JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Currently working with the CKEditor 5 core team on the editor framework, its ecosystem, and developer experience. Ex-developer turned into a product person but still codes for fun and brain practice. Strong opinions weakly held, and often overruled by his two kids.

Omer Kenet is a seasoned product leader and expert in the realm of front-end tooling and visual coding. For the past four years, he has been serving as the Head of Product for Codux, a visual editor for React projects. With over a decade of experience in the industry, he also co-founded RapidUI, an advanced visual editing environment that automates front-end coding from designs. Passionate about designer-developer collaboration, visual-approach tooling, and all things product, Omer is dedicated to driving technological advancements in the creative and development communities.

Andy Desmarais is a father of 4 who aims to constantly be learning and growing with the ever evolving web platform. He has over 15 years of experience with web development and has grown his skills with the web platform along the way. An avid outdoorsman he enjoys spending time hiking, climbing, and just being outside!

Core Team member and Tech Lead at RedwoodJS. Lives out in the middle-of-nowhere in Sweden. Likes everything on two wheels and loves to travel.

Jayeeta is a Senior Data Scientist with 4+ years of industry experience. Currently, she is working on machine learning and NLP projects and explores a lot of state-of-the-art models to build cool products at Indellient US Inc., a leading software development and IT professional services company working with Fortune 100 companies. Prior to that, she worked at Deloitte. Jayeeta is also engaged with some amazing organizations like Women Who Code and Women Tech Network to promote and inspire more women to take up STEM and often leads technical webinars and talks. She received her Master of Science in Quantitative Methods and Modeling from City University of New York, NY and Bachelor of Science in Economics and Statistics from West Bengal State University, India.

Front End Engineer interested in design systems, developer productivity + tooling, accessibility, TypeScript, CSS, and UI/UX design. Currently based in San Francisco. 🌉🏳️‍🌈

Alina Dima is a Senior Developer Advocate in the IoT Ecosystem Services team at Amazon Web Services. She is passionate about helping developers accelerate their journeys in the IoT ecosystem, and working with IoT communities to build better and move faster, from prototype to scale. Alina has worked in various industries such as telecommunications, manufacturing, automotive, retail, and photovoltaic. With nearly 20 years of experience as a software engineer, technical delivery manager and architect, she has designed and built multiple highly scalable, operationally ready IoT solutions, with millions of devices running in production today. Alina has shared her knowledge at various events, such as DevCon, Highload, re:Invent, AWS Summits and online Webinars.

Software Engineer working and having fun developing the Spotify client for Smart TVs and Gaming consoles. Freezing (but enjoying) the charming landscapes of the nordics.

Fractional CTO, Software & Business Advisor, and Mentor

Georgios Diamantopoulos is a pragmatic engineer with a unique ability to synthesize complex information and translate it into actionable systems. As co-founder of Zero to MVP since 2019, Georgios and his team have built 25+ scalable systems by taking a holistic view of requirements, constraints, and sustainability. In parallel, his personal journey through the physical challenges of our industry led him to dive deep into health research - not as an outsider, but as someone living the same reality as every developer: the gradual physical toll of prolonged sitting, the cascade of adaptations our bodies make, and the realization that conventional wisdom about developer wellness misses the mark. This first-person perspective, combined with systematic thinking, allows him to bridge cutting-edge research with the day-to-day reality of tech work, addressing the challenges we all face but rarely discuss openly.

Hamza Haoui is a software engineer in the autonomous robotics research center TII , after some years on e-commerce SAAS startups he moved to the autonomous robotics world where they are focusing on developing cutting-edge technologies to solve real-world problems.