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!
Robert Pop
NorSoft Development, Romania
Co-Founder, Entrepreneur, Software Engineer, Consultant, Trainer
I am passionate about technology and building products that solve real world problems.
I love to teach people how to code and get them started on their coding journey. I've held many workshops and guided students into the world of programming.
My passions include building products, learning new things, sharing my knowledge, and helping others.
Andy Desmarais
Meltwater, USA
Andy Desmarais is a father of 4 who aims to constantly be learning and growing with the ever evolving web platform. He has over 15 years of experience with web development and has grown his skills with the web platform along the way. An avid outdoorsman he enjoys spending time hiking, climbing, and just being outside!
Ray Luxembourg
Sisense, Israel
Ray Luxembourg is a Technical Lead at Sisense, where he designs and develops frontend cross-framework Software Development Kits (SDKs). With expertise in React,Vue, Angular, and backend technologies, Ray focuses on creating seamless integration and enhanced usability across diverse platforms. He has been recognized for his innovative solutions, including a CEO Award for Product Innovation. Ray is passionate about improving development processes and utilizing AI to optimize software functionality and education.
Yash Verma
University of Calgary, Canada
Yash is a computer science student and a computing researcher at the University of Calgary. His interest in Distributed Systems and Performance, along with his passion for Open Source Observability, drives him to speak about these topics at tech conferences around the world. Outside of his technical pursuits, Yash enjoys cycling and trekking.
Alina Dima
Amazon Web Services, Germany
Alina Dima is a Senior Developer Advocate in the IoT Ecosystem Services team at Amazon Web Services. She is passionate about helping developers accelerate their journeys in the IoT ecosystem, and working with IoT communities to build better and move faster, from prototype to scale. Alina has worked in various industries such as telecommunications, manufacturing, automotive, retail, and photovoltaic. With nearly 20 years of experience as a software engineer, technical delivery manager and architect, she has designed and built multiple highly scalable, operationally ready IoT solutions, with millions of devices running in production today. Alina has shared her knowledge at various events, such as DevCon, Highload, re:Invent, AWS Summits and online Webinars.
Christian Stuff
Daily, Germany
Christian is an experienced, hands-on frontend developer with a history dating back to the days of table-based layouts and using background images for rounded corners. He's worked with clients of varying industries and sizes. He's been with Daily since early 2020, working on Daily Prebuilt, Daily’s ready-to-go embeddable solution for video calls of all sizes, and Daily React, Daily’s React library for building audio and video in React apps.
Stephan Schneider
Contentful, Germany
Stephan Schneider is a backend developer at Contentful. Since 2018 GraphQL is not just an interesting technology for him anymore when he started participating in the company's initial development of their first GraphQL API. He has not stepped back since and constantly plays with new ways to integrate pre-existing data into GraphQL.
Kyle Simpson
Software Engineer, Public Speaker, and Teacher, USA
Kyle Simpson is a human first and then an engineer. His mission is to show the world that the culture of empathy and relational information exchange are keys to unlocking the full potential of every human in the workplace. JS and open web technologies are among Kyle's favorite tools to augment human endeavors. Kyle has published 10+ books on JS, taught thousands of developers from teams around the world, and his training videos have been watched over 750,000 hours. He's still fighting for the people behind the pixels.
Nico Krüger
Rollbar, USA
Nico is the Senior Director of Solutions Engineering at Rollbar. He has spent over 13 years working with companies around the world to improve their software development lifecycle focused on quality critical applications. His passion is helping teams deliver quality products to market faster.
“Do what you love and love what you do!”
Dianing Yudono
Shopify, UK
Dianing Yudono has over a decade of software engineering experience in different products, teams and cultures. She is currently at BCG Digital Ventures, a global company that invents, launches and scales disruptive businesses. Before that, she was at ThoughtWorks, a global software consultancy.
Elena Vilchik
Sonar, Switzerland
Elena is a Software Engineer at Sonar, which provides tooling around code quality and security. Her main project is a static code analyzer for JavaScript and TypeScript used by SonarQube, SonarCloud, and SonarLint. Elena focuses on the clean code and tries to ensure the precision of the developed analyzer.
Aditi Verma
McKinsey & Company, Vietnam
Experienced solution architect and full stack developer with 5 years of experience @McKinsey & Company. Life as a technical consultant has given me the opportunity to explore breadth of stack for various clients and suggesting improvements in development practices, code quality and architecture.
Anton Kazakov
Canonical, Germany
Mentorship available
Anton is an Engineering Director at Canonical (the publisher of Ubuntu). He's built and scaled teams, shaped tech organisations in the SaaS and B2C worlds. He has a passion for systemic approaches and helping people thrive and grow. He mentors other tech leaders helping their leadership journey go more quickly and smoothly. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking, mountain skiing, and family time.
Oleksii Levzhynskyi
Grammarly, Portugal
I’m an Area Tech Lead at Grammarly. I have 12 years of experience building web-based applications that millions of users use. In my spare time, I contribute to open-source, write technical articles, give public talks, and serve on the program committee of fwdays conferences.
Michael Zion
MeteorOps, Israel
Helping startups outperform their competitors (using DevOps). Programming since the age of 12 (with breaks here and there, don’t worry). Operating high-scale systems since 18, and obsessed with DevOps since 20. Exploring new ways for startups to enjoy DevOps, and writing about it on my website. Occasionally playing guitar in jam sessions, and eating sandwiches in a different kind of jam sessions.
Toni Petrina
Visma, Denmark
Tech lead at Visma e-conomic, developer at heart and frequent speaker at conferences, user groups and local events. Started in QBasic, went through C++ to C#, finally settled in...full-stack? He spends most of the time at the keyboard typing yet another demo or application. If you take his keyboard away from him, he will talk endlessly about code...and functional programming. Been coding for over a decade to know if something is a programming fad or not. And no, functional programming is not a fad at all. Strong proponent of Open Source and all things chocolate.