JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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

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.

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 😄.

Lead maintainer for 📦🔒 Verdaccio • 👨🏽‍💻 React and Node.js developer • Open Source believer

Suffers from Application Development Disorder. With over 25+ years of experience designing and developing software from fortune 50 companies to being employee #1 at start ups. An affinity for open source software, community and believes in using the right tools for the right job, even if the right tool needs to be invented.

Currently on the UI Platform team at Uber. Focused on design systems (baseweb.design), open source (multiple popular react libraries as react-movable or react-portal), CSS in JS and great user/developer experiences. Previously building product at Cloudflare.

Hi! I’m a humanist & technologist who loves working with the web. I build products, often involving a heavy dose of backend Node.js services. Having confidence that these services work as designed allows me to iterate faster and provide value. So, good thing then I’m also the core maintainer of AVA, the Node.js test runner that lets you develop with confidence.

Neciu Dan is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years of experience in the tech industry. He currently leads Perk Events as Engineering Manager and Staff Engineer, managing the team while staying hands-on in the codebase. Before Perk, he was Tech Lead at Rover, where he launched a multi-tier system across the US and Canada. Before that, he served as technical co-founder and Staff Engineer at CareerOS, where he spearheaded development, maintenance, and scaling of the main application, and held senior engineering roles at the New York e-commerce brand AdoreMe and the food delivery company Glovo. Today, Dan hosts the popular Señors at Scale podcast, organizes ReactJS Barcelona, and has created the international best-selling workshop Lizard to Wizard. He is also an esteemed international speaker and mentor, passionately encouraging best development practices with a keen focus on testing, accessibility, and security. His speaking engagements include React Alicante, React Rally, React Paris, React Summit, JNation, JSHeroes, VueJS Amsterdam, Utah JS, Techorama Belgium, JSWorld Amsterdam, CityJS Athens, CityJS Singapore, DevBCN, Talent Arena Barcelona, and Frontmania Netherlands.

Software Engineer in the React Native Foundations team.

Executive Talent Agent | Part-time PhD Researcher

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.

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 Alice, also known as "biskuwi," a software engineer in past and now an electronic music producer and DJ hailing from Stockholm, Sweden. With a rich musical history spanning over 25 years, Alice's journey into the world of music began at the tender age of 7. Over the years, she has graced the stages of prestigious festivals and clubs, including Germany's second-largest electronic music festival, SonneMond Sterne, as well as venues like Harry Klein, Ritter Butzke, and Södra Teatern, among others. Her music has garnered support from some of the industry's most prominent DJs, including Solomun, Mathame, Kevin de Vries, Yotto, Lane8, Fideles, Binaryh, Matchy, 8Kays, Richie Hawtin, Moonwalk, Undercatt and many others. Additionally, her latest track, 'Termination,' reached No. 1 on the Beatport Melodic Techno Top 100 songs chart, showcasing her enduring influence and popularity. Alice's music has also made its mark on various Spotify Editorial playlists, including Techno Bunker, Electronic Circus, Beats to Think To, Low Key Tech, Open Air, Beats of Tomorrow and Tunnel Vision solidifying her status as a trailblazing artist in the electronic music scene. Notably, she has graced the cover of the renowned "Electronic Rising" playlist four times further cementing her reputation as an artist on the rise.

Pooja Mistry(@poojamakes) is a Developer Advocate at Postman, an API platform with over 25 million users. She is passionate about the intersection of technology and community, and she works to expand the reach of Postman’s API Platform to developers worldwide. Before working at Postman, Pooja led the Partnership Advocacy Program at IBM and worked to build communities around sharing technology insights in the API, APIOps, Integration, and Data and AI space. Pooja loves to learn, teach, and share her knowledge with developers. Along with being a proud plant mom, she strongly believes in helping new technologists get up and running with technology and feel confident in their abilities to make!

Lee (larowlan) has been a major contributor to Drupal (🙀) for over 16 years. Lee is a Drupal core Framework manager, member of the Drupal security team and is passionate about code quality. More recently he has turned his focus to JavaScript, most notably React, Redux and Next.js, with Drupal's move to being a headless-first CMS. Lee was one of the primary architects of Drupal's testing architecture and champions automated testing and build processes. Lee has worked on several of Australia's largest websites during his 13 years as a Senior Developer with one of Australia's most trusted agencies: PreviousNext.

Josefine is currently a Developer Relations Engineer at Storyblok, a Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies and a Girl Code Ambassador. She is passionate about advocating for Accessibility and making the web a little more inclusive, one page at a time.

Nils Hartmann is a freelance software architect, developer and trainer from Hamburg. He mainly works with Java, JavaScript/TypeScript and React.

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.

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.

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

Nick is an empathetic community member, full-stack developer, avid climber and cyclist. He is currently a Senior Developer Advocate at Viam where he helps people build and manage their hardware projects from anywhere in the world. He is an invited expert with TC53 to help shape the future of JS on things. In his free time, he tinkers with home automation and robots built with JavaScript. His mustache is a figment of your imagination.

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.

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.