JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

My name is Reuben Ellis, and I'm the lead solutions engineer at Chromatic. I've been using Storybook and various visual regression test tools for years. My primary passion and focus have always been on automation testing and integrations! Ultimately, my goal is to make the day-to-day better for other engineers.

Hi, I’m Daniel Jakobsen. I’m a full-stack staff engineer. Active in the javascript space - talking in meetups, blog posts. I enjoy bouldering, DIY projects & tinkering with AI.

I'm creator of the web software and design system at insurtech company, and teaching web development basics for tech-savvy people without access to digital education at non-profit coding school based in Berlin.

Nathan is the tech lead of the DataViz squad at Grafana Labs and is based out of beautiful Monterey, California.

Freelancer • Web and Mobile Tech Lead/PM • Occasional public speaker | I will help you articulate your idea, develop your product and pitch your business.

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.

I'm a Performance Architect @ Wix Viewer. For the last 7 years, I’ve been a part of building the application that renders Wix websites With over 10 years of experience in software development, I started my career in networking and Linux but was always passionate about web development. In the last 3 years, I have been a part of the performance team, where we improve the performance of Wix websites, and make sure Wix websites are the fastest in the world. In my free time, you can find me working out at the park, playing basketball, and also working and maintaining my own NBA website.

I'm a Lead Software Engineer. I have a master degree in applied mathematics and more than 10 years of experience in IT. Worked with different back-end and front-end technologies. Now I work with React and Redux, and I like them a lot. I like to share my knowledge, so I conduct programming courses (JavaScript), write articles and participate in different events.

Bernhard Suhm is the product manager for Machine Learning at MathWorks. He works closely with customer facing and development teams to address customer needs and market trends in our machine learning related products, primarily the Statistics and Machine Learning toolbox. Prior to joining MathWorks Bernhard led analyst teams and developed methods applying analytics to optimizing the delivery of customer service in call centers. He also held positions at a usability consulting company and Carnegie Mellon University. He received a PhD in Computer Science specializing in speech user interfaces from Karlsruhe University in Germany.

Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat and a Node.js Technical Steering Committee Member. Beth has been involved with the Node.js project since 2016, when she joined IBM in their Node.js Runtime Team. Now at Red Hat, she’s continuing her work around Node.js, including contributing to the Node.js project. Beth is an active member of the Node.js Release Working Group, who audit the content for and produce the Node.js releases. Her other focuses are the creation of resources and tooling to support Node.js deployments to cloud.

Armin is a passionate creator by heart, driven by innovation and the power of technology. As a Senior Software Engineer at TechMiners, he crafts cutting-edge tools that empower seasoned tech analysts to deliver unparalleled insights to clients. With a flair for both art and code, Armin finds joy in every challenge, making an impact no matter the medium or toolset.

Asaf is Lorem Ipsum Engineer at Descope (he will explain the job title during the workshop). Asaf enjoys solving complex problems, working with people, staring up at the stars, and not taking himself too seriously.

I am a seasoned developer and architect with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, specializing in high-scale frontend development. Over the past decade, my career has been focused on empowering various startups by enhancing their frontend capabilities, with a particular emphasis on React and Vue technologies. My professional journey includes significant contributions to companies like Cybereason, Slice, Plank, Axonius, and Lifion, across diverse locations such as Tel Aviv, New York, and Amsterdam. Additionally, I have shared my insights and experiences at prominent industry events, including speaking engagements at React Summit and other JavaScript conferences throughout Europe. Currently, I lead SquadX, a small but highly focused team of frontend specialists. Our mission is to assist startups in boosting their frontend operations to new heights of efficiency and effectiveness.

Diana is a Site Reliability Engineer at Elastic. She focuses on Observability. Her passions revolve around serverless, machine learning and AI.

I'm a computer scientist by education, a software developer by trade, and a serial technologist at heart. In short, my passion is solving technical problems. As a solutions architect at Tyk, I help companies design and architect API management platforms and digital transformation journeys.

Career at the intersection of technology and business. Experienced product commercialization manager. Tech Geek following evolution in the space from hardware, software and business models

I've spent 17 years in software engineering, dedicating 12 of those to the development of security systems. Although this work was deeply valued, my true passion has always lain in game development. For the past 5 years, I've been immersing myself in this field - a passion I've been privileged to indulge while working at My.Games. I've contributed to the development of the popular video game, "Left To Survive," which boasts over 60 million installs and an impressive revenue of $120 million to date. Aside from my hands-on work, I've maintained active involvement in the wider tech community. My articles have been published on popular platforms such as Hackernoon.com, DZone.com, and Medium.com. I've also had the honor of serving as a judge for prestigious competitions like the Globee Awards, the CODiE Awards, and various hackathons.

Adrian Herbez has over 20 years of experience in games, web development, and virtual worlds. He has worked at Linden Lab, at Sony (on Playstation Home), and at Together Labs. He was a co-founder at Jamwix, creators of the first feature-length VR movie (Banshee Chapter: Oculus Edition) and has presented work as part of the VR Village at SIGGRAPH 2016. He also taught Maya for years at the Academy of Art, and is the author of the "Maya Programming with Python Cookbook" published by Packt.

I'm a Full Stack Developer working mainly with Node.js and React. In my free time I like to read books and articles, cook, and walk in the nature. I'm also interested in content creation! I try to share what I learn on my personal YouTube channel.

As Vultr's Developer Advocate, Walt Ribeiro helps create educational materials for developers and technologists including video/written how-to guides, product demos, reference materials, best practices, code samples, and training. Having been a broadcast engineer at Youtube Space LA, he understands online content and production and is excited to bring that energy to Vultr's growing community across all sites, meetups, and events.

Full Stack Developer at Shell, experienced in building SASS stacks, scalable and optimized cloud services.

Experienced Business Development Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Sales, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Event Management, Management, and Account Management. Strong business development professional with a Finance focused in Economics and African American History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Frontend developer, data visualisation engineer, writer, and fan of simplicity (in code as in life). Her mind belongs to deep conversations and translation. Her heart belongs to snow and surf.

Adron has a wide range of companies, programming, and database experience. This includes companies ranging from small startups to 200k plus person enterprises and the respective challenges of design and architecture for these companies. In programming, Adron is fluent in C#, JavaScript, and Go, with experience in F#, Java, C++, Erlang, COBOL, and others, for a truly polyglot perspective of language approaches and their technology stacks. But, I get super frustrated writing in the third person for various reasons. So I like to think of me as jovial, proactive, test & code, code & test, get things done well, software architect, engineer, code monkey, coder, and distributed systems advocate. I go by the title of “Coder, Messenger, Recon” as it seems to encompass what I do.