JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Software Engineer with 10 years of experience in the information technology, financial services industry, and public sector working on multi-million-dollar products. Shivangi is passionate about promoting women in tech and helping them get paid more.

Andrew is a theatre kid turned software developer. He got his BA in psychology and theatre from Hobart College and his MA from the University of Central Florida. After a range of disparate adventures including acting, consulting, teaching, and recruiting, he attended the full-stack software engineering program at Thinkful, after which he joined Bitovi as a React Developer. Andrew consults for Fortune 500 companies like Yum and Aflac, helping them build high performing and scalable React applications Originally from Massachusetts, he currently lives with his partner in Buffalo, NY. In his free time you'll probably find him cooking, reading, board-gaming, skiing, or cheering on the Boston Bruins. Mostly just that last one.

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.

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.

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.

DevOps, Agile/Scrum and Continuous Delivery coach especially within enterprise organizations. Improving people, processes and techniques is what I constantly do. In the end it's the results that matter!

Principal Frontend Engineer at Zattoo | React Berlin Meetup Organizer | Crafting symbols for over a decade 👨‍💻✨

Known as TiKevin83 online, Travis McGeehan is a Senior Software Engineer at GFS in West Michigan specializing in frontend optimization during the day and with a knack for video archival techniques from years spent organizing the TASVideos and TASBot communities and making retro game TASes.

Software Engineer at Stellate, passionate about problem solving and company building, using GraphQL, JavaScript and React

Staff Engineer at Ibotta, formerly co-founder and COO of OctoShop before its acquisition by Ibotta.

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!

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.

Rick is a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg working on JavaScript tooling and infrastructure, and a delegate for TC39, currently thinking about immutability in JavaScript!

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.

Brendan is a senior software engineer working on graphics and the web platform for Unity Technologies, where he combines his love of creativity and technology. Before Unity, Brendan has 20+ years working in animation studios such as Disney, and technology companies such as Google.

Yshay Yaacobi is the co-founder and CTO at Livecyle, an early-stage startup that specializes in collaboration on top of live environments. Yshay has more than a decade of experience with web and cloud technologies, has given local talks about various technologies and is co-organizer of the Rx-Israel meetup group. He is passionate about programming languages, functional programming, cloud and system architecture. Yshay is extremely interested in open source, and is the lead developer of Tweek (git.io/tweek) - a cloud native open-source feature manager. Over the last few years Yshay has been using Docker and Kubernetes heavily and has also given sessions in several cloud-native/devops meetups and events.

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.

I am Managing Director of cismet GmbH. cismet GmbH was founded in 2002 as a spin-off of the Environmental Informatics Group at the Saarland University of Applied Sciences and develops open source-based solutions in the municipal sector.