JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Senior Frontend Developer at Brella

CPO at Wing Cloud Inc.

Managing Consultant @ Columbia Road, Advisor, Coach, Teacher.

Will Johnston is a Developer Advocate on the DevRel team at WP Engine. He started coding when he was 10 years old, and began coding professionally at 15. He got his start working on an open source competency tracking tool for schools with Python and Zope. Will founded Covalence alongside Matt Landers, and served as CTO. At WP Engine, Will is excited to help make the headless CMS world a better place by helping others embrace headless and make the most out of new tools and technologies.

Based out of Toronto, Canada, Abhijeet Prasad is the maintainer of Sentry's open source error and performance monitoring JavaScript 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.

I'm currently working at Wix.com as a software engineer in the very exciting Wix’s Data Science group. I'm an open-source enthusiast, have a fetish for web performance, love technology at its best when it's visual, and… mixing techno sounds at night!

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 Director of AI at Elementor, where he leads the company's AI strategy and guides teams through the integration of GenAI technologies that enhance productivity while preserving human creativity and accountability. With over 15 years of experience as a developer, manager, director, and adviser across multiple tech companies and startups, Dennis has dedicated his career to building people-first cultures rooted in continuous learning, curiosity, and growth. He believes that when individuals thrive, teams and businesses flourish, a philosophy that has guided him in founding dozens of teams and mentoring over 100 managers. Dennis is a seasoned public speaker and writer who shares his insights on AI integration, leadership, and team performance at international conferences. He's passionate about helping leaders develop the skills and confidence to excel in a world where human leadership and AI collaboration go hand in hand. In his free time, Dennis loves cooking and spending time with his kids. His main goal is to help people reach 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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Senior AI Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience in software development and 2+ years of experience developing AI-driven tools and solutions. Expertise in LangChain, LangGraph, and RAG with hands-on development of multi-agent applications, Agentic workflows, and knowledge graphs systems at scale.