JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

I've been working as a business and system analyst on a significant amount of projects in different industries: government services, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, energy, EDI, and fintech. And it grants me an outstanding possibility to improve both sides of the process: how it works from a business perspective and how it could be automated or digitalized with IT capabilities. No matter where I’m working, I passionately follow my value of trustful relationships. For me, that means honest feedback, business transparency, a strong brand personality and attentiveness to details.

Wesley Fuchter is Director of Software Engineering at Modus Create, where he spends his time turning AI coding tool experiments into organization-wide practice. After leading a structured A/B experiment that demonstrated a 40% reduction in development time, his focus shifted to the harder challenge: getting a full engineering team to actually leverage agentic coding. His team built the knowledge-sharing systems, workshops, and practical resource libraries that are driving the shift. With 14+ years in cloud architecture, enterprise modernization, and engineering leadership across healthcare, fintech, and Fortune 100 organizations, Wesley brings a practitioner's perspective, including what didn't work. He holds the AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification and has previously spoken at worldwide tech conferences.

Senior Front End Developer @Shopify

Luke is the co-founder of Gazelle, an all-in-one business automation solution for piano technicians. He founded and bootstrapped the company in 2015, helping piano technicians around the world grow their businesses. Gazelle has customers in over 30 countries and is translated into 11 languages.

Juliette MacPhail is a Product Manager at mabl, where she spends her time working on a low-code platform for simplifying test automation and helping teams ship high-quality software. She’s passionate about understanding core challenges in the test automation space and enabling the transition to quality engineering. As an active member of mabl’s DEI committee, she spends her spare time on initiatives related to accessibility, inclusivity, and mental health in the workplace.

Jenn Creighton is a senior software engineer at Netflix. She hosts Single Threaded Podcast. Organizer of Women of React 2020 conference & useReact.NYC meetup. Jenn lives in New York with her two cats and maintains a Home for Abandoned Succulents, Mismanaged Plants and Otherwise Ailing Flora. You can find her online - [@gurlcode](https://twitter.com/gurlcode).

Simon Zhong is a Sales Engineer at Sentry with almost 10 years of experience in enterprise software. He attended the University of Edinburgh and is a graduate of University of California, Davis in Computer Science. He is an American born Chinese (ABC) who is a native English speaker with conversational proficiency in Cantonese.

Senior Software Engineer and consultant in Tektit Consulting. IT trainer at Infoshare Academy. Previously worked on Jira Cloud and Atlassian Forge. He talks and records stuff on Front-end and WebDevelopment related stuff.

Neil Manvar is an engineer dedicated to helping developers ship quality code quickly. In his free time, you can find him cycling, snowboarding, or cuddling with his dog. He currently works as a Solutions Engineering Manager at Sentry, an Application Monitoring software company that helps software teams discover, triage, and optimize the performance of their code.

Ava Wroten has been building ambitious EmberJS apps for over eight years. She's built health education software at Eyemaginations (now called Rendia), banking and account opening software at Q2, budgeting software for K-12 educators at Allovue, and now she is connecting students to employers at SkillsEngine. With a passion for frontend web apps, Ava is excited for the future of the web as a platform to deliver innovation that betters people's everyday lives.

Nouha is the Developer Experience Manager at Prismic. She currently manages a team of developer experience engineers, and spending a lot of time on recruiting and growing her team. This year she'll recruit over 15 people to join her team. She'll share some advice for those of you preparing for technical interviews, and will be able to describe what is a Developer Experience Engineer, a Developer Relations Engineer, a Dev Blogger, a Dev Streamer.

DevRel & Node.js core collaborator

Currently, building applications to optimize the creation process for Netflix’s movies and TV series - from planning and production to launch, and promotion. Frontend Engineer with 6+ years of experience. Master of engineering degree. Experienced in leading teams, collaborating with stakeholders, mentoring, interviewing, and onboarding new hires. Passionate about learning new technologies and following the latest trends in web development. Worked for both product (Netflix, Atlassian) and service companies.

Liang Gong works at Meta on building and optimizing web and developer infrastructure, with a focus on improving performance, memory efficiency, reliability, and user engagement. He is the creator of the open-source project MemLab and holds a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley, where his research was in the area of programming languages, software engineering, and JavaScript program analysis.

Richard is a Senior Software Engineer at Sentry on the Issues team, where his recent projects include redesigning the Issues UI and creating LLM-based Issue Detection. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, skiing, and being disappointed in the Ferrari F1 team.

Todd Schiller is co-founder and CEO of PixieBrix. He’s spent the past 15 years building AI, data science, and software engineering tools for large enterprises and hedge funds. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

I currently work at ByteDance as an Engineering Lead for E-Commerce payments system software driving the business of TikTokShop product in the US. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Masters degree and Vellore Institute of Technology with a Bachelor's degree. I’m a seasoned Silicon Valley professional in the Payments domain with proven engineering expertise for 10+ years. I pioneered the Software Engineering marvel resulting in the increase of user count of products by about 800 times in less than 6 months, generating kick-start revenue of $120k per week during 0 to 1 product growth, tripling the revenue from $5 billion to $14 billion in less than 5 years by getting over the plateau growth, for some of the prominent products in the world like iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, AWS Amplify, Amazon Alexa mobile app, TikTok shop and Oracle backend server supercluster. The by-products of these business results are multifold improvement in Engineering productivity and grooming myriad software professionals for world class companies like Apple, Amazon, Oracle, SanDisk.

m4dz is a curious animal. Former Frontend Dev, Devtools enthusiast, he has made the Developer eXperience (DX) his cherished topic. All the technologies are under his radar to get things ever simpler. His moto: "Developers are users just like you." As a life-long dreamer his favorite book will ever remains "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".

Weslley Araújo is a MySQL2 maintainer and the creator of Poku. He builds and maintains widely adopted supply-chain dependencies in the JavaScript open-source ecosystem. Recognized as a Microsoft MVP, he focuses on developing for developers, sharing knowledge, speaking at events, and inspiring others.

Dr. Nikita Golovko is a seasoned Solution Architect with over 16 years of experience in designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective software architectures for industrial and business-critical systems. With a strong academic background and research in machine learning, he bridges the gap between advanced AI technologies and real-world applications on the shop floor. Nikita has led full project lifecycles—from requirements and architecture design to deployment—ensuring compliance with security and industry standards. He is known for translating business needs into robust architectures and aligning cross-functional teams. Passionate about innovation and sustainability, he focuses on applying AI, IoT, and edge computing to drive continuous improvement in industrial environments.

Akshay Ranganath is a Solution Architect at Cloudinary responsible for bringing customers on-board, helping them create work-flow for media management and media delivery. While not working, you'll find him holding camera and indulging in some photography.

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. WomenInTech Mentor helping women break into the tech field with expert mentoring advice and support.

Gabriel is a Node.js core collaborator, TSC member emeritus, and a member of the Node API working group with a passion for improving performance. Formerly of Nokia, Intel, and SpaceX, currently at Auction.com.

Senior Software Engineer at CureApp inc, & CTO at RENDEZ-VOUS.