JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Full-Stack developer with a passion for GraphQL, JS/TS, and A11y; as well as a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Power Platform Developer, and Azure Administrator.

I'm a Lead Software Engineer. I have a master degree in applied mathematics and more than 10 years of experience in IT. Worked with different back-end and front-end technologies. Now I work with React and Redux, and I like them a lot. I like to share my knowledge, so I conduct programming courses (JavaScript), write articles and participate in different events.

Co-Founder and CTO of voize. Loves to build products that make people's lives easier.

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.

Asaf is Lorem Ipsum Engineer at Descope (he will explain the job title during the workshop). Asaf enjoys solving complex problems, working with people, staring up at the stars, and not taking himself too seriously.

I am a seasoned developer and architect with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, specializing in high-scale frontend development. Over the past decade, my career has been focused on empowering various startups by enhancing their frontend capabilities, with a particular emphasis on React and Vue technologies. My professional journey includes significant contributions to companies like Cybereason, Slice, Plank, Axonius, and Lifion, across diverse locations such as Tel Aviv, New York, and Amsterdam. Additionally, I have shared my insights and experiences at prominent industry events, including speaking engagements at React Summit and other JavaScript conferences throughout Europe. Currently, I lead SquadX, a small but highly focused team of frontend specialists. Our mission is to assist startups in boosting their frontend operations to new heights of efficiency and effectiveness.

Leon Malisov is a Developer Advocate at Zencoder. A lifelong educator with a background in software engineering, Leon has designed STEM and AI learning programs with the DoD’s Chief Digital & AI Office, built interactive customer education programs from the ground up, and taught hundreds of students to code through his tutoring and community work.

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

HT Sahin leads engineering teams that power global retail and logistics and still finds time to obsess over hands-on engineering problems, product design, and experiments.

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

Diana is a Site Reliability Engineer at Elastic. She focuses on Observability. Her passions revolve around serverless, machine learning and AI.

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.

I'm creator of the web software and design system at insurtech company, and teaching web development basics for tech-savvy people without access to digital education at non-profit coding school based in Berlin.

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.

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.

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.

Jonida Mersinllari is a Technical Lead at Consentmo, with over 11 years of experience in software engineering, leading the development of privacy and consent management solutions used globally. She specializes in translating complex regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA, and TCF into scalable, high-performance systems. With a strong background in software architecture and engineering leadership, she has extensive experience building and scaling teams, defining technical strategy, and delivering production-ready solutions in fast-paced environments. Jonida is particularly interested in how AI is reshaping software development, from engineering workflows to hiring and team dynamics, and brings hands-on experience in applying these changes within real-world teams.

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.

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.

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.

Legare Kerrison is an Open Source Engineer and Developer Advocate on Red Hat's AI team. She focuses on open source tools for building and deploying AI. Currently, she works with projects like vLLM and Podman desktop. She aims to make technical complexity digestible. She loves matcha and the outdoors. Based in Boston.

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