JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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!

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!

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.

Co-Founder, Entrepreneur, Software Engineer, Consultant, Trainer I am passionate about technology and building products that solve real world problems. I love to teach people how to code and get them started on their coding journey. I've held many workshops and guided students into the world of programming. My passions include building products, learning new things, sharing my knowledge, and helping others.

Christian used to be a high-school teacher and lecturer at university before he started pursuing a career as a Software Engineer. Together with his team he is racing against the JavaScript ecosystem trying to implement support for new technologies within WebStorm.

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.

Joana is a product engineer specialised in bringing groundbreaking projects to fruition with a non-ending curiosity. She has a strong passion for unravelling through the numerous challenges that come up everyday in the life of a dynamic product developer. Her will to share knowledge is only matched by her will to keep growing and learning.

A passionate web aficionado with over a decade of experience, I've been involved in developing accessible web applications that have reached millions of people.

Luis Oliveira is a Staff Engineer at xgeeks with over a decade of experience in developing marketplaces, web applications, and APIs. Passionate about open source, he has contributed to projects like React and Styled Components. Luis is dedicated to driving innovation and collaboration through technology, having worked with leading brands such as Farfetch and Chemondis.

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.

Coder, open-sourcerer, developer experience enthusiast, software architect, and entrepreneur. At work, I oversee and consult in enterprise legacy systems modernization for fortune 500s to small businesses. Outside work I love helping NGOs as a full-stack developer and mentor.

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.

Patrick is a software developer with a passion for web technologies, cloud computing and community building. He is from Nigeria and work as a Developer Relations Engineer at Storyblok.

James is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google, where he empowers developers with the transformative power of generative AI and Firebase Studio. Having worked in technology for what one colleague called "eons in Internet years," his career has been dedicated to improving the user experience. He was an engineering leader for the original HBO GO, led the teams for over a dozen of Discovery's "GO" streaming apps, and once upon a time a Flash evangelist. James is a passionate leader who excels at building and mentoring world-class engineering teams, always happy to "own the gap" between technology and user experience.

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.

I’m an Area Tech Lead at Grammarly. I have 12 years of experience building web-based applications that millions of users use. In my spare time, I contribute to open-source, write technical articles, give public talks, and serve on the program committee of fwdays conferences.

A full-stack developer and privacy-enthusiast that loves good UX, and to tinker on both personal and open-source projects - often both :)

Elixir, Vue.js, Gaming and Running

Aditi is a Solution Architect at @McKinsey & Company with 7 years of experience in software engineering, specializing in designing and building scalable, cloud-native applications. She brings strong backend expertise, with extensive hands-on experience in microservices, RESTful, and event-driven architectures. Pioneering an AI-driven SDLC, transforming traditional software development by embedding AI across frontend and backend engineering through spec-driven development practices. This approach replaces the conventional SDLC with an AI-first SDLC, enabling automated code generation and testing for frontend and backend systems, and accelerating delivery by up to 3×—establishing a new development paradigm Aditi specializes in leading cross-functional squads to deliver complex, high-value technology solutions across industries. She thrives in fast-paced environments where scalability, security, and collaboration are critical, drawing on practical experience across backend, frontend, and cloud technologies.

Elena is a Software Engineer at Sonar, which provides tooling around code quality and security. Her main project is a static code analyzer for JavaScript and TypeScript used by SonarQube, SonarCloud, and SonarLint. Elena focuses on the clean code and tries to ensure the precision of the developed analyzer.

Yevheniia is from Ukraine, she is a QA Manager at Wixm an Authorized ICAgile Instructor in Agile Testing and automated testing courses author. Her main focus is on building the test automation strategy and best practices for web and mobile applications testing at Wix. She believes in balanced test automation as a tool to support the development velocity, shares her knowledge at conferences and workshops and promotes collaboration between developers and QAs around test automation.

Dianing Yudono has over a decade of software engineering experience in different products, teams and cultures. She is currently at BCG Digital Ventures, a global company that invents, launches and scales disruptive businesses. Before that, she was at ThoughtWorks, a global software consultancy.

I'm Artur and I'm a Tech Lead at Zoa in Apps Platform team, which is mainly focused on Typescript, React and React Native ecosystem, providing tools, pipelines and libraries for other teams to build cross-platform applications.

Christian is an experienced, hands-on frontend developer with a history dating back to the days of table-based layouts and using background images for rounded corners. He's worked with clients of varying industries and sizes. He's been with Daily since early 2020, working on Daily Prebuilt, Daily’s ready-to-go embeddable solution for video calls of all sizes, and Daily React, Daily’s React library for building audio and video in React apps.