JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Misha Kaletsky is an active open-source contributor, known for projects like expect-type, trpc-cli and eslint-plugin-codegen. Misha has specialized in C#, F# and TypeScript at Microsoft, since building out multiple healthcare startups from scratch, almost exclusively in TypeScript. He has a particular interest in developer productivity and type safety for large-scale applications. Misha lives across the river in Brooklyn with his wife and one-year old son (with a second due a few weeks before JSNation!).

Creator of Best of JS and JS Rising Stars projects.

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

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!

Akbar Mirza is a Developer Advocate at Figma, where he helps designers and developers speak the same language and build together more seamlessly. With a background that zigzags through UX, data science, and software engineering, he’s happiest at the crossroads of design and development. Before joining Figma, Akbar built civic tech apps like MigraCam to help people in emergencies, worked on improving design tools at Google, and taught students how to code their first iOS apps. He’s driven by curiosity, community, and the belief that good tools can make creative work feel a little more human.

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.

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.

A techie by profession and a traveller by heart working in Rippling as a Senior Software Engineer

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.

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.

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.

Riccardo Erra is a developer advocate at Figma. He joined Figma as their first developer advocate in EMEA. Before joining Figma he worked as a software engineer for 15 years with the last few years spent as a design system engineer. At Figma he's empowering engineers to make the most out of the various Figma's tools tailored to developers.

I’m a Lead JavaScript Engineer, focused on building scalable web products. Currently spearheading Frontend and Design initiatives at Simbian AI.

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.

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

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.