sort of manipulative so Adam has chosen not to. Adam is above that.

Dmitry Zaets
Lowerton, Spain
Dmitry is a co-founder and CTO of Lowerton. Within the last 13 years, he has worked in numerous startups, helping them grow from early-stage prototypes to fully functional products. He is passionate about software architecture and developer experience. Dmitry has been a co-organizer and active member of the BarcelonaJS (https://www.meetup.com/barcelonajs/) community since 2017.

Nathan Shively-Sanders
Microsoft, USA
Nathan is an engineer on the Typescript team, working on Javascript support and open source community, including Definitely Typed. He has a Ph D in linguistics from the time he made a machine classify Swedish dialects using syntax. The common thread is that Nathan loves writing programs to understand messy linguistic systems.
For fun, Nathan enjoys video games, a wide variety of reading, and hiking with his family around the Pacific Northwest.

Olayinka Atobiloye
GitHub, Nigeria
Olayinka Atobiloye is a third-year Computer Engineering student at the University of Lagos, and she is also a GitHub Campus Expert and the Chair of Women in Engineering, Unilag. Her passion for software engineering stems from its ability to create solutions that have a direct positive impact on people's lives. In the past, she has had the opportunity to build impactful solutions through internships at companies like Goldman Sachs and GitHub.
Additionally, Olayinka is passionate about volunteering and growing communities. As a GitHub Campus Expert, she hosts events like the GitHub Octernship Lagos, where students receive tips and insights into the GitHub Octernship program to help them accelerate their careers. As the current Women in Engineering Chair on her campus, she spearheads programs that improve the software engineering skills and employability of female students. These programs include seminars and mentoring sessions where female students can discuss with women in the industry and learn how to overcome challenges they may face in their early careers.
Olayinka is committed to making a significant impact in software engineering and in her immediate community.

Vikash Agrawal
Amazon Web Services, Canada
Vikash Agrawal is a Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading initiatives in the AWS CloudWatch team. Previously, he played a key role in developing Amazon Q Developer, a Generative AI-powered assistant for developers. With over a decade of experience in software engineering and leadership, Vikash has led high-impact teams at Housing.com and Dream11, driving innovation and scalable solutions. A strong advocate for open-source, he has contributed to Mozilla (2012) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (2013) through the prestigious Google Summer of Code. Passionate about AI, cloud computing, and engineering excellence, he is dedicated to building cutting-edge technology that empowers developers worldwide.

Paulo Ragonha
Mojang Studios, Sweden
Paulo is currently a tech lead at Mojang Studios, where he is helping improve the UI/UX of the biggest game in the planet (Minecraft). Natively from Brazil, he has moved to Sweden six years ago, enough time to adapt to the cold weather and even enjoy commuting with his bicycle during snowstorms. In the past, he has also ventured in book writing, having published books on automated testing in JavaScript.

Oliver Barnwell
The Guardian, UK
I first developed an interest in programming in my early teens, making text-based adventure games in QBasic. After completing my degree in 2020, I stumbled out of the pandemic directly into the newly transformed fully remote world of work. In August ‘21 I accepted an offer to join the Guardian where I have been working on their identity platform migration. Outside of work I contribute to the Great British Public Toilet Map, an open source project dedicated to helping people find toilets across the UK. You can find me tweeting about life and work [@olliethinks](https://twitter.com/olliethinks).

Edoardo Dusi
Storyblok, Italy, Bologna
Edoardo has a strong software developer and team leader background, working on various projects and platforms. He is passionate about creating and sharing content that educates and inspires other developers, such as tech talks, videos, podcasts, conferences, and more. He enjoys connecting with the developer community and promoting the benefits of open source software.