JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers
Explore personalities and their talks, workshops, videos, and articles. While we focus primarily on JavaScript and frameworks like React, Vue, Svelte, and Node, you may find experts on other fields on our Portal. To name a few – Testing, DevOps, Machine Learning, and many more!
Angel Rivera
CircleCI, USA
Angel started his career as an US Air Force Space Systems Operations specialist in Cape Canaveral AF Station where he realized his passion for technology and software development. He has extensive experience in the private, public and military sectors and his technical experience includes military/space lift operations, technical writing, software development, SRE/DevOPs engineering. He also has a wealth of experience in defense and federal sectors such as contracting, information systems security and management.
You can usually find him speaking at or organizing local tech meetups and hackathons where he enjoys engaging with developers.
Zoe Steinkamp
InfluxData, USA
My name is Zoe Steinkamp and I am a Developer Advocate for influxData. I was a front end software engineer for over 6 years before I moved into a developer advocate role. I have been with InfluxDB for over 3 years and i look forward to sharing my knowledge of the platform and databases. I enjoy learning about awesome new technologies and doing at home tech projects to help make my life as well as other peoples lives easier. My passions besides new technology include traveling and gardening.
Zach Leatherman
Netlify, USA
Zach is a builder for the web. He created Eleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator now full-time sponsored by Netlify. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 62 talks in eight different countries at events like Jamstack Conf, Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS.
Amy Bass
Docker, USA
As a youngster, I had an early interest in computers. I quickly learned to disassemble and reassemble my family's Tandy 1000 without much effort. This passion only grew as I got older. In college, I became very interested in helping to bridge the growing digital divide and started a student organization, Tech Serv, at Drexel University. After college, I started my career as a data analyst but quickly found a career in Product Management. Here, I was able to combine my love for technology with my passion for improving the lives of others. Since that time, I've been a product manager in a variety of industries including MarTech and HealthTech. Now at Docker, I hope to continue on my journey by improving the lives of developers and helping solve their daily challenges.
Alexandra Buckalew
GraphCMS, Germany
Alex is an experienced marketer and screenwriter with over 10 years of experience. A natural storyteller, Alex spends her free time writing novels and screenplays and is driven through a constant need to be constantly learning professionally and personally. Originally from Texas, she has lived in New York City, and now Berlin, Germany.
Serkan Ozal
Thundra, Turkey
A Computer Engineering MSc on Big Data and Cloud Computing with Hadoop and Hive at METU (Middle East Technical University).
Here is my summary:
* Big data and Cloud computing architect/researcher/developer
* Low-level Java and JVM researcher/developer/hacker
* AWS Technical and Business Consulting Partner
* "Off-Heap Storage" and "Bytecode Instrumentation" Ninja
* Oracle OpenSource Contributor
* PhD candidate about Indexing on Hadoop and Hive
* Always thinking on open-source project ideas
Antoine du Hamel
Transloadit, France
Antoine is a Software Engineer from France, working for Transloadit. His love for everything open source brought him to GitHub at an early age, and he has been a regular visitor and contributor ever since. He serves as a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, the esteemed governing body that oversees the popular runtime environment. When Antoine is not channeling his creative energy into technical projects, he enjoys playing the piano.
Oguzhan Ozdemir
Thundra, Turkey
Oguzhan is a person whose passion is learning. He is self-motivated about discovering his unknown unknowns and autodidactic to move forward in this path. His primary motivation is to keep his technical breadth at the highest level it can be. Because Oguzhan believes that in each particular field, there is something he will learn that he won't be able to grasp anywhere else.
In the past, Oguzhan dropped out of Nuclear Engineering to pursue his passion and enjoy what he does for a living. He mainly worked as a Backend Engineer and shifted toward the Cloud.
Oguzhan is currently working as an Infrastructure Engineer and is quite optimistic about his career. He is aiming for better, non-stop.
Greg MacWilliam
Shopify, USA
Greg is presently focused on web applications built using Ruby on Rails, VueJS, Webpack, and JavaScript. He is also experienced with HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, responsive design practices, and visualizing large data sets using SVG, Canvas, and major web mapping frameworks. He is also fluent with RESTful and GraphQL API design, Django, Rails, Node, and some WordPress experience.
Additional programming experience with iOS/Objective-C for iPhone, Flash/ActionScript3, and object-oriented design practices. Familiar with agile software development and SCRUM workflow; experienced with providing estimates.
Current side projects include EpoxyJS (data binding extension for Backbone), ConstellationJS (a grid-based geometry toolkit), and the HTML5/Django-based Lassie Constellation admin system.
Katarzyna Wojdalska
ec0lint, Poland
Katarzyna is the Co-founder and CEO of ec0lint - a tool for frontend developers that mitigates the carbon footprint of websites. On top of that, she works as a Project Manager in the nanotechnology company Nanores. Her focus lies on diamonds and vacuum sensors. Katarzyna enjoys cooking Asian food and visiting art exhibitions in her free time.
Eeva-Jonna 'Eevis' Panula
Futurice, Finland
Eevis is a software developer and accessibility specialist based in Finland. She loves sharing information about topics like accessibility, React and GraphQL, and is active in different communities aiming to increase equality in the tech field in Finland. When not coding, she explores the world around her with a kayak.
Simon Waterer
Sourcegraph, UK
Simon Waterer is a Customer Engineer at Sourcegraph. He has worked across a range of technologies including object and NoSQL databases, high performance computing and distributed platforms including Kubernetes and Mesos. Outside of technology, he likes most sports but especially cricket, rugby and F1. And loves spending time outdoors with his dog.
Darshita Chaturvedi
Atri Labs, USA
Darshita Chaturvedi is the Co-Founder & CEO of Atri Labs where she is leading the development of a new full-stack framework for web development.
She has five years of experience working in Machine Learning and Data Science fields in various capacities from Graduate Research Assistant at MIT (USA) to Quant Researcher at BlackRock, a US headquartered asset management firm. She completed her undergraduate education in Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India, and dropped out from graduate program in management at MIT Sloan to work on her startup full-time.
Her favorite past times are painting and learning art history.
Abdelrhman Adel
Rangle, Netherlands
Abdelrhman Adel is an Amsterdam-based Solution Architect at Rangle.io, helping clients build better software experiences using technologies such as Angular, React, and Typescript. Once a Petroleum Engineer, he switched career paths to follow his passion for technology and improving user experiences. When he’s not working, you can find him gaming or binge-watching a new TV series.
Chris Stavitsky
Sentry, USA
Chris has a background as a web developer. He previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at a company that used Sentry for error monitoring. Chris liked the product so much that he decided to come work for Sentry and make finding and fixing bugs easier for other developers.
Rob Sutter
Fauna, USA
I have woven application development into my entire career, from time in the U.S. Army and U.S. Government to stints with the Big Four, the world's largest cloud services provider, and smaller startups. I have started my own company – twice – once providing consulting services and most recently with WorkFone, a software as a service startup that provided virtual digital identities to government clients. I love to build in public with Go and all things serverless!
Robert Hostlowsky
Instana, Germany
Currently, Robert Hostlowsky is working as a developer, coach and systems engineer.
He published an online video course about developing a full-stack GraphQL application online-course.
He loves DevOps culture on modern cloud infrastructure, uses the latest state-of-the-art web technologies, and loves how it plays nicely together at minimum effort and cost.
He loves web technologies. Feeling being a part of the developer community he is co-organizing the JSCraftcamp, Munich.
Bob van Luijt
Weaviate, Netherlands
Bob is CEO and co-founder of SeMI Technologies, the business created around the open-source vector search engine Weaviate. Besides SeMI and Weaviate. Bob is a frequent speaker on the topics of open source, digital technology, software business, and creativity. He has spoken at around 100 events on the aforementioned topics in Europe, the US, and Russia.