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!

Stephan Schneider
Contentful, Germany
Stephan Schneider is a backend developer at Contentful. Since 2018 GraphQL is not just an interesting technology for him anymore when he started participating in the company's initial development of their first GraphQL API. He has not stepped back since and constantly plays with new ways to integrate pre-existing data into GraphQL.

Rita Castro
Volkswagen Digital Solutions | SDC Portugal, Portugal
Mentorship available
Software Engineer that used to build stand alone applications for data processing and mission planning systems turned into a Full-Stack Developer working with Test Driven Development, XP and Pair Programming. Also a Mom now.

Valentin Kononov
Unity, Finland
Valentin just started to work at Unity3d in Helsinki as Full-Stack Software Engineer. Before that he worked at Mapbox R&D center in Minsk, Belarus. Experienced in Typescript, SQL, .NET, Angular, React, NodeJS, NestJS and other interesting stuff in full stack software development. He loves modern web technical stack, but strongly believes in understanding of fundamental aspects of programming. He likes code writing, work in amazing and useful projects, which can bring something valuable to people. His spare time is mostly dedicated to his family, reading and writing, and also traveling is important part of his life!

Kristiyan Velkov
Docker, Bulgaria
Mentorship available
Tech Lead • Front-End Advocate • Mentor & Educator • Tech Blogger • Published Author • 100+ IT Certifications • 30K+ Followers • Docker Captain • Expert in React.js, Next.js, Angular, DevOps, Web Accessibility & Security
Kristiyan Velkov is a seasoned software developer and technical leader with more than 10 + years of expertise in JavaScript and open-source development. His comprehensive skill set includes: JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Angular, Vue.js, Next.js,DevOps,Web accessibility,Security and DevOps.
A lifelong learner, Kristiyan has earned over 100 IT certifications.
With experience at some of the world’s leading IT organizations, Kristiyan thrives as a technical lead, driving innovative projects and mentoring teams to achieve growth and excellence. His thought leadership has garnered a significant following:
- 30,000 LinkedIn connections
- 7,000 Medium subscribers
- 100,000+ monthly readers
- 4 IT books.

Nikola Mitrovic
Vega IT, Serbia
Experienced JavaScript Software Engineer with 7 years in the industry. More skilled in Front-end Development, with high level of experience in working with Micro Front-end architecture, designing projects as a set of standalone components that include their own interfaces, logic, and storage, developing mini-applications independently, and composing them all together in the browser with different integration techniques.
Passionate about web performance and ensuring the best possible User Experience of web applications.

Faris Aziz
Smallpdf, Switzerland
Mentorship available
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.

Renaldi Gondosubroto
SEEK, Australia
Mentorship available
Renaldi Gondosubroto is a Software Developer from Seek Limited, where he works on the backend of the home page which is accessed by all jobseekers who search for jobs on the site as well as the infrastructure which powers it. Previously he has worked as a .NET software developer for automobile companies and has been active within the research community; putting a lot of his research focus within IoT and virtual reality. Through his passion of developing software and contributing to the opensource community, Renaldi wants to encourage the innovation of new solutions to usher forward and promote a new era of innovations that can be used by everyone. Having spoken at 20+ events and conferences, he has also been active on the open source community for the past five years, building solutions on the cloud and sharing his experiences and projects.

Luis H. Ball Jr.
imgix, USA
Luis is a Senior Software Engineer at imgix, focusing on delivering the best images and video developer experience on the web. He’s passionate about open source and baseball (let’s go Bucs!). He's a defunct tech collector, amassing a now-useless pile of everything from eMate 400s to HD-DVD players.

Toni Petrina
Visma, Denmark
Tech lead at Visma e-conomic, developer at heart and frequent speaker at conferences, user groups and local events. Started in QBasic, went through C++ to C#, finally settled in...full-stack? He spends most of the time at the keyboard typing yet another demo or application. If you take his keyboard away from him, he will talk endlessly about code...and functional programming. Been coding for over a decade to know if something is a programming fad or not. And no, functional programming is not a fad at all. Strong proponent of Open Source and all things chocolate.

Michael Zion
MeteorOps, Israel
Helping startups outperform their competitors (using DevOps). Programming since the age of 12 (with breaks here and there, don’t worry). Operating high-scale systems since 18, and obsessed with DevOps since 20. Exploring new ways for startups to enjoy DevOps, and writing about it on my website. Occasionally playing guitar in jam sessions, and eating sandwiches in a different kind of jam sessions.

Pawel Sawicki
Workshops.de, Germany
Pawel Sawicki is a freelance consultant and lecturer with a focus on distributed systems, and related areas such as software security and software architecture, especially in the context of mobile applications.
On this way he discovered React and React Native several years ago and used them in a variety of professional projects for leading German companies, from small startups to large corporations.
Pawel always strives to share the practical knowledge he has acquired in a didactically valuable way for the benefit of his clients and students.

Sulagna Ghosh
StockEdge, India
I'm Sulagna Ghosh, a JavaScript engineer who loves working with React, performance optimization, web accessibility, and authentication. I enjoy solving tricky problems and fine-tuning rendering workflows to make web experiences as smooth as my morning coffee.
When I'm not coding, you'll find me sharing insights through tech talks, lively discussions, and blogs. I'm always learning—whether it's a new programming language or the secret to the perfect masala chai. Always up for a good brainstorming session, especially if it involves code and caffeine.

Tomasz Kania-Orzeł
Monterail, Poland
I am an experienced software and DevOps engineer, enjoying frontend technologies the most. With a demonstrated history in building software products in the frontend, backend, and mobile technologies. My favorite technologies are React.js, Node.js, and recently Vue 3.
Currently leading the team of 100+ developers
as a Head of Technology at Monterail.

Violina Popova
ClipMyHorse.TV, Bulgaria
With a passion for creating seamless cross-platform experiences, my journey in tech started not with programming, but as a consultant in the tech industry. The desire to build and innovate led to a shift in focus towards software development, particularly mobile app development, where the thrill of solving complex problems and crafting user-friendly applications became a calling.
Co-founding Frontend Queens was a natural extension of this journey, inspired by a commitment to inclusivity in tech. This community was born from the belief that everyone, especially women, should have the opportunity to thrive in technology. By fostering a supportive environment, we aim to empower women to break barriers and pursue fulfilling careers in this ever-evolving field.

Kevin Dorosh
Solo.io, USA
Kevin is currently leading the GraphQL engineering team at Solo.io. Formerly a big data infra admin at HubSpot, Kevin is passionate about the infrastructure space and giving to the community, with contributions to many open source projects such as Envoy, Flagger, and Gloo. Kevin enjoys working with customers and community users on real problems facing them today, and is excited to help bring organizations to Envoy, Istio, and a more modern, cloud-native, tech stack.

Riaz Virani
Find Niya Software, Canada
Riaz Virani has over a decade of experience in building products and engineering teams. He was most recently CTO at LoadUp Technologies, which topped out at 118 on the Inc 500 Fastest Growing privately-held companies in 2019. Prior to that, Riaz worked in web performance, machine learning, and consulting.







