JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

Jake is Figma's first developer advocate, and spent the prior 12 years working as a software engineer on both sides of web applications. Guided by a design education, he's held roles across creative agencies and e-commerce platforms, married design fidelity with developer experience building component libraries for design systems, and built tools for front-end developers as an early hire at CodePen. Jake loves to walk the line between design and code, bridge gaps in communication across product development, and bring as much fun and creativity to the work that he can manage to cram in along the way.

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 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.

A curious and passionate web engineer who loves speaking JavaScript with machines. I got 5+ years of creating frontend experiences for humans.

Miraan is the founder at Hypertune. He was previously at Meta where he led teams across frontend, mobile, backend and machine learning.

Software engineer of over 10 years, currently occupied with all the things about front-end infrastructure and developer happiness. Talk to me about the Web Platform, browser guts and specialty coffee!

Engineer at Jam.dev, ex-Cloudflare, very-full-stack engineer who aims to solve customer problems by whatever engineering means necessary.

Staff Engineer @bam_lab. I focus on architecture & security guidelines, training, and providing the best tools to our teams to create awesome React Native apps.

Elliott lives in the beautiful city of Denver, Colorado, where he spends his free time doing Dangerous Outdoor Activities. During the day, he works as a Growth Engineer at Vercel, and, when he can, he helps maintain the world's best web framework, SvelteKit.

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.

Senior Frontend Engineer at Uberall. I strive to understand how things work under the hood to unravel their mysteries, especially in JavaScript. Also I'm very interested in sustainable web development.

Stuart is the founder of Comnoco, a visual programming tool for backend dev. His current interest is in turning frontends into full stack apps, by building scalable code agnostic functions, using no-code and AI. Having built and worked with different business automation software he advocates for faster, more accessible dev. He has two daughters and one dog. In his free time, when he's not learning new technologies he's probably walking the dog

With over 14 years of extensive engineering experience, I am a seasoned QA Engineering Manager with a profound passion for technology, a strong affinity for open source, and an unwavering commitment to fostering vibrant and inclusive communities.

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.

Get started with AG Grid React Data Grid with a hands-on tutorial from the core team that will take you through the steps of creating your first grid, including how to configure the grid with simple properties and custom components. AG Grid community edition is completely free to use in commercial applications, so you'll learn a powerful tool that you can immediately add to your projects. You'll also discover how to load data into the grid and different ways to add custom rendering to the grid. By the end of the workshop, you will have created an AG Grid React Data Grid and customized with functional React components.

Based out of Toronto, Canada, Abhijeet Prasad helps maintain Braintrust's open source AI Observability SDKs. He's super passionate about web standards and helping people write faster, cleaner code. When he’s not debugging performance problems or practicing the dark arts of monkey-patching, you can find him diving into fantasy novels or playing armchair NBA team GM.

Sergio Mendonça is an engineering leader and former CTO with a strong background in hands-on architecture and distributed systems. He is currently an Engineering Manager at Delivery Hero (Pandora) in Berlin, where he leads teams working on mission-critical order and settlement systems. Previously, he co-founded and served as CTO of Mettzer, an edtech platform, where he led product scaling, payments/subscriptions, and engineering operations.

Kevin Uehara is a Frontend Engineer at iFood and an active Google Developer Groups Campinas (GDG) collaborator. Recognized twice as a Microsoft MVP for his contributions to the tech community, Kevin is also the organizer of FrontIn Campinas, as well as an international and national speaker and tech content creator. Based in Brazil, he is passionate about sharing knowledge and inspiring other developers in the frontend ecosystem.

Senior lead software engineer with 16+ years of experience building large-scale platforms and leading multi-million dollar projects. Co-founder of multiple startups, open-source contributor, and UK Global Talent Visa holder. Named World’s Most Influential Mentor and #1 Mentor in Europe by ADPList. Former WorldSkills medalist and expert in IT Software Solutions.

Paul is a Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Sentry.io. He has a background that spans engineering, product management, and UX design. He has a soft spot for dev tools and loses sleep over making things easy to understand and use.

Anemari Fiser is a tech leadership trainer, coach and O’Reilly author of Leveling Up as a Tech Lead. With over a decade in tech, she has coached 500+ engineers and trained 400+ tech leads worldwide, and shares practical leadership insights on LinkedIn with a community of 30,000+ tech professionals.

Murat was born in Turkey and has lived around Chicago for over 20 years. He graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology with a computer engineering bachelor's and contributed at Siemens for over a decade. He is married with two daughters; 9 and 11 years old. He lives to do corrective deeds; learn, teach, fix what is broken, improve and optimize all things around at work, open source, and home life. He is a tech enthusiast in love with testing, development, devops, web and cloud. Currently he is a Staff Engineer & Test Architect at Extend.

Anna Backs is an APM consultant and software developer working for codecentric. When she is not outside with her dog or absorbed in the world of Shadowrun, she is usually found building some thing or another in JavaScript. She loves coffee, good stories and learning new things.