JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Software engineer, frontend at Retool. Works with React, Redux, TypeScript. Loves mac and cheese, tennis, and exploring.

Murat was born in Turkey and has lived around Chicago for over 20 years. He graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology with a computer engineering bachelor's and contributed at Siemens for over a decade. He is married with two daughters; 9 and 11 years old. He lives to do corrective deeds; learn, teach, fix what is broken, improve and optimize all things around at work, open source, and home life. He is a tech enthusiast in love with testing, development, devops, web and cloud. Currently he is a Staff Engineer & Test Architect at Extend.

Web developer, speaker, and educator. Constantly discovering new ways to improve the architecture of web applications, and make them more secure, fast, and interactive.

Engineer at Uber, building the platform that powers its systems. Enjoys creating spaces where developers connect and share ideas.

Known as TiKevin83 online, Travis McGeehan is a Senior Software Engineer at GFS in West Michigan specializing in frontend optimization during the day and with a knack for video archival techniques from years spent organizing the TASVideos and TASBot communities and making retro game TASes.

Core Team member and Tech Lead at RedwoodJS. Lives out in the middle-of-nowhere in Sweden. Likes everything on two wheels and loves to travel.

Brendan is a senior software engineer working on graphics and the web platform for Unity Technologies, where he combines his love of creativity and technology. Before Unity, Brendan has 20+ years working in animation studios such as Disney, and technology companies such as Google.

A gal who wants to create awesome stuff. A problem solver and allround web developer. I‘m a senior programmer with good knowledge of front-end techniques. I love algorithms, data structure and I also stand for quality. I believe in nudging things forward — thoughtfully and intentionally. Asking ‘what if’ as often as possible, constantly challenging standards, and experimenting endlessly.

Coder, open-sourcerer, developer experience enthusiast, software architect, and entrepreneur. At work, I oversee and consult in enterprise legacy systems modernization for fortune 500s to small businesses. Outside work I love helping NGOs as a full-stack developer and mentor.

Anemari Fiser is a seasoned Engineering Leader and Certified Career Coach, recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice and the Spain Country Director at Global Women Tech Leaders. With a decade of diverse roles in the tech industry, from Software Engineer to Product Director, she is now a solopreneur utilising her technical and leadership expertise to help others level up their tech careers. In the past 3 years, Anemari has helped over 500 people launch and advance to leadership positions and trained 200 Tech Leads in building high-performing teams. Her influence extends to a 25,000+ strong tech professional community on LinkedIn and 5,000+ readers of her weekly newsletter, “Level up as a Tech Lead”.

Hi, I'm Evan Seaward, a Software Engineer originally from Australia and now based in the beautiful city of Wrocław, Poland. I'm passionate about building AI-first applications that push technological boundaries and exploring the unknown.

Alexander Gekov is a skilled Vue developer based in the Netherlands. He is enthusiastic about the Vue.js framework and actively works to contribute to the frontend development community through writing blog posts and recording educational videos.

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.

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.

CPO at Wing Cloud Inc.

Indie developer in his free time, writes code + does generally awesome web and gaming stuff @ Poki.

Senior Frontend Developer at Brella

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.