JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Trish Ta is a Staff Developer Shopify with over 9 years of experience working on web applications. She started her career in creating software for data visualization. She is currently working on front-end libraries that empower developers to build cool things on top of Shopify’s platform.

Co-Founder & COO at LambdaTest || SAAS || Continuous Testing Cloud.

Leandro Fernandez is an Engineering Manager at Meta, London, with 16 years of experience as an engineer/manager in big tech, like Meta, Uber and Dell Technologies. He has a successful track record of supporting high performing teams of software and machine learning engineers. Some of the cool projects that he launched in the past include Uber's Audio Recording and Record My Ride, and Meta's automated data removal infrastructure.

The scripted part: Experienced and results-driven Customer Success Manager with a proven track record of driving customer satisfaction, retention, and revenue growth. I am passionate about building strong relationships with customers and helping them achieve their goals based on outcomes-based thinking and maximizing the value they derive from products or services. Unscripted: I am an empath, product nerd, people nerd, and a consultant/coach. My background in business, marketing, tech, and SaaS, allows me to bring a lot of great ideas and discussion to the CSM table. One can often find me learning AI, metrics, psychology, and trying to continually answer the question, "what can CSMs do to help customers solve real problems while also seeing future value in a product or service?"

I build product marketing and sales enablement organizations at technical start-ups and scale ups. I have experience in cybersecurity, DevSecOps, computer networking and MarTech.

Vijay has been building software professionally for 20 years, focusing mostly on full-stack and backend development for the first half of his career before transitioning into data engineering and applied data science roles, and eventually into engineering leadership. Today at Demandbase he heads up two of the main application groups - supporting Account Based Experience and Advertising - as well as leading the Core and Shared Services platform team.

Cynthia Akiotu is a Cybersecurity Architect and Identity Specialist with expertise in IAM, data governance, and Zero Trust. She has led projects on securing AI-driven environments, identity risk, and insider threats. A certified Microsoft Identity & Access Administrator and Microsoft Certified: Information Security Administrator, Cynthia speaks at global events and writes on AI governance and security. She also leads community initiatives as Cyberhero Coach Cynthia, promoting digital safety.

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.

Dmitry is a Microsoft veteran, working for more than 13 years. He started as a Technical Evangelist, and in this role presented on numerous conferences, including twice being on stage with Steve Ballmer. He then worked for 2 years as Senior Software Engineer, helping big European companies to start pilot digital transformation projects based on AI and ML. As Cloud Developer Advocate, Dmitry focuses on creating educational content and working with academic and research institutions. He is also an Associate Professor at MIPT, HSE and MAI in Moscow, a big fan of functional programming and F#, and a maintainer/primary developer of mPyPl library. In his spare time, Dmitry explores Science Art and Technological Magic, as well as performs Chinese tea ceremonies. He can be reached at soshnikov.com.

Dipanjan (DJ) Sarkar is a Data Science Lead at Applied Materials, leading advanced analytics efforts around computer vision, natural language processing and deep learning. He is also a Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning. He has also been recently recognized as one of the Top Ten Data Scientists in India, 2020 by Analytics India Magazine & TechGig. Dipanjan has advised and worked with several startups as well as Fortune 500 companies like Intel and Open Source organizations like Red Hat (now IBM). He primarily works on leveraging data science, machine learning and deep learning to build large- scale intelligent systems and evangelizing data science to the community. Dipanjan is also a published author, having authored several books on R, Python, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning.

After working as a science teacher for a few years, Sylvana transitioned into software engineering as a means to provide a quality education to all learners. She began her career as an apprentice at Codecademy and is now a software engineer at the company. During her time at Codecademy, she has gained experience with React, Next.js, and Typescript and has led initiatives like the tech reading club and dev workshops.

Sofia leads end-to-end product teams building services and customer experiences in a distributed architecture. She cares deeply about creating environments where engineers can do their best work. Outside of work, she co-hosts Developers!, one of Sweden’s most popular software podcasts.

Bogdana is an Engineering Manager at Zoopla, where she leads teams in building scalable, high-impact technology solutions. Over the past nine years, she has grown from an eager engineering intern into a thoughtful leader passionate about people, process, and continuous improvement. Her career spans both fast-paced startups and large organizations, giving her a broad perspective on how teams thrive in different environments. Beyond her day-to-day work, Bogdana is dedicated to supporting the next generation of technologists. She has taught at coding bootcamps and apprenticeships, guided students in launching their careers, and was an instructor for Code First Girls. Driven by curiosity and a focus on growth, Bogdana helps engineers find opportunities for learning and innovation in the fast-moving world of tech.

Backend Software Engineer for +10 years in industries such as telco, online betting, and financing, embraced the passion for leading and caring for people 3 years ago, being now at OLX Group as Engineering Manager.

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.

Jen Person is a developer advocate for Squid Cloud, an enterprise-grade backend-as-a-service that connects to and secures any API or data source. With nearly a decade of experience in developer products, Jen has extensive experience connecting with developers through talks, blogs, events, social media, and videos. She is passionate about creating the best development experiences so devs can focus on creating the best applications.

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

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.

James is Co-Founder and CEO of ElectricSQL. Prior to founding Electric, he co-founded the Post Urban venture builder and was co-founder and CTO of synthetic data company Hazy.

I co-founded Semble after witnessing the challenges of a fragmented healthcare system first-hand. Driven by a desire to create meaningful change, I joined forces with my fellow tech entrepreneur and friend, Christoph Lippuner, who had also seen the impact of disconnected care. Leveraging our experience as tech entrepreneurs who had successfully exited their first start-up, we collaborated closely with doctors and healthcare staff to design an interoperable, all-in-one clinical system that truly meets their needs and enables them to amplify their impact. Today, Semble supports thousands of healthcare professionals across more than 77 specialities, helping to improve care for over 8 million patients.

Self-learner and passionated about web development since the age of 15, I have a strong background in frontend development and especially with Vue.js and the Jamstack.

Nancy Du is an Associate Director of Digital Strategy at Rangle.io and an experienced web developer. She’s passionate about all things related to user experience on the web, with a particular focus on React, headless CMS, and UI architecture.

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.

Abe is a Developer Advocate at Shopify focused on bringing the next generation of ecommerce to developers. Previously he spent 9 years working at Google on Firebase/Cloud where he focused on JavaScript/Typescript.