JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Bob is CEO and co-founder of SeMI Technologies, the business created around the open-source vector search engine Weaviate. Besides SeMI and Weaviate. Bob is a frequent speaker on the topics of open source, digital technology, software business, and creativity. He has spoken at around 100 events on the aforementioned topics in Europe, the US, and Russia.

I am a strong full stack developer, and a Ruby on Rails enthusiast. I'm passionate about formalized SDL processes, and clean, well-tested code. Having worked on the monolith that is the Words With Friends backend service at Zynga, I've architected, developed and deployed features that have been used by millions of concurrent users. I'm a huge supporter of University of Toronto, and an Arbor Award recipient. I guest lecture when I can, mentor students through the Alumni Mentorship program, and volunteer at numerous interview prep workshops, panels, and networking events for students.

Nick Teets is a software developer and musician based in Denver. Nick found his passion for connecting people using technology after spending summers in the Sandhills of Nebraska establishing a multimedia journalism nonprofit. Through an interactive website, the project told the stories of the communities of the area with audio, video, photos, and text. This early foray in journalism taught him about the intersection of empathy, technology, and storytelling, and would lead him to a career in frontend software development, creating beautiful and accessible user experiences to connect people across the world.

Roy Tal is a cloud and DevOps enthusiast who loves to build tool that will make infrastructure operations better for everyone. Today he is a team leader and founding team member at Firefly who are helping solve infrastructure drift in large-scale cloud operations. Before that he served as a backend developer at Dome9, building better security practices into cloud operations, that has been acquired by Check Point.

Blazej Abel - Entrepreneur, founder, and CEO of Landingi, one of the leading landing page platforms. An engineer by education. He bounded with the Internet industry for 20 years, when he started an interactive agency and spent most of his career close to website creation. Speaker at numerous conferences and a trainer. Husband, father, football player, cyclist and LEGO fan since 1982 :)

Software Engineer @Sentry

Erik van der Voort has been working in Information Technology for over 25 years now. Starting as a developer, he moved to other roles like technical and functional designer and project- and portofolio-management. Quite some years ago, he discovered engineering was what made him really happy so since then he has been working in several Ops- and DevOps-roles within ING. For the past five years Erik is one of the engineers within the Fruitloops-team. This team of engineers mainly focuses on building and deploying front-end applications on a global scale within the company.

Robert is a Ruby developer specializing in APIs, application design, and performance. Besides maintaining GraphQL-Ruby, he enjoys fermenting anything he can get his hands on.

Keren Fanan is the co-founder and CEO of Myop, a developer-first platform transforming how UI and UX are built, controlled and optimized in production. Keren has held key leadership positions at Moon Active and Gett and has a proven track record of success in scaling startups, launching strategic partnerships and driving profitability. At Gett, a global B2B transportation leader and unicorn, Keren served as Chief Revenue Officer and GM Enterprise. She was instrumental in scaling the company from its early stages to over $200 million in revenue, leading international SaaS strategy and overseeing marketing, sales, and business development. Following Gett, Keren joined Moon Active, a $5B gaming company, as VP of Product & Monetization. There, she led cross-functional teams, shaped product direction, and grew average daily revenue from $10K to $200K, contributing to over $1.5B in total revenue. Keren is a passionate advocate for women’s inclusion in tech and serves as a board member at Women in Tech (WIT). She also actively mentors and supports the next generation of female tech leaders.

Steven has 13+ years of industry experiance as an engineer, tech lead, interim CTO, technical co-founder and technical consulting. Starting out as a software engineer and moving quickly to tech lead and consulting to building digital venture teams across London. Most two roles have been Head of Technology and Head of AI/Developemnt for two multinational companies. Day to day activies focused around research, development and integration of new tools and workflows for engineering teams, hiring and training the next generation of developers and building modern sustainable software.

Francisco Gomes is a Tech Lead, building large-scale microservices systems. His work spans engineering standards, developer enablement, security, compliance, and architecture across modern stacks including cloud, frontend, backend, and AI. Beyond industry, he has taught aspiring engineers from over 20 countries, mentoring the next generation of software developers.

I am a software engineer with more than 8 years of experience. Over the last 5 years, I’ve worked with a wide range of companies, from start-ups to Fortune 500. I specialize in E-Commerce and am passionate about UX and AI.

Marco Pierobon is a seasoned Developer at Thoughtworks with well over a decade of experience in designing and implementing distributed applications. Specializing in cloud native technologies, he has led cross-functional teams in transitioning from project-based to product-oriented approaches. Marco has successfully orchestrated the migration of over 15 legacy systems to modern web-based platforms, significantly enhancing system scalability and performance. An active contributor to the tech community, he has presented at industry and tech conferences alike. Marco is passionate about driving innovation and efficiency in software development, aligning with the latest trends in cloud computing and AI integration.

Marco is a Data Scientist at the Samsung R&D Institute UK. Outside of work, he is a maintainer of pandas (data wrangling platform for Python widely adopted in the scientific computing community) and author of nbQA (code quality tool for Jupyter Notebooks). He holds an MSc in Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science from the University of Oxford.

I am an experienced Quality Assurance (QA) engineer with over 10 years of experience in testing web applications, mobile apps, and desktop platforms (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux). I contributed to the growth of a startup from 25 to 250 employees, leading to its sale for $0.5 billion. I have worked at companies like Check Point Software and Perimeter 81, focusing on testing, creating test cases, analyzing specifications, and cross-platform testing. My extensive background spans product and outsourcing companies in cybersecurity, fintech, and education. I am also eager to share advice on career development in QA.

Matt is a Product Evangelist at Tyk passionate about API management, development, and architecture. Matt has worked as a developer, tech lead, and architect for some of the largest financial institutions and insurers in Canada. He is always dabbling in the latest tech and applying this to his own ventures in technology.

Emily is a lead software engineer based out of Pittsburgh, USA. She's a lifelong learner, adjunct professor, and IoT enthusiast. Emily has a tech background in healthcare, robotics, and more recently, bringing local food to the masses at Harvie. In her spare time, you can find Emily working on her web agency startup, scuba diving, or trying her hand at landscape photography.

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.

As a developer advocate and technical writer at Buddy, Tom takes his love for communication and passion for technology and uses them to break down complex ideas into bites that everyone can swallow. Having worked directly on open-source projects, he is equally passionate about the front and the back-end - be it React, Go, or Kubernetes. In his spare time, he's a guitar-wielding amateur musician who dreams of recording a platinum album.

Over a decade building seamless web experiences. Web accessibility advocate. Technical lead behind award-winning sites. Design system tinkerer. Community and event ambassador.

I’ve spent over 15 years in tech, building products and leading engineering teams that scale. From writing code to shaping strategy, I love solving complex problems and turning ideas into real-world solutions. I believe great products are built by empowered teams, and I’m passionate about creating spaces where engineers can collaborate, innovate, and make an impact.

Software engineer with 10+ years of Java and Golang development experience. Working with large-scale test infrastructure during last 7 years. Maintaining a big Selenium cluster with 5000+ parallel browsers.

Manasa is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience, specializing in event-driven architectures, data engineering, and scalable systems. She has worked for top companies like Splunk, Selector AI, Celcom, Taulia, and RingCentral, and recently spoke at Grace Hopper Celebration 2024, receiving a standing ovation. Passionate about empowering women in tech, she mentors aspiring engineers and shares her journey from intern to lead engineer. Manasa balances career growth with family, continuously striving to lead with emotional intelligence and technical excellence.

I encourage others to see different perspectives and constructively break the rules. Observe - Optimize - Learn - Repeat is my work and life motto. Next to it, I found my joy in building and optimizing end-to-end Machine Learning Systems. Principal Data Solutions Engineer @ LINKIT Organizer (volunteer) @ PyLadies Amsterdam WaiACCELERATE Tech Mentor (volunteer) @ Women in AI