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!
Daniel Frey
Daniel Frey
Building FiveTimesFaster.com, The Netherlands
Daniel Frey is a Tech Lead and AI Architect specialized in building autonomous agent systems that bridge the gap between LLMs and real-world execution. As the founder of FiveTimesFaster, Daniel is a pioneer in the "Agentic OS" movement, leveraging frameworks like OpenClaw and LangGraph to build AI teams that autonomously manage complex engineering and sales workflows. Currently leading high-impact initiatives at Nationale-Nederlanden, Daniel combines 9+ years of full-stack expertise with a focus on agentic orchestration. He is a recognized voice in the AI community, exploring the future of human-AI collaboration through his podcast and hands-on implementation of self-improving agent loops that have already driven 40% performance gains in production environments.
Andrzej Fricze
Andrzej Fricze
The HEINEKEN Company, Poland
Experienced programmer and eloquent speaker. Andrzej has been at the forefront of the tech community, orchestrating countless meetups and conferences. With a passion for nurturing the next generation of tech enthusiasts, he's proudly mentored at both JavaScript and Clojure workshops. Beyond the realm of code, he's a dedicated musician and a fitness enthusiast who enjoys lifting. In his downtime, he's honing his vocal talents and always brainstorming innovative business ideas.
Ed Bentley
Ed Bentley
Fluke Games, UK
Frontend Developer working on indie games and open source.
Antony Bello
Antony Bello
Retool, USA
Software engineer, frontend at Retool. Works with React, Redux, TypeScript. Loves mac and cheese, tennis, and exploring.
Jan Peer Stöcklmair
Jan Peer Stöcklmair
Sentry, Austria
I’m a software engineer working at Sentry and Pebblebyte, where I focus on frontend, DevOps, and making sure observability is everywhere. When I’m not deep in code, you’ll probably find me kitesurfing, road biking, swimming, or hanging off a rock wall. Whether I’m debugging or chasing wind, I’m always looking for that perfect flow.
Brendon Co
Brendon Co
Standard Chartered, Singapore
Originally from Singapore. Brendon is an expert UI expert at Standard Chartered and published multiple books in amazon and leanpub. In his free time, he writes about Remix starterkit, Micro Frontend book and sell UI components.
Brendon Co
Brendon Co
Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore
Originally from Singapore. Brendon is an expert UI expert at Standard Chartered and published multiple books in amazon and leanpub. In his free time, he writes about Model Context Protocol server for PostgreSQL, Remix starterkit, Micro Frontend book and sell UI components.
Alex Ptakhin
Alex Ptakhin
Prestatech GmbH, Germany
Alex is a software engineer with technical and engineering management experience from startups to middle-sized and big-tech companies. Loves creating friendly and effective team processes.
Darrell Warde
Darrell Warde
Neo4j, UK
Darrell is a senior software engineer and the GraphQL team lead at Neo4j, where he primarily works with TypeScript and of course, GraphQL! After many years of building GraphQL services, he has brought his passion for the technology to the company to build a library which will enable users to quickly get up and running with GraphQL and Neo4j. Darrell joined Neo4j at the start of 2021 following 7 years working in the public sector, which started with an apprenticeship where he learnt how to develop software. Darrell enjoys staying active by going to the gym and cycling, and plays Brazilian samba drums!
Samuel Esogbue
Samuel Esogbue
Apex Motive, Nigeria
Samuel is a Generative AI Engineer with a strong desire to solve problems. He constantly works on developing new and creative AI solutions that push people's life & businesses forward. Motivated by his keen interests in technology and psychology, along with his dedication to doing excellent work, Samuel focuses on building AI solutions that improves people's lives by directly addressing economic issues. Being efficient and productive is extremely important to him, driving his goal to create powerful, leading AI solutions that bring about positive change.
Devesh Jadon
Devesh Jadon
Delivery Hero, Germany
Passionate about simplifying complex solutions.
Jonathan Wagner
Jonathan Wagner
Theodo UK, France
Tech lead and coach at Theodo UK. Passionate about improving developer experience and building web apps without frustrations (for both users and devs).
Austin Fahsl
Austin Fahsl
Nx, USA
Austin Fahsl is a senior engineer at Nx and a core maintainer of Lerna. With a background in enterprise web application development, his passion for building things is driven by a fascination for human psychology. Austin lives in Colorado and enjoys board games, craft beer, and live music.
Karol Przystalski
Karol Przystalski
Codete & Medtransfer, Poland
Obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science in 2015 at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. CTO and founder of Codete. Leading and mentoring teams at Codete. Working with Fortune 500 companies on data science projects. Built a research lab for machine learning methods and big data solutions at Codete. Gives speeches and trainings in data science with a focus on applied machine learning in German, Polish, and English. Used to be an O’Reilly trainer.
Witek Socha
Witek Socha
CKEditor, Poland
Currently working with the CKEditor 5 core team on the editor framework, its ecosystem, and developer experience. Ex-developer turned into a product person but still codes for fun and brain practice. Strong opinions weakly held, and often overruled by his two kids.
Sam Komesarook
Sam Komesarook
Arts & Engineering Composite, London, UK
Sam Komesarook is founder of The Arts & Engineering Composite
Cat Johnson
Cat Johnson
Khan Academy, USA
I am a Senior Frontend Engineer at Khan Academy and I’ve been working in the industry for over 6 years. During my day job I work mostly on React web components and focus on Accessible Technology. On my off hours I love talking about how to create more accessible and inclusive web applications and hosting a podcast discussing new technology creating positive social impact in our world today. I firmly believe technology can be used to create a more inclusive and equitable world as long as we keep it in check.
Michael Di Prisco
Michael Di Prisco
Jointly, Italy
A decade in the Development field, still trying to get my head around it. Full-Stack Developer with a strong experience in Back-End Development and passionate about all things JS.
Omar Diop
Omar Diop
Learnn, Italy
"Passionate Software Engineer with a strong background in technology and a desire to constantly learn and grow and share. Omar has always been fascinated by technology since a young age and aspired to turn his passion for programming into a career. At the same time, he has a strong passion for marketing, funnel optimization, product development, and business. He dedicates a portion of his time experimenting with new solutions in these areas on projects that interest him.
Vivek Vidyasagaran
Vivek Vidyasagaran
Synthesis School, USA
Vivek is a game developer and software engineer. He graduated with a Master’s in Entertainment Technology and has been designing and building kids’ educational games ever since. He is driven by a belief that games are the best way to make kids fall in love with learning.
David Witt
David Witt
Shopify, USA
David is a Developer Advocate at Shopify, and previously a tech lead for an ecommerce agency. He is new to Shopify, but brings ten years of ecommerce and software experience with him to help foster relationships with Shopify and the developers using the platform.
Ameer Sami
Ameer Sami
S&C Electric, USA
Ameer is a Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience. Behind the keyboard he is passionate about developer experience, design systems, React, and building cool stuff. AFK he loves to bake and pick up heavy circles.
Nikhil Chandrappa
Nikhil Chandrappa
Yugabyte, USA
Nikhil is a Software Engineer at Yugabyte. He is leading the efforts on YugabyteDB integrations with open source developer tools like GraphQL, Spring Data, R2DBC, and Kubernetes. He also works with the developer community on the adoption of Distributed SQL databases in cloud native applications. He has presented at major developer conferences, including Spring One Platform, PostgreSQL Conference, and Distributed SQL Conference. He is originally from Mysore, India, and has a master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University.