JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Research Engineer at XBOW, and creator of Miniflare. Loves making developers' lives easier.

Full-stack developer with a security first mindset @clerk. Previously Next.js at @vercel, @voxmedia, @coralproject.

Chandra has spent the last 9 years building accessibility program strategies at various organizations and launched those companies’ accessibility efforts, including the New York Times, Etsy, and Aetna Digital.

Yusuf Tayman is a Lead QA Engineer at Insider One with eight years of experience in test automation and QA architecture. He specializes in building AI-driven systems that augment and automate manual testing processes, serving as the automation mentor across engineering teams. Yusuf is passionate about leveraging AI agents to eliminate repetitive testing bottlenecks, reduce human error, and give teams real-time visibility into application quality.

Ben is the Founder of PolyScale.ai where he works to make scaling databases globally, simple for developers and architects. Ben has been working with distributed systems and big data for over a decade, leading Solution Architecture teams at companies such as DataSift, Elastic and Rockset.

Doing my best to boost JS game development by organizing React Jam and a $100k grant initiative for open-source games. Previously researched ML algorithms at MIT, incl. making an open-source AI algorithm now used to serve 300M+ daily users. Awarded Forbes 30 under 30 and Marvin Minsky fellowship.

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.

Accomplished software engineer with over 9 years of experience, transitioning from a seasoned Android developer and Techlead to a Developer Productivity Engineer. Passionate aboutAI, streamlining development processes and enhancing team performance, he had led AI innovatons across dozens of teams in my org.

Daphne is a comedian, software engineer, and conference speaker. She is on a mission to bring comedy into tech and has brought to conferences: a "He-Man" sing-along, AI-themed cha-cha slide, and a Pokemon speaker introduction. She's an engineer at Grow Therapy and previously worked at Lyft, Shopify, and Yelp. Based in Seattle, she enjoys improv, sketch writing, and hostel-hopping around the world. What makes her happiest in life is meeting people. So, if you want to yap with her all day, reach out to her through social media!

Marko is a software engineer and data visualization enthusiast specializing in geospatial technologies. Currently a Founding Engineer at Fused, he builds interactive geospatial applications using React and deck.gl. Previously, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Foursquare and a Tech Speaker at Mozilla. As the Director of Armada JS, Serbia’s largest full-stack JavaScript conference, Marko is dedicated to community building and knowledge sharing. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science and is pursuing a PhD in data visualization.

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

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.

Amanda Lewis is a Developer Relations Engineer on the DORA Advocacy team at Google Cloud. She leads the development of the DORA Community of Practice and is a co-author of the 2023 Accelerate State of DevOps Report. Her career has been spent building connections across teams to develop e-commerce platforms, content management systems, observability tools, and support developers. She helps teams develop a culture of continuous improvement to deliver improved well-being and better outcomes for the business.

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.

Jon Jensen is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix working to improve the developer experience for other UI engineers. Previously he worked at Amazon and Instructure, working on all things software-y. In his spare time he's usually in the mountains or playing with his kids.

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.

My primary interest is self development and craftsmanship. I enjoy exploring technologies, coding open source and enterprise projects, teaching, speaking and writing about programming - JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, JSON Schema, DevOps, Web Components, Algorithms 👋 ⚽️ 🧑‍💻 🎧

Kiki is a Program Manager on the Windows UI Platform team and comes from a game design and development background.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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