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!
Alex Korzhikov
Instructor, Mentor, Netherlands
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
Google Cloud, USA
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.
Johannes Goslar
Synthesia, Germany
Johnny loves (board|electronic) games, programming with a lot of parentheses and cycling. After receiving his MSc from Oxford, a short stint in San Francisco, an even shorter in London, he ended up home near Frankfurt. He famously got fired from Twitter in 2022, worked as Staff Engineer for Sizzle.gg afterwards and is now building the editor at Synthesia.
Andrico Karoulla
Web Developer, London
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.
Brecht De Rooms
Fauna, Belgium
Brecht De Rooms is a senior developer advocate at Fauna. He is a programmer who has worked extensively in IT as a full-stack developer and researcher in both the startup and IT consultancy worlds. It is his mission to shed light on emerging and powerful technologies that make it easier for developers to build apps and services that will captivate users.
Maulik Suchak
Apple, USA
Maulik Suchak is working as the Lead Frontend Engineer at Apple, with over 13 years of expertise in web development. His primary focus is on crafting exceptional user interfaces for Apple Maps, a globally renowned and innovative product. Proficient in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and other cutting-edge technologies, he strives to deliver engaging and responsive experiences for users.
Prior to his role at Apple, he served as an Engineering Manager at Yelp, where he successfully led two teams of software engineers.
His entrepreneurial spirit and creative vision are reflected in his co-founding and founding of several projects, such as CVSIntellect and DearWeb.
Amber Vanderburg
The Pathwayz Group, USA
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.
Alberto Schiabel
Prisma, Italy
Alberto is a senior software engineer and former startup co-founder.
He has over 8 years of experience and has shipped the first WebAssembly modules in the open-source Prisma and Lyra projects. He’s currently a consultant working primarily in TypeScript and Rust at Prisma Data. In his free time, he helps junior developers prepare for job interviews."
Joshua Nelson
Airbnb, USA
Joshua is a developer at Airbnb, working on improving the front end performance of the most visited pages on the site! Joshua cares deeply about ensuring fast experiences for everyone, and has worked on performance optimization and instrumentation to achieve this.
With experience building both UI platforms, design systems, and product UI, Joshua has learnt what really works when it comes to performance (and what doesn't!) and is looking forward to sharing these lessons with you.
Mikhail Levchenko
Developer Productivity Engineer, Serbia
Accomplished software engineer with over 7 years of experience, transitioning from a seasoned Android developer and Techlead to a Developer Productivity Engineer. Passionate about streamlining development processes and enhancing team performance, Mikhail has led various initiatives to elevate developer satisfaction and productivity.
Khrystyna Landvytovych
SoftServe, Ukraine
I'm a Frontend engineer in SoftServe and born cook in my former life. I love to learn something new and immediately put it into practice and share my experience with others.
I'm a mentor at Kottans, give public speeches, participate as program committee in fwdays, translate programming books and maintain an insta magazine @twoLip about my travels and hobbies.
Kiril Peyanski
Progress, Bulgaria
Kiril is a Principal Software Engineer @ Progress, specialised into building UI Component Libraries and an affinity for Design Systems. Focusing exclusively into this for the last ~7 years, he's been exploring the OSS space lately and build his own open-source Design System Framework.
Buddha Bhattacharya
Tyk, Singapore
Founder of WAYV Digital, providing business strategy and technology solutions for impact-driven companies to help them scale up, become sustainable and spread their impact around the world. Currently working with companies across 5 continents in the areas of education, disability care, healthcare and sustainable e-commerce.
A dynamic leader with experience across both technical and managerial roles. Extensive experience in client and stakeholder engagement, combined with an expertise in solution consultancy across multiple technology platforms ensures successful product delivery time after time.
Key competencies:
• Technical consultancy and delivery- Kentico, Sitefinity, Sitecore, Drupal, WordPress, AWS, Azure
• Solution Architecture (cloud, web, apps)
• Product management
• Agile delivery as Professional Scrum Master
• Team management and leadership
• Technical Project management and direction
• Full stack web development (JS - React, Angular; Python; PHP)
Dedicated to building communities to tackle the UN Sustainable Development Goals and passionate about helping those who wish to change the world!
Lucas Estevão
Avenue Code, USA
Lucas is a proud dad and kickboxing brown belt. He has over 15 years of experience in large-scale software development, from system design and architecture to engineering management of front-end teams. In addition, he invests time in influencing technical recruitment processes, mentoring engineers, and, most recently, hosting a career podcast in Brazilian Portuguese. Currently working at Apple as a contractor from Avenue Code.