JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Feross is founder and CEO at Socket (https://socket.dev), a developer-first security platform. Feross has worked in open source software for 10+ years writing some of the most-downloaded JavaScript packages. Feross is a lecturer at Stanford where he teaches CS 253 Web Security. Socket makes a developer-first security platform that prevents vulnerable and malicious open source dependencies from infiltrating your software supply chain. Thousands of organizations in every industry use Socket to safely discover, audit, and manage OSS at scale.

Christoph is the CEO of Nakazawa Tech, an indie game studio and open source company based in Tokyo. As an an experienced engineering manager and frontend lead he has played a key role in the development of tools such as Jest, React Native, Metro, and Yarn while working at companies like Facebook and Stripe. Currently Christoph is building Athena Crisis.

Author of Nuxt and CEO at NuxtLabs. I am passionate about open source and developer experience. I strive to make the web faster and create the flow feeling for developers by making the best tools to express their full creativity.

Jamon is a software developer, business owner, husband, and father of four, located near Portland, Oregon, in SW Washington state. He is one of the co-founders of Infinite Red, Inc., a fully remote React Native app development studio located in the USA and Canada.

Krystal has been working with development for 17 years. During this time she's had the opportunity to work in a wide range of projects from web and mobile applications to games and virtual reality. Currently, she works as a Staff Frontend Developer on the Core Creative team at Shopify, creating delightful interactive experiences. She's also lead the Development of the Polaris-Viz library, been a tech coach on Rails Girls and presented talks and workshops at events like React Summit, CityJS, VueConf, Laracon, and CodeTalks. You can find out more about she's done so far on her website: http://krystalcampioni.com

Sam Sycamore is a Developer Advocate at MUI, where he works on technical documentation and content strategy. In his spare time, he enjoys making music and traveling.

Mike Fleischauer has spent the last decade running GameFromScratch, a community for game development news, game engine and tool reviews and tutorials. He has been a professional developer for over 20 years. YouTube channel – GameFromScratch.

Joe Karlsson is a software engineer turned Developer Advocate at MongoDB. He comes from the frozen tundra of Minneapolis, Minnesota (and yes, it does get really cold here, and no, not everyone here has the accent from the movie, Fargo). Joe has been primarily a Node and JavaScript engineer. He has been writing, teaching, and talking about code his entire career. Sharing what he knows and continuing to learn about programming is truly the thing he loves doing the most.

Mariko is a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer. She works on the Baseline project bringing clarity to information about browser support for web platform features.

Jack Herrington is a principal full stack engineer, author and YouTuber who is trying to bring a practical approach to engineering and education to developers at all skill levels.

I'm a software engineer at Twitter working on the Core API Team helping build the next generation API with GraphQL and Scala. I currently serve on the GraphQL Governing Board as a representative of Twitter. Previously, I worked at Medium as the tech lead of the Platform Team, jumpstarting Medium's move to GraphQL.

Jason is founder of superdesign.dev (Lovable but for production codebase), and was head of product design at Relevance AI (Series B scale up); Meanwhile running a youtube channel AI Jason with 200k sub talking about building LLM applications & agents.

Tomasz is a Frontend Engineer at Stedi. Tech speaker, egghead.io instructor, AWS Certified. His interests include React, AWS, testing, VR and making cheesiest jokes known to mankind.

Shruti Kapoor is an accomplished Staff Engineer with a strong focus on front-end development. Currently employed at Slack, she brings extensive experience to the table from her time at PayPal. With a passion for DevJokes, Shruti has carved out a unique niche in the tech industry, bringing a refreshing sense of humor to her work. In addition to her professional accomplishments, Shruti is also an experienced educator, having taught courses in JavaScript, React, GraphQL, and front-end development. As an egghead instructor, she is dedicated to sharing her knowledge and expertise with others, helping to build the next generation of tech leaders.

Gift Egwuenu is a Developer Advocate at Cloudflare with over 6 years of experience in the web development industry. She is skilled at building tools and products that help businesses scale and is committed to empowering developers through her work in developer relations. Gift is also a respected speaker and content creator, sharing her insights on web development, Jamstack, and career development in the tech industry. In her free time, she enjoys reading, cooking, and traveling.

Award-winning engineering leader, TEDx speaker, and author of Amazon bestselling career guide "You Belong in Tech". She started coding at 8 and has since led teams across consulting, health tech, AI innovation, and media. In 2024, she won Software Engineering Leader of the Year with the WomenTech Global Awards; and in 2025, her technical interview structure, "The McDougall Method" was revealed in a blog post which shot to prominence.

Creator of the State of JS survey.

Independent Consultant. AWS Serverless Hero. Trainer. Blogger. Speaker.

Brian LeRoux is the cofounder of Begin.com, maintainer of Architect (arc.codes), contributor to Enhance, and an AWS Serverless Hero.

Majid Hajian is a passionate software developer with years of developing and architecting complex web and mobile applications. His passions are Flutter, PWA, and performance. He loves sharing his knowledge with the community by writing and speaking, contributing to open source, and organizing meetups and events. Majid is the award-winning author of the "Progressive web app with Angular" book by Apress and the "Progressive Web Apps" video course by PacktPub and Udemy. He is (co)organizer a few Nordic conferences and meetups including GDG Oslo, FlutterVikings, Mobile Era, and ngVikings.

I am Alex 👋, a fully-stacked TypeScripter from Sweden & the creator of tRPC. Been doing html since the late 90s, started a company in 2006 selling Counter-Strike servers & got my first official coding job in 2009. Since then, I have been on 5 continents, lived/worked on 3, and worked for everything from sub 5 people startups to big banks - as a consultant, employee, and founder. From Sweden, living in Malmö. Speak Swedish, English and rusty (Brazilian) Portuguese + Spanish.

Orta is a developer/designer who works on web-powered games. Prior to that, he worked on the TypeScript team in Microsoft. He has a decade of open source contributions ranging across many eco-systems, helps maintain a dependency manager for iOS, built Danger in many languages, contributes to working groups like GraphQL and in core teams like Jest, Svelte and React Native. You've probably seen his open-source design work in the React/TypeScript ecosystem.

Adewale "Ace" Abati is A Web Engineer & Developer Advocate. He’s passionate about the web and its infinite possibilities, open source, sharing his experiences on YouTube and playing video games. He’s currently helping to build and shape a decentralized future for the web and internet as a Staff Developer Advocate at TBD.

Eduardo is a Frontend Nerd who works on the Vue.js Core Team, with a particular focus on its official Router. He's very invested in Open Source, and loves developing maintainable and tested front end architectures.