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!

Ilia Chernetskii
Evolution, Tallinn, Estonia
Ilia has been working as a Web Developer since 2008 and has rich experience in creating complex web applications and writing reliable client and server-side application logic in JavaScript. He worked both in a large corporation and in a small company, where he realized how to make decisions, take responsibility and manage a team. Created his own startup, which he successfully sold. Passionate about computer science, mathematics and finding answers to challenging questions. He always has high demands for the quality of his own code and does not compromise in terms of the logic and speed of the code. He loves minimalism in code, design, and life.

Clint Cameron
Sonar, USA
Clint Cameron is a Product Marketing Manager at Sonar, a leader in software static analysis solutions. He joined Sonar in 2018 and enjoys passionately and transparently promoting the value of SonarSource tools to developers at all experience levels. Previous to Sonar, he has held roles in product and project management, consulting, sales operations and engineering.

Adam Jahr
Vue Mastery, USA
Adam Jahr is the co-founder of Vue Mastery, the ultimate learning resource for Vue developers and the biggest financial backer of the Vue framework. As an e-learning educator, he has taught hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide and teaches live at conferences across the globe. Adam is a proud Vue.js Community Partner. When he isn't teaching Vue, he enjoys creating interactive art installations.

Chinmay Gaikwad
Epsagon, USA
Chinmay is a Technical Evangelist at Epsagon with experience in data center and cloud technologies. Previously, he worked at companies such as Intel, IBM and early-stage startups. Chinmay has an MS in Computer Science from Columbia University and an MBA from UC Berkeley. In his free time, he loves traveling and exploring restaurants.

Anna Filipyonok
Senior Marketing Manager, Georgia
Anna is a visionary, performance-driven marketing professional with a decade of experience building and leading dynamic marketing teams at technology companies.
Anna holds a steadfast belief that the evolution of technology paves the way for societal progress and reinforces the essence of humanitarian ideals. Skilled in harnessing the power of artificial intelligence in marketing, she sees it as a key to enhancing outcomes while streamlining resources and efforts.
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Alexandra Klimenko
Soft Skills Lab, Armenia
As the Founder and CEO of an edtech startup, I combine my passion for education with my product management experience to create innovative learning solutions that improve soft skills development. Our startup provides learners with engaging tools and resources to practice and master essential soft skills.
With a focus on continuous innovation, we're dedicated to transforming the way learners acquire and develop soft skills. Our approach is grounded in the latest research and tailored to meet the needs of our diverse learners. I'm excited to be leading a team that is making a real impact in the edtech industry.
If you're interested in learning more about our startup or connecting with me, please feel free to reach out. I'm passionate about education and excited to collaborate with others who share my vision for a better future of learning.

Wowa Effect
Music producer, Live techno performer, Germany
Wowa Effect aka Wowa Barssukov revives the art of creating music with knowledge and analog instruments. His unique tracks originate from a combination of retro synthesizers, drum machines, and samplers. He transcends mood into music, no exact recreation possible when playing live; all sounds originated by hand. His debut performances were underground raves and house parties in 2018.
His musical knowledge is based on classical Russian music education. Growing up in Siberia in the ’90s, his childhood was filled with communism, the sense of upheaval, and the upcoming of an underground raver scene. He started his electronic music journey under the name ‘Limpfate’ in 2017 first by creating his tracks with Ableton Live, until growing bored of the unengaging production. He then discovered analog synthesizers and drum machines, which shaped the sound of the electronic music scene in the ’90s, and spent countless hours on mastering the complex devices.
This art of performing allows Wowa to explore the vast horizon of electronic music. Therefore his sounds vary from ecstatic electro over the groovy house to deep techno. His tracks take the listeners on journeys through the unknown, full of surprising details.
When watching Wowa perform, you will notice a set of blinking lights, cables, and his straight face. When Wowa plays, it’s without exception, live.
Wowa now lives in Berlin, close to the pulse of the original German techno scene with its renowned Berghain.

Robin Marx
Akamai Technologies, Belgium
dr. Robin Marx is a Web Performance Expert at Akamai Technologies. He focuses on the performance and workings of modern Web protocols like HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and QUIC and has been a contributor in the IETF QUIC working group for multiple years.
Robin often talks about web performance at international conferences, making the complex situations more insightful to the wider public. On the weekends, he likes to hit other people with longswords.

Michael Poteat
Volley Inc, USA
Located in the vibrant city of San Francisco, Mike Poteat is a committed technical leader, skilled software engineer, and approachable people manager. His areas of interest are wide-ranging and encompass programming, type theory, pure mathematics, and more.
In the open-source world, Mike has had the opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects. One of these, hkt-toolbelt, applies higher-kinded types to TypeScript in an attempt to expand its functionality. Additionally, he's worked on spellbound, an agent-based LLM-powered VS Code extension that aims to enhance the usability of the platform.
Currently, Mike finds himself immersed in the voice AI industry at a startup backed by Y Combinator. He's part of a team working on the front lines of artificial intelligence, continually learning and evolving their approach to create cutting-edge solutions.
Away from his day job, Mike takes time to reflect and share his experiences on his blog, code.lol. He delves into topics around machine learning, programming, and other tech-related subjects, hoping that his musings might offer value to others exploring these fields.

Shaun Evening
Chromatic, Canada
I'm a seasoned software developer with a passion for creating engaging developer experiences. As a Developer Experience Engineer at Chromatic, I'm dedicated to improving integrations in the Storybook ecosystem, making it easier for developers to build high-quality UIs with confidence.
In addition to my technical expertise, I'm an advocate for education and empowering developers to reach their full potential. When I'm not coding, you can find me jamming on my bass or spending quality time with my Great Danes, Zola and Noodles.

Javier Alcaide Pérez
Bluetab Solutions, Spain
Javier Alcaide is a mathematician and software developer focused on data science and machine learning. His professional career is based on the use of advanced analytics and big data techniques within the financial sector. His current role is the design and construction of AI models and the analysis of data using ETL processing with Big Data technologies.

Phil Hawksworth
Deno, UK
Phil is Head of Developer Relations at Deno.
With a passion for browser technologies, and the empowering properties of the web, he loves seeking out ingenuity and simplicity, especially in places where over-engineering is common. After 25 years of building web applications for companies such as Google, Apple, Nike, R/GA, and The London Stock Exchange, Phil has worked to challenge traditional technical architectures in favour of simplicity and effectiveness. Phil is co-author of “Modern Web Development on the Jamstack” (O’Reilly, 2019).

David Chicaiza
Ataccama, Czech Republic
David Chicaiza is a senior front-end engineer from Bogotá, Colombia, and a React, NodeJS, and TypeScript enthusiast. He is currently based in Prague, creating data management solutions at Ataccama. David brings a blend of technical skills and public engagement to his role as an MC. When he's not working on software solutions, you might find him making music, playing chess, or traveling.