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!

Misha Kaletsky
expect-type Creator, USA
Misha Kaletsky is an active open-source contributor, known for projects like expect-type, trpc-cli and eslint-plugin-codegen. Misha has specialized in C#, F# and TypeScript at Microsoft, since building out multiple healthcare startups from scratch, almost exclusively in TypeScript. He has a particular interest in developer productivity and type safety for large-scale applications. Misha lives across the river in Brooklyn with his wife and one-year old son (with a second due a few weeks before JSNation!).

Darko Bozhinovski
SuperTokens, Macedonia
Darko is a webdev nerd who loves the web platform. He is passionate about technical challenges, open-source software, and Linux. Since 2017, he has been active in the Macedonian IT community, organizing events, conferences, lectures, mentorships, and digital content creation. Currently, he's a part of the DevRel team at SuperTokens.

Matt Colman
Atlassian, Australia
A dad, a drummer and JavaScript lover!
Matt has a background in animation, games dev and frontend web dev. Passionate about all things frontend. Super passionate about working in teams and helping engineers grow. Matt has lead teams at Blake, Domain and now currently at Atlassian.

Mike North
Elementum, USA
Mike is a passionate software engineer with an intense focus on community. His expertise has been spent organizing multiple meetup groups (React Utah, UtahJS, Free Code Camp), Improving training and content for local bootcamps and universities, running open source projects, and becoming a tech conference organizer and speaker. His goal is to help break barriers for those entering the tech industry.

François-Julien Alcaraz
Crystal Intelligence, UK
François-Julien Alcaraz is a technology executive with 15+ years of experience across fintech, cybersecurity, and blockchain. Currently VP of Engineering at Crystal Intelligence, he leads large-scale engineering, data, and infrastructure teams focused on blockchain analytics for financial crime investigation. Former founder and CTO, he specializes in Web3, compliance, and building high-impact engineering organizations.

Lucas Leadbetter
Apollo, USA
Lucas is a Solutions Architect at Apollo Graph, working with companies on GraphQL implementations at scale. Prior to his time at Apollo Graph he worked at Twitch, helping game developers bring new experiences to the site. When not working, he spends his time gaming and exploring NYC.

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.

Felix Wotschofsky
Kombo, Germany
As long as I can remember, I've always been fascinated by computers and have loved creating things. So for the last 8+ years, I have been shipping a bunch of fun (and serious) stuff.
Currently building the unified API for HRIS, ATS and Payroll as Engineer at Kombo (YC S22) in Berlin.
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.










