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!

Daniel Rios Pavia
Personio, Spain
Daniel is a Lead Frontend Engineer in Design Systems at Personio based in Madrid, Spain. Previously
he was a core maintainer of Shopify's Hydrogen framework and had his own company yellowme.mx for seven years. Outside of work, He is into electronic music, guitars and tennis.

Petros Plakogiannis
Trasys Greece, Greece
Petros Plakogiannis lives in Greece. He has graduated from the University of Piraeus and the Technological Educational Institute of Crete. He has been working professionally as a software tester since 2009, with a strong focus on automated testing using various tools like QTP, Selenium, Protractor, Cypress, etc. He also has significant experience in white box testing, application testing (desktop, web, and mobile), and security testing. He travels a lot and supports customers onsite by providing information regarding automation testing. He is also a Cypress Ambassador and the main organizer of the Ministry of Testing Athens meetups, and he is very active in the testing community
Alexander Varwijk
Open Social, The Netherlands
Alexander is a full-stack developer that spends his day to day with PHP and Drupal. Front-end work is done using ReScript, React and GraphQL and as a hobby he's building things with Rust.
At Open Social he is the Technical Architect and drives the development of the GraphQL API and supports teams by providing the technical architecture for Open Social's Products. As the first decoupled project at Open Social he has architected and implemented a Real-Time Chat.

Roman Sandler
Fiverr, Israel
Roman Sandler is a former educator turned self-taught software engineer. Roman spends most of his time working on the Fiverr Business platform at Fiverr, focusing on UI development. Roman cares deeply about test automation and has spent the last few years coming up with patterns and practices to do so in a reliable and sustainable way.
Aleksandar Gekov
Axion BioSystems, Netherlands
Alexander Gekov is a skilled Vue developer based in the Netherlands. He is enthusiastic about the Vue.js framework and actively works to contribute to the frontend development community through writing blog posts and recording educational videos.

Buddha Bhattacharya
Tyk, Singapore
Founder of WAYV Digital, providing business strategy and technology solutions for impact-driven companies to help them scale up, become sustainable and spread their impact around the world. Currently working with companies across 5 continents in the areas of education, disability care, healthcare and sustainable e-commerce.
A dynamic leader with experience across both technical and managerial roles. Extensive experience in client and stakeholder engagement, combined with an expertise in solution consultancy across multiple technology platforms ensures successful product delivery time after time.
Key competencies:
• Technical consultancy and delivery- Kentico, Sitefinity, Sitecore, Drupal, WordPress, AWS, Azure
• Solution Architecture (cloud, web, apps)
• Product management
• Agile delivery as Professional Scrum Master
• Team management and leadership
• Technical Project management and direction
• Full stack web development (JS - React, Angular; Python; PHP)
Dedicated to building communities to tackle the UN Sustainable Development Goals and passionate about helping those who wish to change the world!

Rumen Manev
Financial Times, Bulgaria
I'm Rumen and I'm a self-taught software engineer from Sofia, Bulgaria. After graduating with a business degree and working as a sales rep for a few years I decided I'd much rather be involved in building digital products than selling them. Ten years later this is the best decision I ever made.

Peter Nijenhuis
S0L1D Heroes, Netherlands
DevOps is one of my greatest passions. Guiding teams in the DevOps way of working, helping and facilitating them in achieving the ultimate goal of becoming a high performing team.
What I often see at companies, that they’re trying to adopt the DevOps way of working with a technical approach. They often start with automation. While automation is a huge aspect of DevOps, it isn’t the key to success. Mindset and behavior is in my opinion the key to success. Getting the right culture and a facilitating governance with its processes within the company. Only then you can be successful in adopting the DevOps way of working.

Tamta Asatiani
CIDA, Georgia
I got into game development at the age of 15 thinking it would be a temporary hobby. It ended up being my entire life. I'm very passionate for innovative game design and currently have 3 mobile games, 2 browser games and 3 PC games released. I also have a small youtube channel about game development and game design.

Kelli Rockwell
Sourcegraph, USA
Kelli is a fullstack engineer based in Seattle, WA and working at Sourcegraph to build tools that improve how we work with code. When she's not consuming boba, aka bubble tea, you can usually find her evangelizing TypeScript at yet another developer meet-up, advocating for women and underrepresented folks in tech, or nagging her teammates to update the docs.

Philip Chimento
Igalia, S.L., Canada
JavaScript engine developer, free software enthusiast, GNOME maintainer, hiker, technology skeptic, lapsed laser physicist.

Joren Broekema
Netherlands
My background is in Industrial Design where I slowly fell in love with web development and code. I have been a front-end developer for almost 3 years professionally. I also like to dabble in backend and DevOps in my spare time or when work allows for it. I have started doing more workshops and trainings since the last year, and I created a project called code-workshop-kit where I try to use a combination of tools, some of which I created myself, to make code workshops work well remotely.

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.

Leo Kettmeir
Deno, Netherlands
I am a software engineer at Deno who works on developer experience, implementing web APIs, improving auto-generated documentation, and more. When I am not programming, I tinker with 3D printers & fly drones.

Shayan Menahi
T-Mobile, USA
Shayan is a Product Manager at T-Mobile leading the race for AI in mobile apps. He has designed and shipped AI features at scale to millions of customers. His work was featured in an OpenAI livestream and has delivered significant ROI in big wireless. Previously Founding Engineer at Zenduty, where he spearheaded frontend engineering and helped grow ARR by 11.2x in 2.5 years, followed by a successful acquisition.

Kajetan Świątek
SoftServe, Poland
Former construction engineer, now building software instead. Front-end developer, recent functional programming enthusiast. Enjoys learning new things and sharing his findings via blog posts or tech talks.

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.

Thomas Vidas
Ionic, USA
Thomas is a cross-functional Software engineer with a focus on mobile and web applications. He currently works at Ionic as the Developer Experience Engineer on Capacitor. In his free time, he likes to compose music, create 3d art/animations, and participate in game dev jams.

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.
Jerel Miller
Apollo GraphQL, USA
Jerel is a Sr Staff Software Engineer at Apollo GraphQL maintaining the Apollo TypeScript Client living in beautiful Colorado, USA. He loves the art of software development and finding creative solutions to challenging problems.

André Kovac
André Kovac Intelligent Computing, Freelance Software Engineer and Technology Trainer, Berlin, Germany
I'm a freelance software engineer, former CTO and lifelong teacher. Back in 2010 I wrote neural networks from scratch in Java to model parts of the brain. These days I build mobile and web apps with AI agents and teach technical as well as non-technical teams about AI and software development.
For years I also taught React and React Native, but now I outsource these skills to agents. For the past year I've shared thoughts about the AI shift on LinkedIn. On stage, I try to make complex things feel fun, interactive and a bit human.

(Erik) Lars Olson
TAIT, USA
Hey! My name is Lars Olson, I am a Senior Software Engineer @ TAIT, one of the leading engineering and automation companies for the live entertainment industry. In my free time, you can find me hiking, skiing, or working on my side project, My Hometown Recipes!

