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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

Benjamin Swerdlow took a break from his studies at UChicago, to go work as a Senior Backend Engineer for Apple, who recently took a break from Apple to build Freestyle. He's been building in the Open Source community since high school, and was a technical lead for the World Health Organization's COVID-19 App team.

Graham is the Co-founder and CEO of GrowthBook, the most popular open-source feature flagging and A/B testing platform. GrowthBook is backed by Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures. Before starting GrowthBook, Graham was the CTO of Education.com for 6 years. Graham is a three-time startup founder, including starting an international non-profit to increase access to communication in the developing world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. He has a degree in Physics from CMU.

Lena Reinhard (Website, LinkedIn) is an engineering leadership coach, mentor, and organizational developer supporting technology leaders in growing themselves and succeeding in the complexity of engineering organizations. Previously, Lena served as VP Engineering with CircleCI and Travis CI, and a SaaS startup co-founder & CEO, and has dedicated her career to helping leaders and their organizations excel in times of high change and challenging markets. She has worked with a broad variety of companies at all stages, from startups pre-founding and bootstrapped, scale-ups, to late-stage/pre-IPO and VC-funded ventures, to corporations and NGOs. Find her writing on leadership and more about her work at lenareinhard.com.

Jarred is a Technical Lead at ADB Safegate, where he leads the development of the Intelligent Apron suite of products, which are aimed to increase the performance and safety of airport operations, while lowering the environmental effect aviation has on the world. Originally from the US, he is now based in Malmö Sweden where he serves as a mentor to multiple teams across Europe, and is passionate about solving complex problems while teaching others along the way.

Tim Makin is a Software Engineering Manager at CDL with over 20 years of experience in driving innovation and delivering high-impact digital products. They currently lead 14 teams, guiding projects from conception to completion while fostering a culture of excellence. Before their current role, Tim spent six of those years as the founder of a digital agency, developing solutions for world-renowned organisations including the BBC, Tesco, IKEA, and Sage.

Amit Mandelbaum is a tech lead at AI21 labs, prior to joining AI21 labs Amit was an entrepreneur in the field of GenAI and a Director of AI at Nvidia. Amit is also an Angel investor in the field of AI and is a known keynote speaker and consultant on GenAI agents.

I’m Harsh Maheshwari, a Principal Engineer at Optum, UnitedHealth Group. I hold a Master’s in Computer Science and specialize in applied search technology, focusing on Full Stack AI/ML application. I’ve filed patents in this area and have previously created similar solutions for the fintech industry. My work revolves around advancing search methodologies and pioneering innovative frontend development.