JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Raanan Weber is a JavaScript and TypeScript ("Web"?) developer, currently working at Microsoft as Babylon.js Web Tech Lead and is one of its core contributors, with emphasis on WebXR and the engine's build system. With a passion for open source, he constantly contributes to Babylon.js and various other Open-source projects. He lives in Berlin, Germany, where they find joy in playing the guitar and exploring Berlin's forests with his family and dog.

I'm a Senior Software Engineer working in the JavaScript ecosystem. I'm also the founder of The T-Shaped Dev newsletter and the author of The Conscious React book. I'm interested in combining good practices and architectures within React and Node applications, closing the gap between JS Full Stack Apps and Clean Architecture.

Tom is an experienced developer with over a decade at Wix.com. There he helped establish the Wix R&D Academy and organized multiple community events, including the "You Gotta Love Frontend" conferences. Later, he led the development of Stylable, an open-source CSS toolchain for components, and now heads developer relations for Codux, striving to make web development more efficient, user-friendly, and accessible to all.

Morten is a web developer of 20+ years, and a React expert in the last 6. Morten co-authored React Quickly, 2nd Ed, published early 2023 at Manning Publications. Working as a freelance consultant, Morten has been helping agencies and companies of all sizes improve their React codebases. Also, he actually enjoys refactoring! Life-wise, Morten is an ultrarunner, board game enthusiast, and corgi fanatic.

Hi, I’m Adrien 👋. I’m a Senior Software Engineer at Tractable, a startup which is revolutionising insurance using Machine Learning. I previously lead the Micro Frontend effort at Cazoo (and wrote about it!). I’m passionate about building things, such as clashofstats.com, a statistics tracker for Clash of Clans ⚔️, Vue GWT a library that lets you build Vue.js components in Java ☕️, and more recently Tiny Frontend an open source Micro Frontend architecture library 🐰. I live in London with my partner. In my free time, I love going to see a show in the West End, playing some Beat Saber on my Valve Index or reading the latest book from Brandon Sanderson.

Daphne is a comedian, software engineer, and conference speaker. She is on a mission to bring comedy into tech and has brought to conferences: a "He-Man" sing-along, AI-themed cha-cha slide, and a Pokemon speaker introduction. She's an engineer at Grow Therapy and previously worked at Lyft, Shopify, and Yelp. Based in Seattle, she enjoys improv, sketch writing, and hostel-hopping around the world. What makes her happiest in life is meeting people. So, if you want to yap with her all day, reach out to her through social media!

Freelance full stack developer from Finland with 10+ years in the business. I focus on building services and apps from scratch to production.

From a young age, Avital was fascinated by the world of computers and solving problems with them. She followed a path of backend development, storytelling, and a little graphic design, before discovering the world of DevRel. Today Avital is the Regional Developer Advocate at Vonage TLV, where she gets to combine her passions for code, creative thinking, and facilitating good stories.

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.

"Johnny is a seasoned full stack developer with 16+ years of web development experience, building his startup, Bonboarding. He thrives on tackling complex tasks that require out-of-the-box thinking, and enjoys finding creative solutions. His passion for early-stage projects is fueled by his belief in the transformative power of technology and his drive to constantly push the envelope."

My name is Dmitry Kudryavtsev. I'm Russian born, and currently living in Israel, Software Engineer. I'm passionate about programming, and started to write software from the age of 14 using Pascal, C and PHP. I've touched nearly every programming language out there, and right now I'm passionate about JavaScript (well, I prefer TypeScript) and Rust. I have more than 11 years of professional experience, and worked in multiple companies (including Autodesk), occupying different titles such as: Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Consultant. In my free time I like to write code and experiment with new technologies, get outdoors, read, focus on self improvement and productivity as well as boxing and staying healthy.

My primary interest is self development and craftsmanship. I enjoy exploring technologies, coding open source and enterprise projects, teaching, speaking and writing about programming - JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, JSON Schema, DevOps, Web Components, Algorithms 👋 ⚽️ 🧑‍💻 🎧

Amanda Lewis is a Developer Relations Engineer on the DORA Advocacy team at Google Cloud. She leads the development of the DORA Community of Practice and is a co-author of the 2023 Accelerate State of DevOps Report. Her career has been spent building connections across teams to develop e-commerce platforms, content management systems, observability tools, and support developers. She helps teams develop a culture of continuous improvement to deliver improved well-being and better outcomes for the business.

Max is a software engineer and Nx and works on the core team. He spends a lot of his time building Nx & Nx Console - a VSCode and JetBrains extension for Nx workspaces. When not digging through code, he spends his time travelling, reading sci-fi and listening to music.

Principal software engineer at Deno, previously co-founded GitBook.

Research Engineer at XBOW, and creator of Miniflare. Loves making developers' lives easier.

French engineer, founder of LBKE. I contribute to the State of JS survey, I write Next.js courses and I give trainings at Human Coders.

I gave up the glamorous life of a Chip Shop Chef to pursue a career in web development. Over half a decade later and I’ve worked at a handful of different startups around London, working with lots of amazing people and amazing tech. I’ve spent a lot of time in the Frontend space, building component libraries, running web accessibility workshops, and just having fun building user interfaces. I also created Component Odyssey, a course dedicated to teaching developers how to build a web component library that works in any web framework. I’ve also contributed to open source projects, like the Open UI, where I led the site rewrite.

Marko is a software engineer and data visualization enthusiast specializing in geospatial technologies. Currently a Founding Engineer at Fused, he builds interactive geospatial applications using React and deck.gl. Previously, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Foursquare and a Tech Speaker at Mozilla. As the Director of Armada JS, Serbia’s largest full-stack JavaScript conference, Marko is dedicated to community building and knowledge sharing. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science and is pursuing a PhD in data visualization.

Jon Jensen is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix working to improve the developer experience for other UI engineers. Previously he worked at Amazon and Instructure, working on all things software-y. In his spare time he's usually in the mountains or playing with his kids.

Anisha is a React Native Developer Advocate at Amazon where she is focused on enabling and supporting app developers around the world.

Kiki is a Program Manager on the Windows UI Platform team and comes from a game design and development background.

Amber Vanderburg is a multi-award winning businessperson, keynote speaker, author, and founder of the international learning development company, The Pathwayz Group, which has led 800,000+ learners in more than 75 countries in action-focused learning journeys. Amber's history in talent development includes authoring top-reviewed online learning courses for platforms such as LinkedIn Learning, Lecturio, and Pluralsight, acting as Director of a national education leadership company, and coaching with professional sports team academies in Asia. In 2022, she published her first business adventure book "Uniquely Better" about building higher team performance.

Chris Smith is a developer evangelist at Retool, where he helps developers to rapidly code internal tools. He is a hacker at heart ever since learning QBASIC in middle school and is passionate about the power that learning to code brings to an individual. He’s worked for 6+ years in the world of low-code tools to empower developers to do more in less time. He’s passionate about visual abstractions and ways of quickly conveying and understanding complexity. Prior to Retool, Chris worked at Tray.io, JunoVR, Segment, and National Instruments.