JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Hi, I’m Daniel Jakobsen. I’m a full-stack staff engineer. Active in the javascript space - talking in meetups, blog posts. I enjoy bouldering, DIY projects & tinkering with AI.

Expert in AI-Powered Microservices and Cloud Performance Optimization in Fintech Solutions. A Senior Staff Engineer at Walmart, a speaker at IEEE and ICETAIA 2025, with a recent publication on Agentic AI in enterprise environments.

I'm a Performance Architect @ Wix Viewer. For the last 7 years, I’ve been a part of building the application that renders Wix websites With over 10 years of experience in software development, I started my career in networking and Linux but was always passionate about web development. In the last 3 years, I have been a part of the performance team, where we improve the performance of Wix websites, and make sure Wix websites are the fastest in the world. In my free time, you can find me working out at the park, playing basketball, and also working and maintaining my own NBA website.

Career at the intersection of technology and business. Experienced product commercialization manager. Tech Geek following evolution in the space from hardware, software and business models

I'm a computer scientist by education, a software developer by trade, and a serial technologist at heart. In short, my passion is solving technical problems. As a solutions architect at Tyk, I help companies design and architect API management platforms and digital transformation journeys.

I'm a Tech Lead working mainly with Node.js, React and AWS. I solve problems, sometimes by writing code, other times by talking to people.

James is on the Workers team @Cloudflare and a contributor to Node.js core. His contributions include features such as HTTP/2, the WHATWG URL implementation, and, most recently, an implementation of the QUIC protocol.

Adrian Herbez has over 20 years of experience in games, web development, and virtual worlds. He has worked at Linden Lab, at Sony (on Playstation Home), and at Together Labs. He was a co-founder at Jamwix, creators of the first feature-length VR movie (Banshee Chapter: Oculus Edition) and has presented work as part of the VR Village at SIGGRAPH 2016. He also taught Maya for years at the Academy of Art, and is the author of the "Maya Programming with Python Cookbook" published by Packt.

Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat and a Node.js Technical Steering Committee Member. Beth has been involved with the Node.js project since 2016, when she joined IBM in their Node.js Runtime Team. Now at Red Hat, she’s continuing her work around Node.js, including contributing to the Node.js project. Beth is an active member of the Node.js Release Working Group, who audit the content for and produce the Node.js releases. Her other focuses are the creation of resources and tooling to support Node.js deployments to cloud.

I've spent 17 years in software engineering, dedicating 12 of those to the development of security systems. Although this work was deeply valued, my true passion has always lain in game development. For the past 5 years, I've been immersing myself in this field - a passion I've been privileged to indulge while working at My.Games. I've contributed to the development of the popular video game, "Left To Survive," which boasts over 60 million installs and an impressive revenue of $120 million to date. Aside from my hands-on work, I've maintained active involvement in the wider tech community. My articles have been published on popular platforms such as Hackernoon.com, DZone.com, and Medium.com. I've also had the honor of serving as a judge for prestigious competitions like the Globee Awards, the CODiE Awards, and various hackathons.

Lead Frontend Developer at Sber, 11 years of making online banking web-apps and contributing to internal frontend community.

As Vultr's Developer Advocate, Walt Ribeiro helps create educational materials for developers and technologists including video/written how-to guides, product demos, reference materials, best practices, code samples, and training. Having been a broadcast engineer at Youtube Space LA, he understands online content and production and is excited to bring that energy to Vultr's growing community across all sites, meetups, and events.

Full Stack Developer at Shell, experienced in building SASS stacks, scalable and optimized cloud services.

Experienced Business Development Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Sales, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Event Management, Management, and Account Management. Strong business development professional with a Finance focused in Economics and African American History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Senior engineer leading accessibility at Discord. React.js core collaborator once upon a time.

Adron has a wide range of companies, programming, and database experience. This includes companies ranging from small startups to 200k plus person enterprises and the respective challenges of design and architecture for these companies. In programming, Adron is fluent in C#, JavaScript, and Go, with experience in F#, Java, C++, Erlang, COBOL, and others, for a truly polyglot perspective of language approaches and their technology stacks. But, I get super frustrated writing in the third person for various reasons. So I like to think of me as jovial, proactive, test & code, code & test, get things done well, software architect, engineer, code monkey, coder, and distributed systems advocate. I go by the title of “Coder, Messenger, Recon” as it seems to encompass what I do.

Frontend developer, data visualisation engineer, writer, and fan of simplicity (in code as in life). Her mind belongs to deep conversations and translation. Her heart belongs to snow and surf.

Joe Hart is a software engineer, international speaker, and occasional stand-up comedian (mostly at JavaScript conferences, but still). He builds joyful interfaces with React by day, and questionable side projects by night. Joe brings a mix of deep technical insight and sharp humour to the stage – because if you can’t laugh about state management, what’s the point?

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.

Hi there! I'm a developer and a trail runner, and I enjoy both coding and hitting the trails. When I'm not busy turning lines of code into beautiful and functional applications, you can find me running through the mountains and breathing in the fresh air. I'm a firm believer that a healthy mind and body lead to better coding, so I try to balance my love for technology with a love for the great outdoors. Just remember: if you can't find me at my desk, I'm probably out for a run! I have experience with Python/Django, JavaScript/Vue.js, and a little bit of Go. I'm also an active public speaker and open source contributor.

Keren is a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience in the industry. She holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and is passionate about React and learning new technologies. Keren volunteers as a program manager at Baot, a community that supports women in R&D in their professional growth. She instructs and inspires developers to write blogs in her tech blogging workshops. Keren has experience as a dev community leader and a co-organizer of meetups and events. And in her not-so-spare time, she studies psychology. Her hobbies include drawing, photography, and singing.

I've been working as a business and system analyst on a significant amount of projects in different industries: government services, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, energy, EDI, and fintech. And it grants me an outstanding possibility to improve both sides of the process: how it works from a business perspective and how it could be automated or digitalized with IT capabilities. No matter where I’m working, I passionately follow my value of trustful relationships. For me, that means honest feedback, business transparency, a strong brand personality and attentiveness to details.

Shivani Poddar is a Machine Learning Tech Lead for the Meeting Assistant team at Workplace, Facebook, leading the development of meeting assistants for making remote collaboration easier for work. Previously, Shivani built and launched the foundational machine learning and AI stack for Facebook Portal, spearheading product and engineering development across social graph technology for ML, deep personalization for a smarter calling experience. She was also the first ever student at Carnegie Mellon to be funded by the Amazon Alexa Prize, where she and her team built a social chatbot, eventually deployed to tens of thousands of users through Alexa. During her time at CMU she also pursued research in the field of Natural Language Generation, Reinforcement Learning for chatbots and multimodal machine learning. Outside of Work, Shivani has emerged as one of the leaders in talking about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Consumers as well as Enterprises. She has been a speaker at numerous conferences over the last 2 years covering topics such as – Diversity and Bias in AI, Future of Work, Immersive Multimodal Assistants. She is also a mentor for young aspirants looking to become the next innovators in the field, and regularly volunteers in resume building workshops, panels for hiring and Q&As on LinkedIn.

Software developer building on the web with TypeScript, React, Node.js, and more. Writer, YouTuber, and lifelong learner who enjoys sharing knowledge with others