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.

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.

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.

Kevin Uehara is a Frontend Engineer at iFood and an active Google Developer Groups Campinas (GDG) collaborator. Recognized twice as a Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert (GDE) for his contributions to the tech community, Kevin is also the organizer of FrontIn Campinas, as well as an international and national speaker and tech content creator. Based in Brazil, he is passionate about sharing knowledge and inspiring other developers in the frontend ecosystem.

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.

Engineering Manager at Zapp with 17+ 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.

Hema Sai Charan Kothamasu is a Lead Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building Android, Flutter, React, and developer tooling solutions. He is an active community organizer and technical speaker who regularly shares practical engineering insights through conferences, workshops, and developer meetups. His work focuses on developer experience, engineering productivity, and building tools that help developers better understand modern applications. His latest project, Inspectra, explores new approaches to runtime inspection, source navigation, and developer workflows for large frontend applications. When he's not building software, you'll usually find him mentoring developers, contributing to developer communities, or experimenting with AI-powered engineering tools.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

My name is Carlos Fuentes and I am a Software Engineer with experience in designing cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and IAM. Actively open-source contributor and maintainer of Fastify, Undici and Piscina, and currently employed at Auth0/Okta as a Senior Software Engineer.

Saki is a seasoned software developer with decades of experience, specializing in JavaScript and modern web technologies. He has led the development of numerous web applications across various industries, blending deep technical knowledge with hands-on problem-solving. As a consultant and trainer, he supports teams in building scalable, high-quality solutions. His passion is sharing knowledge and promoting clean, maintainable code.

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.

Faris Aziz is a Staff Frontend Engineer specializing in React, Next.js, monetization systems, and resilient web architecture. He's led teams in early-stage startups and scaling companies, built career ladders from scratch, and shipped systems used by millions. His work spans greenfield builds and legacy refactors across Fintech, SaaS, Fitness, and Connected TV, with companies like Smallpdf, Fiit, Discovery, GCN, and Navro. He focuses on building performant, user-centric applications with solid observability and maintainability. Faris co-organizes ZurichJS, contributes to tools like Raycast, and spends time contemplating life's great questions, like why the build works on his machine but nowhere else.

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

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!

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

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.