JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Indie developer in his free time, writes code + does generally awesome web and gaming stuff @ Poki.

Ashwin has 3+ years of experience with machine learning and building applications around it. He has in past worked at man startups eventually moving to big tech and mid sized companies and have helped build teams from ground up. He regularly guides and advises pre seed startups to help them develop their product and guide them as a mentor. He believes he still has much to learn everytime he gets to know something new and values sharing his knoweldge at events and meetups.

Dennis Nerush is the AI Director at Elementor and has over 15 years of experience as a developer, manager, director, and advisor. He’s a seasoned leader, writer, public speaker, and mentor. Dennis is passionate about complex technological challenges, culture, and people growth. He constantly looks for ways to improve and optimize team performance and personal skills. Dennis founded dozens of teams and helped countless managers boost their leadership skills. In his free time, Dennis loves cooking and spending time with his kids. His main goal is to help people get to the next level.

Christian used to be a high-school teacher and lecturer at university before he started pursuing a career as a Software Engineer. Together with his team he is racing against the JavaScript ecosystem trying to implement support for new technologies within WebStorm.

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

Yash is taking a break from university. He is curious about observability and performance in large systems and constantly seeks new insights in these areas. As an active advocate of OpenTelemetry, he contributes to both the project and the broader community. Outside of tech, he’s an enthusiastic explorer - whether experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen or traveling the world to experience diverse cuisines.

Amila Godwin is a solution architect at WSO2, specialising in the design and implementation of robust and secure Identity and access management (IAM) platforms. He works closely with global solution architecture (SA) teams and partners to help organisations to build scalable and efficient IAM solutions that meet their security and compliance needs. Prior to joining WSO2, Godwin worked as a co-founder/engineer at a startup, where he was responsible for designing and developing augmented reality and smart card based solutions. He is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), and Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS).

Michele is an independent Full Stack developer who's been working with React Native since 2018. He rebuilt JustWatch's mobile apps, where he formerly led the TV apps team. He's been a member of the Program Committee for React Day Berlin since 2023.

Building open-source internationalization tooling at Inlang

Developer Advocate @Fauna

Mindset and Wellbeing Coach to the Software Engineering Industry Richard is self-taught and has over 24 years experience working as a Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Engineering Manager and Software Architect. Feeling the need to contribute more than just lines of code to the software engineering industry, Richard trained to become a mindset coach and personal trainer to help software engineers protect their wellbeing and mental health, which is vital for success in our industry.

Rahul is the CEO and Co-Founder of ImageKit.io, a leading SaaS platform that helps developers optimize, transform and deliver high-quality images and videos on the web.

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 Uber, building the platform that powers its systems. Enjoys creating spaces where developers connect and share ideas.

Ryan Severns is Co-Founder & COO at StackHawk where he spends his time getting application security into the hands of developers. Prior to StackHawk, he led analytics, marketing, and growth teams at VictorOps and JumpCloud. He loves end-user focused software, data, and chips & salsa.

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.

Philipp loves to code and teach people. His first project was a webpage to manage which of his friends had borrowed which VHS. It was this project that also convinced him that the internet is where the future is. Fast forward some 20 years and he is still coding. He currently works as CTO at auteon.

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.

Francois is the Revenue Ops person at Prismic. For his team he has experience with the recruitment process of two roles: Solutions Engineer and Growth Engineer. These are pretty new kinds of roles, but which are very popular recently and that you might want to hear about if you are an engineer who enjoys understanding the business side of things.

Matt works on the Workers Distributed Data team, contributing to the runtime implementation of Durable Objects.

Laura is a software engineer obsessed with front-end development. She is also teaching teenagers about Web Technologies. 2 years ago Laura was on the Dark side - developing with COBOL programming language on Mainframe supercomputers! Due to slow evolvement and limitations of used technologies, she decided to shift them pretty drastically. Laura believes we shouldn't stick to any specific technology in this rapidly evolving IT World, but try and use various different ones instead. Every new experience increases our creativity, knowledge, curiosity and expands mindset. Her latest discovery was music programming, and she wants to share it with us!

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.

Last 7 years Yannick was working as a software/devops engineer and did a lot of open source work. Since February 2023 he is a teacher (mainly for JavaScript) at BBZ CFP Biel/Bienne. Therefore, he has a bit less time to work on maintaining OpenSource work. On the side he manage commercial (non-opensource) software products in the Finance and Healthcare industry.

Emily is a frontend developer based in Toronto with over a decade of experience building sleek, responsive user interfaces. She is passionate about contributing to the open source community and actively engages in local tech meetups and events. Beyond code, Emily enjoys exploring the outdoors—whether hiking scenic trails or biking through the city—keeping life as adventurous as the projects she works on.