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!

Rodrigo Donini
Toptal, Spain
Rodrigo is a focused developer who produces digital projects for agencies around the world. He has 20 years of experience using various methodologies and tech in most web and mobile projects. He has a strong knowledge base of the WordPress world and is very engaged with the community: building custom themes, plugins, and core customizations. He specializes in WordPress, developing for the front-end back-end and in managing digital projects.

Dario Piotrowicz
Cloudflare, UK
Dario is a Systems Engineer working at Cloudflare, mainly focused on improving the developer experience for applications being built using JavaScript frameworks. This requires him to work with different tooling and teams in the JavaScript ecosystem, ranging from full-stack frameworks, to bundlers and dev servers, to the Cloudflare developer platform utilities. His goal being to enable developers to take full advantage of the advanced Cloudflare platform while being able to use their preferred technologies.

Filip Voska
Infinum, Croatia
Filip graduated from Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb in 2017 and has started his careers at Infinum as JavaScript Engineer. Over the years, FIlip gathered knowledge of various Frontend topics, with focus on Angular, and became Angular Lead Engineer. Some more time passed and Filip started focusing more on soft-skills and became JavaScript Team Lead at Infinum, while still continuing to do Angular development and being involved in architecture-level decision-making.
As for FIlip's personal interests and hobbies, he likes PC/Nintendo Switch Gaming, messing around with HiFi gear and mehcnical keyboards, and being a loving husband & father to his wife & child.

Connell Gauld
Zappar, UK
As CTO and Co-Founder, Connell oversees Zapworks (Zappar’s AR, VR & WebXR platform) as well as being responsible for all cloud infrastructure. Connell founded Zappar in 2011, alongside Dr. Simon Taylor, Caspar Thykier and Kirk Ewing and is one of the world's leading XR Platforms and creative studios. More recently, Connell and the team launched Zapvision, an app and SDK that's helping people who are blind or have low vision to access product information on packaging through a single Accessible QR code.

Cynthia Akiotu
United Kingdom
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.

Eitan Noy
Evinced, Israel
A veteran web developer and manager, with over 15 years of experience, loves accessibility, hates the color magenta, and would definitely love to have dinner with the founders of React.
Spent the last several years working at startups, creating shiny new web applications. These days Eitan leads the Frontend development at Evinced, on a mission to help everyone create more accessible web applications.

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.

Kevin Lamping
USA
Kevin Lamping is a Front-end Engineer and Tester. He runs a course on automated testing at http://learn.webdriver.io and has a YouTube Tutorial Channel (Front-end Testing with Kevin Lamping). In his free-time, when he's not playing with his kids, Kevin dabbles in tabletop gaming, disc golf and gardening.

Oz Syed
Sauce Labs, Canada
Oz is a Game Dev Evangelist at Backtrace, A Sauce Labs Company. He has over 15 years of experience in the game industry in various senior technical roles in gaming and software engineering. His major interests are emerging tech, machine learning and creating new tech products involving gaming or gamified applications.

Alex Astrum
Google, Canada
Alex Astrum is a passionate builder working in Developer Relations at Google’s Firebase, where he helps teams ship production-grade AI features with Genkit, Vertex AI, and Firebase Studio. He authored Firebase codelabs on Genkit and Gemini Extensions. He enjoys presenting live workshops and volunteering at hackathons. His current focus is around the transformational potential of AI in the app building space.

Hugh Francis
USA
Hugh Francis founded Sanctuary Computer, a profit sharing and worker-owned creative studio in Chinatown, NYC. The studio focuses on design and technology work for clients including The Light Phone, Mill, Hinge, Tend, Stripe, etc. Francis has a background in mechanical engineering and has spoken about his work at institutions like Yale School of Art and The School of Visual Arts. He's interested in building dynamic businesses that prioritize both collectivism and social responsibility.

Sofia Larsson
IKEA, Sweden
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-Elena Avadanei
Zoopla, UK
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.










