JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Ashwin has 3+ years of experience with machine learning and building applications around it. He has in past worked at man startups eventually moving to big tech and mid sized companies and have helped build teams from ground up. He regularly guides and advises pre seed startups to help them develop their product and guide them as a mentor. He believes he still has much to learn everytime he gets to know something new and values sharing his knoweldge at events and meetups.

Kevin is currently leading the GraphQL engineering team at Solo.io. Formerly a big data infra admin at HubSpot, Kevin is passionate about the infrastructure space and giving to the community, with contributions to many open source projects such as Envoy, Flagger, and Gloo. Kevin enjoys working with customers and community users on real problems facing them today, and is excited to help bring organizations to Envoy, Istio, and a more modern, cloud-native, tech stack.

Will Johnston is a Developer Advocate on the DevRel team at WP Engine. He started coding when he was 10 years old, and began coding professionally at 15. He got his start working on an open source competency tracking tool for schools with Python and Zope. Will founded Covalence alongside Matt Landers, and served as CTO. At WP Engine, Will is excited to help make the headless CMS world a better place by helping others embrace headless and make the most out of new tools and technologies.

Cristobal Chao is a software engineer, UX specialist and founder of Torii Studio, a studio that helps small to large companies implement front-end processes and systems that are easier to scale efficiently while building beautiful UI/UX products. Prior to forming Torii Studio, Mr. Chao worked as a Software Engineer in companies like Google and Oracle. Also, he worked as the first software engineer for Hattery Labs, a front-end consultancy acquired by Google in 2013. At Google, he worked as part of the Material Design team building the first two versions of Material Design, as well as evangelizing the systems across Google Search, Maps and Google for Work.

Mindset and Wellbeing Coach to the Software Engineering Industry Richard is self-taught and has over 24 years experience working as a Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Engineering Manager and Software Architect. Feeling the need to contribute more than just lines of code to the software engineering industry, Richard trained to become a mindset coach and personal trainer to help software engineers protect their wellbeing and mental health, which is vital for success in our industry.

Senior Frontend Developer at Brella

David is a Developer Advocate at Shopify, and previously a tech lead for an ecommerce agency. He is new to Shopify, but brings ten years of ecommerce and software experience with him to help foster relationships with Shopify and the developers using the platform.

Managing Consultant @ Columbia Road, Advisor, Coach, Teacher.

Ryan Severns is Co-Founder & COO at StackHawk where he spends his time getting application security into the hands of developers. Prior to StackHawk, he led analytics, marketing, and growth teams at VictorOps and JumpCloud. He loves end-user focused software, data, and chips & salsa.

Software Engineer at JetBrains and programming languages polyglot. I do like brining things from other languages and environments and mixing them together to create new ideas. Before I became an engineer, I played DotA and DotA 2 professionally ;)

Chad Carlson manages the Developer Relations team at Platform.sh. Chad spent a large portion of his professional career in academia, where he worked primarily in vision science laboratories using Python to study the human visual system: how we detect motion, how we understand natural image statistics, and its evolutionary origins. Today he can typically be found writing, cooking, or working on projects in Python, Node.js, Go, and whatever new language Platform.sh starts support for and wants another pair of eyes on.

Omer Kenet is a seasoned product leader and expert in the realm of front-end tooling and visual coding. For the past four years, he has been serving as the Head of Product for Codux, a visual editor for React projects. With over a decade of experience in the industry, he also co-founded RapidUI, an advanced visual editing environment that automates front-end coding from designs. Passionate about designer-developer collaboration, visual-approach tooling, and all things product, Omer is dedicated to driving technological advancements in the creative and development communities.

I'm currently working at Wix.com as a software engineer in the very exciting Wix’s Data Science group. I'm an open-source enthusiast, have a fetish for web performance, love technology at its best when it's visual, and… mixing techno sounds at night!

Christian used to be a high-school teacher and lecturer at university before he started pursuing a career as a Software Engineer. Together with his team he is racing against the JavaScript ecosystem trying to implement support for new technologies within WebStorm.

Miraan is the founder at Hypertune. He was previously at Meta where he led teams across frontend, mobile, backend and machine learning.

Jake is Figma's first developer advocate, and spent the prior 12 years working as a software engineer on both sides of web applications. Guided by a design education, he's held roles across creative agencies and e-commerce platforms, married design fidelity with developer experience building component libraries for design systems, and built tools for front-end developers as an early hire at CodePen. Jake loves to walk the line between design and code, bridge gaps in communication across product development, and bring as much fun and creativity to the work that he can manage to cram in along the way.

Philipp loves to code and teach people. His first project was a webpage to manage which of his friends had borrowed which VHS. It was this project that also convinced him that the internet is where the future is. Fast forward some 20 years and he is still coding. He currently works as CTO at auteon.

Software engineer of over 10 years, currently occupied with all the things about front-end infrastructure and developer happiness. Talk to me about the Web Platform, browser guts and specialty coffee!

Last 7 years Yannick was working as a software/devops engineer and did a lot of open source work. Since February 2023 he is a teacher (mainly for JavaScript) at BBZ CFP Biel/Bienne. Therefore, he has a bit less time to work on maintaining OpenSource work. On the side he manage commercial (non-opensource) software products in the Finance and Healthcare industry.

Francois is the Revenue Ops person at Prismic. For his team he has experience with the recruitment process of two roles: Solutions Engineer and Growth Engineer. These are pretty new kinds of roles, but which are very popular recently and that you might want to hear about if you are an engineer who enjoys understanding the business side of things.

Laura is a software engineer obsessed with front-end development. She is also teaching teenagers about Web Technologies. 2 years ago Laura was on the Dark side - developing with COBOL programming language on Mainframe supercomputers! Due to slow evolvement and limitations of used technologies, she decided to shift them pretty drastically. Laura believes we shouldn't stick to any specific technology in this rapidly evolving IT World, but try and use various different ones instead. Every new experience increases our creativity, knowledge, curiosity and expands mindset. Her latest discovery was music programming, and she wants to share it with us!

Jayeeta is a Senior Data Scientist with 4+ years of industry experience. Currently, she is working on machine learning and NLP projects and explores a lot of state-of-the-art models to build cool products at Indellient US Inc., a leading software development and IT professional services company working with Fortune 100 companies. Prior to that, she worked at Deloitte. Jayeeta is also engaged with some amazing organizations like Women Who Code and Women Tech Network to promote and inspire more women to take up STEM and often leads technical webinars and talks. She received her Master of Science in Quantitative Methods and Modeling from City University of New York, NY and Bachelor of Science in Economics and Statistics from West Bengal State University, India.

A frontend developer in Toronto.

Currently working with the CKEditor 5 core team on the editor framework, its ecosystem, and developer experience. Ex-developer turned into a product person but still codes for fun and brain practice. Strong opinions weakly held, and often overruled by his two kids.