JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

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.

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."

Billy is an engineer at NewDay building React apps and component libraries. He's an advocate for accessibility, testing, and design systems. He also names all his libraries after vegetables, much to the confusion of his co-workers.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

Working on advancing Data Visualization and Data Science with RAPIDS.ai / GPU acceleration at NVIDIA. In a previous life was an Industrial Design Lead.

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.

Eclectic Code Designer. UI Developer for web & mobile. The organizer of revo.js conference.

Kiril Peyanski is a Principal Software Engineer focused on the intersection of design systems, user experience, and AI-assisted interface design. He explores how both humans and LLMs can shape the next generation of front-end architecture.

Mark is a Full Stack Engineer on the Client Data API team at Yelp, leading efforts for web.

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.

Jorrin is a Web Dev/Instructor turned blockchain builder/ educator. He has been a part of the blockchain industry for 8 years, and he hasn’t looked back since going full-time. He is passionate about building the next layer of the internet and empowering others to do the same.

Staff software engineer at CodeSandbox pushing the boundaries of what is possible with web technology, Rust enthousiast, performance obsessed, building developer friendly tools

Frontend Engineer @shoptradeco | @gsoc 2019 & 2020

Robert is a full stack engineer with 15 years of developer experience, helping lead a node based machine learning team at iFit. From an early age, he strove to understand how things worked by taking them apart, and putting them back together. He became interested in machine learning in 2015, saw a larger need in the node community, and eventually became a maintainer of Brain.js and GPU.js. His desire to convey the simplicity of neural networks was manifest in his machine learning course on scrimba: Neural networks in JavaScript.

Jorans passion involves getting people to love technology and getting technology to play nice. He works as an interaction developer with ♡ for web, tech, science & tinkering with stuff. Focussed on reducing eWaste at Tapp. Published author, toots and speaks every now and then.