JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers
Explore personalities and their talks, workshops, videos, and articles. While we focus primarily on JavaScript and frameworks like React, Vue, Svelte, and Node, you may find experts on other fields on our Portal. To name a few – Testing, DevOps, Machine Learning, and many more!
Clément Pasteau
GDevelop, France
Clément is a software engineer passionate about creating applications of quality at speed, making sure he can be involved in every aspect of the development. Currently CTO of GDevelop, he’s a big believer in Lean, ensuring the best quality in the apps built by improving Developer Velocity.
Tally Barak
Yoobic, Israel
Tally has over 30 years of software development, product management, and consulting experience. Today Tally works for Yoobic as an architect responsible for all the Frontend tooling, testing, and DevOps processes.
Tally loves Javascript and its ecosystem and is happily sharing this knowledge with other developers. Playwright Ambassador.
Yshay Yaacobi
Livecyle, Israel
Yshay Yaacobi is the co-founder and CTO at Livecyle, an early-stage startup that specializes in collaboration on top of live environments. Yshay has more than a decade of experience with web and cloud technologies, has given local talks about various technologies and is co-organizer of the Rx-Israel meetup group.
He is passionate about programming languages, functional programming, cloud and system architecture. Yshay is extremely interested in open source, and is the lead developer of Tweek (git.io/tweek) - a cloud native open-source feature manager. Over the last few years Yshay has been using Docker and Kubernetes heavily and has also given sessions in several cloud-native/devops meetups and events.
Andrew Coleburn
Bitovi, USA
Andrew is a theatre kid turned software developer. He got his BA in psychology and theatre from Hobart College and his MA from the University of Central Florida. After a range of disparate adventures including acting, consulting, teaching, and recruiting, he attended the full-stack software engineering program at Thinkful, after which he joined Bitovi as a React Developer. Andrew consults for Fortune 500 companies like Yum and Aflac, helping them build high performing and scalable React applications
Originally from Massachusetts, he currently lives with his partner in Buffalo, NY. In his free time you'll probably find him cooking, reading, board-gaming, skiing, or cheering on the Boston Bruins. Mostly just that last one.
Sean Landsman
AG Grid, UK
Get started with AG Grid React Data Grid with a hands-on tutorial from the core team that will take you through the steps of creating your first grid, including how to configure the grid with simple properties and custom components. AG Grid community edition is completely free to use in commercial applications, so you'll learn a powerful tool that you can immediately add to your projects. You'll also discover how to load data into the grid and different ways to add custom rendering to the grid. By the end of the workshop, you will have created an AG Grid React Data Grid and customized with functional React components.
Anna Backs
Codecentric, Germany
Anna Backs is an APM consultant and software developer working for codecentric. When she is not outside with her dog or absorbed in the world of Shadowrun, she is usually found building some thing or another in JavaScript. She loves coffee, good stories and learning new things.
Giamir Buoncristiani
Stack Overflow, Italy
Giamir is a Staff Engineer specializing in UI Architecture and Design Systems at Stack Overflow, where he leads various frontend-related initiatives. Most recently, he and his team have made Stack Overflow's products more accessible and have helped the engineering organization adopt modern approaches to building user interfaces. Giamir is passionate about enabling teams to deliver the best possible experiences for their users.
Anemari Fiser
Engineering Leader & Certified Career Coach in Tech
Mentorship available
Anemari is an Engineering Leader and Certified Career Coach in tech. With over a decade of experience - from Software Engineer to Product Director - she now helps others advance their tech careers.
In the past three years, she has coached over 500 professionals, trained more than 300 Tech Leads to build high-performing teams, and became a LinkedIn Top Voice, growing a community of 28,000+ tech professionals.
Anemari is also the author of the upcoming O'Reilly book Leveling Up as a Tech Lead and creator of the O'Reilly course Soft Skills for Tech Leads.
Murat K Ozcan
Extend, USA
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.
Travis McGeehan
GFS, USA
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.
