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!
Vadym Kukhtin
Vadym Kukhtin
Delivery Hero, Germany
Passionate about improving testing practices and supporting projects to improve its quality.
Anton Nemtsev
Anton Nemtsev
Datasnipper, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Noord-Holland
- 24 years of frontend development. I did see Browser Wars. And mammoths. - Independent developer for 16 years. Sold out to corporations. - Jack of all trades, master of none. More of the last part. - Founder and chief-editor of the Frontender Magazine. Failed miserably. - Speaker at international and local conferences. The further the local. - UA Web Challenge expert. Ex. - Head of the frontend department of the Ukraine online university "Projector". Ex. - Magical talking bear prostitute.
Eve Porcello
Eve Porcello
Moon Highway, USA
Eve Porcello is a software engineer, author, educator, and co-founder of Moon Highway, a web development training company. She creates accessible coding education content, has authored books on React and GraphQL, and is a frequent tech conference speaker.
Kat Kmiotek
Kat Kmiotek
Zoopla, Scotland
Kat works as Quality Engineer at Zoopla. Tried lots of paths: fine arts, comparative literature, social psychology and cognitive science studies before discovering the most enjoyable so far tech path. Kat solves automation testing challenges at work and jigsaw after work. Lives in Scotland.
Brielle Harrison
Brielle Harrison
PayPal, USA
GraphQL Technical Steering Committee, Principal Software Engineering Manager at PayPal.
Gal Bashan
Gal Bashan
Epsagon, Israel
Gal is the Director of Engineering at Epsagon. Gal has a background in cyber-security, with experience in reverse engineering, networks analysis, and was part of an army elite intelligence-unit before joining Epsagon.
Joban Singh
Joban Singh
Microsoft, India
Hey, I am Joban, and I am currently working as a software engineer at Microsoft Azure. I have been developing planet-scale backend services for the past 2 years and would like to share my experience with Microsoft Orleans Framework, we have been using at Microsoft Teams.
Nick Hehr
Nick Hehr
Viam Robotics, USA
Nick is an empathetic community member, full-stack developer, avid climber and cyclist. He is currently a Senior Developer Advocate at Viam where he helps people build and manage their hardware projects from anywhere in the world. He is an invited expert with TC53 to help shape the future of JS on things. In his free time, he tinkers with home automation and robots built with JavaScript. His mustache is a figment of your imagination.
Noa Goldman
Noa Goldman
Wix, Israel
Product Manager at heart. Noa’s forte is creating products specially made for engineers and tech-savvy geeks. With her strong technical background as a former software engineer, her main passion is to simplify complicated technological pains into intuitive solutions and easy-to-use products that anyone can understand and use. She is currently the Lead Product Manager for the Wix CLI. She is a public speaking enthusiast and won't miss an opportunity to present her products in front of an audience.
Jeff Schnitter
Jeff Schnitter
Cortex, USA
Jeff Schnitter is a Solution Architect at Cortex. He has spent the majority of his career working in build and release engineering, development pipeline automation, developer experience and developer productivity. Prior to joining Cortex, he had stints at IBM, PeopleSoft/Oracle and Workday.
Olga Trofimova
Olga Trofimova
Splicky, Germany
As a QA Engineer and Enthusiast, Olga loves to use modern and practical approaches to improve product quality. She believes that AI will never replace human work, but could help to improve the quality of testing and reduce efforts for a manual one.
Dieter Flick
Dieter Flick
DataStax, Germany
Dieter is a seasoned Solution Engineer with over 20 years of experience in developing and optimising applications across various industries. With a strong background in software development, he deeply understands the challenges and needs of developers and clients alike. At DataStax, Dieter empowers his clients by using advanced data technologies and best practices to implement generative AI applications, helping them accelerate development cycles and deliver cutting-edge solutions. Passionate about developer empowerment, he provides tools and technologies that catalyse innovation and efficiency.
Fabrizio Picca
Fabrizio Picca
Commerce layer, Italy
Java developer, Software Architect and Enterprise Commerce Expert. Dad of one soon to be two, loves music, photography, cooking and running.
Evan Purkhiser
Evan Purkhiser
Sentry, USA
I am a software engineer who is passionate about building high-quality systems, tools, and applications. I am continually striving for the feeling of having built something I’m proud of, something I know that I didn’t take shortcuts on, and something worth sharing. I also have a deep appreciation for modern design aesthetics and robust interaction design. The melding of form and function is my holy grail.
Oli Bates
Oli Bates
Cleo, UK
Oli is currently a Frontend Engineer & Tech Lead at Cleo working across the mobile (React Native) & web (React) products. He sits within the savings squad whose mission is to help Cleo users build a safety net of savings.
Graham McNicoll
Graham McNicoll
GrowthBook, USA
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.
Matthew Salmon
Matthew Salmon
Snyk, Romania
Engineer Graduate, Software testing ISTQB certified and professional experience as a Software Developer. Current Solutions Engineer as Snyk.
Oleksandr Tryshchenko
Oleksandr Tryshchenko
Personio, Netherlands
Oleksandr Tryshchenko - Senior Engineering Manager @ Personio He has experience with micro-frontends across three SaaS companies. Initiated and led the migration of FreshBooks from a monolithic UI to a micro-frontends architecture. Currently, he serves as a Senior Engineering Manager at Personio, where he leads the efforts to migrate the entire organization, which encompasses over 130 micro-frontends, to a new design system.
Daniel Espino García
Daniel Espino García
Mattermost, Spain
Fullstack Software Design Engineer at Mattermost. He has helped with the re-architecturing of the new version of the mobile app, written in React Native. Confident with React, React Native and Go, and always happy to learn new things. Fun fact: studying psychology for fun.
Marco Cedaro
Marco Cedaro
Storio Group, UK
Webmaster before it was cool, pixel pusher, javascript-something, conference organiser, father of two, but mostly known for yelling at clouds.
Benjamin Swerdlow
Benjamin Swerdlow
Freestyle, USA
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.
Richard Moss
Richard Moss
Deventures, UK
An avid technologist, Richard has worked on a variety of projects with a diverse range of people, crossing technologies, languages, and continents. With a particular focus on the front end space, he is currently working across teams to help build and develop the tech function at Sainsbury’s. Passionate about teaching and sharing, he’s also a co-organizer of JavaScript London and was previously a senior coach at React GraphQL Academy helping professional devs take their skills to the next level.
Chris Stavitsky
Chris Stavitsky
Sentry, USA
Chris has a background as a web developer. He previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at a company that used Sentry for error monitoring. Chris liked the product so much that he decided to come work for Sentry and make finding and fixing bugs easier for other developers.
Tom Occhino
Tom Occhino
Vercel, USA
Tom is the Chief Product Officer at Vercel leading Engineering, Product, and Design. Previously he spent over 12 years at Facebook where he led development of the company’s core JavaScript Infra, shaped its open source program, and was responsible for the creation and development of React and React Native. He enjoys traveling, dance music, fancy cocktails, and simple food.