JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

I'm Wisam Zaghal, an engineering manager at BenchSci who enjoys empowering teams to keep learning, growing and iterating.

Gabriela is a software engineer working on the TypeScript team at Microsoft. She is interested in types and programming languages, both theory and practice. When she's not staring puzzlingly at a computer, Gabriela is spending time with her two guinea pigs.

Carly is a software engineer at Galileo in New York City, working to improve healthcare. Previously she's worked at Haven and Zocdoc. Carly especially enjoys working with React and React Native, and has a passion for automated testing. When she's not coding you can find her skiing, hiking, or trying local beers.

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.

Staff Engineer at Ibotta, formerly co-founder and COO of OctoShop before its acquisition by Ibotta.

I am a dedicated Computer Science Professor and XR (Extended Reality) Researcher with a passion for leveraging technology to enhance education. As a former Google WTM (Women Techmakers) Ambassador, I have actively contributed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. With a background as a Data Engineer and Full Stack Developer, I bring a strong technical foundation to my role as a professor, allowing me to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the classroom. I am committed to fostering an engaging and inclusive learning environment where students can develop both their technical skills and their creativity. In my current research position, I focus on exploring the potential of XR technologies in higher education. By harnessing the power of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR), I aim to create immersive and interactive learning experiences that enhance student engagement and comprehension. I am constantly seeking opportunities to collaborate with industry professionals, educators, and researchers to push the boundaries of XR and its applications in higher education. I strongly believe that by embracing emerging technologies, we can revolutionize the way we teach and learn.

Seungho is a Research Fellow at LG Electronics and leads Enact (https://github.com/enactjs) as an organization owner and maintainer. Enact is a React-based app framework that supports TV UI components, remote control input, accessibility(a11y), internationalization(i18n), and webOS APIs. It is shipped on webOS devices.

Romello Goodman is a creative technologist primarily working with web technologies. By day, he works as a software engineer at The New York Times. By night, he uses a number of different tools to explore the intersection of creativity and code.

Chris Ng is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn based in New York City. Chris leads the linting strategy for LinkedIn's flagship web application and brings together different teams and personalities to achieve shared goals related to web infrastructure, product strategy, and resolving long standing issues.

Hi! I'm Travis Waith-Mair. I am a senior front-end developer, the creator of the Bedrock Layout Primitives layout library, I am a course author at http://newline.co

Lucas Estevão is an Engineering Manager at Apple through Avenue Code, with over 15 years of experience in front-end development and technical leadership. From Belo Horizonte to Silicon Valley, his journey has been marked by resilience and continuous learning. He also works as a mentor and speaker, sharing insights on leadership and career development.

I'm a Frontend Engineer mainly involved with building dev-tools and universal component libraries using React Native. My major contributions are towards building NativeBase and gluestack-ui. When I'm not coding, I enjoy playing guitar, singing, and gaming. And I'm a big time nature lover!

Rashmi is a Software Engineer at Cactus with a passion for building products in AI/ML. In her almost 4.5 years career in tech, she’s brought products to life at pre-seed startups, scaled teams and software at hypergrowth unicorns, and shipped redesigns and features used by millions at established giants. When she's not coding, capturing cosmos using her telescope, or playing board games with friends, you can find Rashmi playing with fluffy - her maltese breed pet dog!

Scott Gerlach is Co-founder and Chief Security Officer at StackHawk, a Denver-based startup focused on empowering engineers to easily identify and remediate security bugs. Scott brings over two decades of security and engineering experience to his current role, having served as CSO, CISO, and in other executive leadership functions at companies like SendGrid, Twilio, and GoDaddy. When he's not at work, you'll find Scott spending time with family, brewing beer, and playing guitar.

I am around the industry for quite a long time having experience spanning over multiple decades. Started coding with the procedural programming approach in Basic and C. Then witness the rise of Object Oriented paradigm and spent years developing in ActionScript and C# and Java and later Ruby and Javascript. Was part of the e-commerce boom and developed hundreds of web portals in PHP, ASP, .NET. The MVC era revolutionized the industry and I contributed through Yii, Zend, CI, CakePHP, Kohana, and later RoR. And now very enthusiastic about the rebirth of functional programming.

Praveen is a technical lead at Wednesday Solutions. He's an open source and a sports enthusiast. He loves taking on challenging problems.

Tech Recruiter & Sourcing Trainer. Speaker and community builder, gamer. Currently scaling engineering and art teams at Riot Games.

Ruby Jane Cabagnot is a full-stack DotNET/Reactjs developer based in Oslo, Norway, who published a book about writing Enterprise React applications.

Alexa is the tech lead for the Grafana Dashboards Squad and is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She sees tech as a way to solve problems and enjoys working with her team every day to roll out features, fix bugs, and sometimes lose at GeoGuessr.

Cody is a software engineer consultant, developer relations engineer, and university instructor with a passion for learning and sharing technology. He teaches a university web development course and loves interacting with developers of all experience levels. He started speaking internationally in 2022 at React Summit and NodeConf EU as well as hosting some of the events connected to NodeConf EU. His current passion is building full-stack and decentralized applications using all OSS technologies.

Yonatan has been involved in some awesome projects in the academy and the industry - from C/C++ through Matlab to PHP and javascript. Former CTO at Webiks and Software Architect at WalkMe. Currently he is a software architect at Vonage and an egghead instructor.

I'm a software engineer who specializes in building web apps using Python, GraphQL and React. Currently, I work as a lead developer at Saleor. I speak at tech conferences about Python and GraphQL. I'm a runner, musician and traveler in my free time. I'm based in Wrocław, Poland.

Aaron “Mitch” Mitchell has 10+ years of experience in product management. He’s consulted for Twitter, Sony, Western Digital, Lyft, and others on new product development and strategy. He is currently the President of HeroDevs and spends his time longboarding and playing with his 3 sons.

G. Ann Campbell coded JavaScript for early browsers (think Netscape 3, IE 4), plus Perl, C, and Java. She became a vocal member of the SonarQube community in 2010 and joined SonarSource in 2013, after co-authoring SonarQube in Action. Her software career has spanned support, documentation, coding, and product management. Through the SonarQube community, she has helped hundreds of people understand how to make the most of SonarQube to write Clean and Secure Code.