JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Hi, I’m Adrien 👋. I’m a Senior Software Engineer at Nagomi. I previously lead the Micro Frontend effort at Cazoo (and wrote about it!). I’m passionate about building things, such as theatreninja.com a theatre ticket website, 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 or reading the latest book from Brandon Sanderson.

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

Peter Eijgermans is a long-time software developer and an adventurous and passionate CodeSmith Frontend at Sopra Steria (Ordina). He likes to travel around the world with his bike. Always seeking for the unexpected and unknown. For his job he tries out the latest techniques and frameworks. He loves to share his experience by speaking at conferences all over the World and writing for the Dutch Java magazine and DZone. He believes that you as the front-end developer are the spider in the web to bring the user, the team and the product together.

Johnny is a full-stack developer who loves pushing what's possible with software products. He specializes in building browser extensions that don't break user experiences.

Stepan Suvorov has over 15 years of experience in web development, information security, and scaling tech startups. As the CTO at Studytube, he has led the AI-driven transformation strategy, introducing innovative features. Stepan is an expert in applying AI, particularly tools like ChatGPT, to streamline software development, from code generation and debugging to documentation and code reviews. A Google Developer Expert and frequent conference speaker, he is passionate about teaching developers how to use AI to boost efficiency and deliver high-quality results in real-world applications.

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.

My name is Dmitry Kudryavtsev. I'm 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.

A professional trainer from France, teaching fullstack web development and LLM development. Contributor to the State of JS survey.

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

Wearer of many hats, former designer, full-stack developer, teacher, iOS Developer. Now: Staff Sotware Engineer. Talk to me about coffee, dogs, pro-wrestling and quirky language topics.

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.

Chandra has spent the last 9 years building accessibility program strategies at various organizations and launched those companies’ accessibility efforts, including the New York Times, Etsy, and Aetna Digital.

Ben is the Founder of PolyScale.ai where he works to make scaling databases globally, simple for developers and architects. Ben has been working with distributed systems and big data for over a decade, leading Solution Architecture teams at companies such as DataSift, Elastic and Rockset.

Creator of Best of JS and JS Rising Stars projects.

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.

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

Full-stack developer with a security first mindset. Working on Next.js at @vercel. Previously @voxmedia, @coralproject.

Doing my best to boost JS game development by organizing React Jam and a $100k grant initiative for open-source games. Previously researched ML algorithms at MIT, incl. making an open-source AI algorithm now used to serve 300M+ daily users. Awarded Forbes 30 under 30 and Marvin Minsky fellowship.

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!

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.

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.

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