JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Vishnu is a builder who loves creating things that make people say, “How did I live without this?” His work spans AI engineering, on-device AI, developer tools, web performance, data platforms, and consumer products used by millions. Over the years, he has built across the stack, from scalable backend systems and modern web applications to AI-powered experiences that bring advanced technology closer to everyday users. Equal parts engineer and product thinker, he is passionate about turning messy, complex challenges into simple experiences that just work. He enjoys sharing stories, lessons, and occasional scars collected while building products in the real world through conferences, communities, and meetups.

Brian Love is a software engineer, Google Developer Expert, and co-founder at Polaris, where he is building developer tools for a more performant and reliable internet. He enjoys learning, speaking, and writing about software and technology. Brian co-authored "Why Angular for the Enterprise" for O'Reilly. When not coding, Brian enjoys skiing, hiking, and being in the outdoors.

Raju Dandigam is an Engineering Manager and Staff Engineer with over 15 years of experience in web and frontend engineering, scalable application architecture, and AI-powered product development. He currently works at Navan, where he leads and builds large-scale web platforms used by millions of users. Raju is an active conference speaker, published technical author, and community contributor. He has spoken at international JavaScript and testing conferences, serves as a judge for global hackathons and industry awards, reviews technical books and papers, and mentors developers worldwide. He is also recognized as a Docker Captain and a Cypress Ambassador, reflecting his contributions to the developer and testing ecosystem. His interests include modern web architectures, frontend scalability, testing strategies, and practical applications of AI in software engineering.

Sawyer Bowerman is an AI Engineer and Developer Advocate on Red Hat’s AI team based in Boston, MA. He specializes in high-performance model serving and inference, focusing on scaling open-source ecosystems like vLLM and llm-d to make large language models more efficient and accessible for developers. He is dedicated to bridging the gap between raw model performance and real-world developer productivity through open-source innovation.

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.

Sachin Mamoru is an Associate Technical Lead at Gapstars, building AI/ML platforms for OKRA.ai. He's a Kim Cameron Award 2025 recipient, a speaker at EIC 2026 (Berlin) and the Internet Identity Workshop (Computer History Museum), and an IEEE-published researcher. His work spans production RAG pipelines, OAuth/OIDC identity systems, and full-stack AI applications — with a focus on real-world deployments in emerging markets. He holds an MSc in Advanced Software Engineering (Distinction) from the University of Westminster and an MBA (Merit) from the University of West London.