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!

Syed Kadar Ansari Syed Ahamed
Marktplaats, Netherlands
Syed Kadar Ansari is an Engineering Manager leading Growth Marketing Technology engineering, working at the intersection of engineering, data, product, and business teams. He focuses on scaling practical AI adoption across engineering workflows, helping teams improve delivery, collaboration, and decision-making in the AI era. Syed is also the author of a book on Amazon Bedrock and generative AI applications, where he explores how teams can build, integrate, and scale AI-powered solutions in real-world environments.

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.

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!

Pawel Sawicki
TuneTrain.ai, 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.

Austin Shelby
Freelance software engineer, Finland, Helsinki
I am a freelance software engineer, instructor, and public speaker with over half a decade of hands-on experience in the entire software development process.

Sophie Au
Donut, Germany
Sophie is a software developer at Donut where she champions testing and accessibility. And ensures there's a steady supply of office donuts.

Brett Beutell
Fiberplane, Amsterdam
Engineering Lead at Fiberplane, working on devtools for humans and agents.

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.

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.

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.

Simon de Lang
Info Support, Netherlands
I'm a lead developer and open source fanatic working at Info Support. I love everything related to testing and test quality and I am one of the co-founders of the mutation testing framework 'Stryker'.

Julian Burr
Sonar, Brisbane, Australia
Senior Developer from Germany with over 15 years of experience building web apps and leading frontend teams, currently living and working down under in Australia. Pragmatic perfectionist, always looking for opportunities to learn and grow.

Vinicios Neves
Wellhub, Portugal
Mentorship available
Vinicios Neves is a senior software engineer and educator passionate about building inclusive, performant, and accessible experiences on the web. With over a decade of experience, he helps teams ship React applications that scale — in code quality and in impact. Outside of coding, he shares insights on architecture, testing, and accessibility through talks, articles, and hands-on courses. Currently based in Portugal, he believes the best code is the one everyone can use.

Niya Panamdanam
Healthie, Canada
Niya is a Software Engineer at Healthie, primarily working on the front end. She is passionate about user experience, performance, the cool shit you can do with javascript, and a good cup of coffee. If she is not coding, you can find her binging anime or reading manga.

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.

Karol Kozer
intive, Poland
A graduate of the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer. He has been working in the industry for several years, developing large commercial projects and developing solutions for key clients. Front-end is his hobby and passion.

Mauro Bartolomeoli
Doubleloop S.r.l., Italy
Passionate about web development for a long time, I have been involved in open source for the companies I worked for with a lot of satisfaction. Always curious to learn new things, not limited to typing code on a keyboard. I am actually looking for better ways to design and model software, as well as working in teams.

Anton Kazakov
casavi, Germany, Munich
Mentorship available
Anton is the Director of Engineering at casavi. He's built and scaled teams, shaped tech organisations in the SaaS and B2C worlds. He has a passion for systemic approaches and helping people thrive and grow. He mentors other tech leaders helping their leadership journey go more quickly and smoothly. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking, trail running, and family time.

Tsvetelina Obretenova
Product Design Manager, Netherlands
Tsvetelina is an experienced design leader with a decade in the tech industry, specializing in Design Systems and driving quality designs with measurable business impact. She is passionate about achieving the delicate balance between people, business objectives, and user-centric design, all while fostering a supportive yet challenging environment for growth and innovation. Beyond work, her fascination with space fuels her curiosity and creativity in both professional and personal pursuits. She sees it as an inspiring visual metaphor for the boundless potential of our human abilities.

Saravana Srinivasan
Red Hat, India
Saravana Srinivasan is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat and contributing to Serverless Workflow toolings and Kie community. He is an Open source enthusiast and a trainer. He works on various Javascript tech stacks and also enjoys exploring new technologies.



