JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

**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.

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.

Indie developer in his free time, writes code + does generally awesome web and gaming stuff @ Poki.

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).

Cursor Ambassador, 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.

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.

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

Developer Advocate @Fauna

Suzanne is a Developer Engagement Lead at Microsoft.

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.

Building open-source internationalization tooling at Inlang

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.

Fractional CTO, Software & Business Advisor, and Mentor

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.

Elliott lives in the beautiful city of Denver, Colorado, where he spends his free time doing Dangerous Outdoor Activities. During the day, he works as a Growth Engineer at Vercel, and, when he can, he helps maintain the world's best web framework, SvelteKit.

Tech Lead at Aerafarms, CedarJS maintainer. Lives out in the middle-of-nowhere in Sweden. Likes everything on two wheels and loves to travel.

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.

Hi, I'm Evan Seaward, a Software Engineer originally from Australia and now based in the beautiful city of Wrocław, Poland. I'm passionate about building AI-first applications that push technological boundaries and exploring the unknown.

Matt works on the Workers Distributed Data team, contributing to the runtime implementation of Durable Objects.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!