JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Scott Gerlach is Co-founder and Chief Security Officer at StackHawk, a Denver-based startup focused on empowering engineers to easily identify and remediate security bugs. Scott brings over two decades of security and engineering experience to his current role, having served as CSO, CISO, and in other executive leadership functions at companies like SendGrid, Twilio, and GoDaddy. When he's not at work, you'll find Scott spending time with family, brewing beer, and playing guitar.

Cody is a software engineer consultant, developer relations engineer, and university instructor with a passion for learning and sharing technology. He teaches a university web development course and loves interacting with developers of all experience levels. He started speaking internationally in 2022 at React Summit and NodeConf EU as well as hosting some of the events connected to NodeConf EU. His current passion is building full-stack and decentralized applications using all OSS technologies.

Chris Ng is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn based in New York City. Chris leads the linting strategy for LinkedIn's flagship web application and brings together different teams and personalities to achieve shared goals related to web infrastructure, product strategy, and resolving long standing issues.

Developer at basement.studio specializing in React, Three.JS and WebXR. I’m currently focused on pushing the boundaries of the web with shaders and bridging the gap between AI and spatial computing. When I’m not fine-tuning code, I’m experimenting with the future of open-source graphics.

Praveen is a technical lead at Wednesday Solutions. He's an open source and a sports enthusiast. He loves taking on challenging problems.

I am around the industry for quite a long time having experience spanning over multiple decades. Started coding with the procedural programming approach in Basic and C. Then witness the rise of Object Oriented paradigm and spent years developing in ActionScript and C# and Java and later Ruby and Javascript. Was part of the e-commerce boom and developed hundreds of web portals in PHP, ASP, .NET. The MVC era revolutionized the industry and I contributed through Yii, Zend, CI, CakePHP, Kohana, and later RoR. And now very enthusiastic about the rebirth of functional programming.

Tech Recruiter & Sourcing Trainer. Speaker and community builder, gamer. Currently scaling engineering and art teams at Riot Games.

Alexa is the tech lead for the Grafana Dashboards Squad and is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She sees tech as a way to solve problems and enjoys working with her team every day to roll out features, fix bugs, and sometimes lose at GeoGuessr.

Working on advancing Data Visualization and Data Science with RAPIDS.ai / GPU acceleration at NVIDIA. In a previous life was an Industrial Design Lead.

Ruby Jane Cabagnot is a full-stack DotNET/Reactjs developer based in Oslo, Norway, who published a book about writing Enterprise React applications.

Daniel is an AI Architect at Payoneer with over two decades of experience leading development teams, both in Israel and abroad, from idea to production. His current focus is AI infrastructure and multi-agent systems in real-world use — the layer that ties together developer tools, knowledge graphs, and product delivery. Daniel is a public speaker and a blog writer, and an active contributor to open source. He also runs the "NG-Heroes" meetup, a space for the local tech community to meet and share what they're learning. Outside of work, family comes first. He proudly holds the title of "The Best Developer in the World" — awarded by his wife, and he has no plans to give it back.

I always describe myself as an autodidact who is passionate about learning and exploring new things, and I'm always trying to broaden my perspective. I've created two start-ups, one of which was selected as "Turkey's Best 100th Startup" and was invested in twice by prominent investors. Now, I'm working as a Staff Software Engineer for Delivery Hero in Berlin / Germany.

G. Ann Campbell coded JavaScript for early browsers (think Netscape 3, IE 4), plus Perl, C, and Java. She became a vocal member of the SonarQube community in 2010 and joined SonarSource in 2013, after co-authoring SonarQube in Action. Her software career has spanned support, documentation, coding, and product management. Through the SonarQube community, she has helped hundreds of people understand how to make the most of SonarQube to write Clean and Secure Code.

Aaron “Mitch” Mitchell has 10+ years of experience in product management. He’s consulted for Twitter, Sony, Western Digital, Lyft, and others on new product development and strategy. He is currently the President of HeroDevs and spends his time longboarding and playing with his 3 sons.

Carl is a web developer and team lead at City Dev Labs in Finland. He has over a decade of experience in web development with various frameworks and languages. He likes to take on challenging projects and to learn new things to effectively solve real problems. He focuses on quality code that produces real value to the end user.

Romello Goodman is a creative technologist primarily working with web technologies. By day, he works as a software engineer at The New York Times. By night, he uses a number of different tools to explore the intersection of creativity and code.

Yonatan has been involved in some awesome projects in the academy and the industry - from C/C++ through Matlab to PHP and javascript. Former CTO at Webiks and Software Architect at WalkMe and Vonage. Currently he is a Principle software architect at Quicklizard and an egghead instructor.

Dmitry is a co-founder and CTO of Lowerton. Within the last 13 years, he has worked in numerous startups, helping them grow from early-stage prototypes to fully functional products. He is passionate about software architecture and developer experience. Dmitry has been a co-organizer and active member of the BarcelonaJS (https://www.meetup.com/barcelonajs/) community since 2017.

Hi, I'm Alessandro, a software developer from London. I build a mobile app at Formidable using React Native. I truly believe it is our responsibility to push for accessibility to be considered first-class citizens in our development flow.

Cozycore Engineer

I'm a software engineer who specializes in building web apps using Python, GraphQL and React. Currently, I work as a lead developer at Saleor. I speak at tech conferences about Python and GraphQL. I'm a runner, musician and traveler in my free time. I'm based in Wrocław, Poland.

Daniel Sogl is Director of AI Engineering at SHI GmbH. With a background in FinTech and IT consulting, he helps internal teams and enterprise clients put AI to work in two areas: AI-assisted software engineering and Generative AI. He speaks regularly at international conferences and workshops on turning AI tools into measurable gains in developer productivity and code quality.

Amani Kanu is a Senior Frontend Engineer, Solution Architect, Tech Evangelist, and Tech Career Coach with over half a decade of experience building modern web applications. He works at MUST Company, where he builds scalable frontend products using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and modern web technologies. His work focuses on frontend architecture, performance, developer experience, and building products that serve users across diverse network and device conditions. Amani is also the founder of Calabar Tech Community and Decadev Alumni Network, two communities that support thousands of developers and tech professionals. Through Footprint Mentorship and other mentorship programs, he helps aspiring and growing engineers build technical skills, career confidence, and access to global opportunities. He has spoken at Google I/O Extended Ajah, Web3 Lagos Conference, ETHSafari Kenya, DevFest events, Sailsconf Africa, RubyConf Africa, and several developer community events.

Faris Aziz is a Staff Frontend Engineer, international speaker, and product-minded engineer specializing in React, Next.js, resilient frontend architecture, and payment systems. From founding engineer to Staff Engineer and engineering leader, he has built systems used by tens of millions, co-founded the award-winning ZurichJS community, and speaks about building better software and healthier engineering cultures