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!

Gil Eckstein
Wix, Israel
Gil is a Performance Architect at Wix Viewer. For the past eight years, he has been helping build the application that powers Wix websites. As part of the Viewer team, Gil works on making it easy for anyone to create their dream website and for developers to extend the functionality of their Wix websites.
With over 10 years of experience in software development, Gil started his career in networking and Linux but always had a passion for web development. For the past four years, he’s been leading the Viewer performance team, working on Wix websites performance and ensuring they load as fast as possible.
In his free time, Gil likes working out at the park, playing basketball, and working on his personal projects—many of them built with AI ;)

Karina Ionkina
Bloomberg, USA
Karina Ionkina works as a senior software engineer on the Data Visualization team at Bloomberg, which builds and maintains multiple full-stack tools used by the company’s reporters and data visualization developers (see examples of these visuals at https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics). Outside of work, Karina likes to play tennis, paint, and sew. Karina earned her bachelor’s degree in computer science from Hunter College (CUNY).

Joel Chippindale
Monkey’s Thumb, UK
Joel is a CTO Coach who supports start-up and scale-up CTOs to successfully and confidently navigate the changes in their roles as their businesses evolve. He has over 20 years experience building, scaling and leading software development teams, mainly in start-ups, where he held both CTO and COO roles.

Anton Zalaldinov
Affirm, Canada
Anton is a Senior Software Engineer at Affirm, specializing in building robust and scalable JavaScript solutions. Outside of work, Anton actively contributes to the tech community by helping organize Vancouver JS, fostering developer learning and networking opportunities.

Sarah Rainsberger
Astro, Canada
Sarah Rainsberger leads a large open-source software documentation project with several maintainers and over 1000 community contributors. She brings a background in high school mathematics education, academic counseling, and curriculum development to her current technical writing and open source community building. She lives in Atlantic Canada with her husband J. B. (Joe). In her spare time, she photographs birds.

Alem Tuzlak
Code Forge, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alem Tuzlak is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Founder of Code Forge. He builds open-source tooling and products in the TanStack ecosystem and React Router/Remix, and is known for creating developer-focused libraries and devtools that help teams build, debug, and ship faster. He is best known for his work on TanStack AI & TanStack Devtools. Alongside his engineering work, Alem teaches and shares practical insights through workshops, writing, YouTube and community work.

Ido Moshe
AG Grid, United Kingdom
Ido Moshe is a software engineer with over a decade of experience building scalable web applications and developer tools. He currently works on charting libraries at AG Grid, focusing on clear, high-performance data visualization.
He has led front-end architecture across diverse domains, with a focus on building modular UI systems, streamlining development workflows, and reducing complexity in evolving codebases. His work emphasizes maintainability, clarity, and thoughtful abstraction.

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.

Ryan Feigenbaum
GrowthBook, USA
Ryan Feigenbaum is a Dev Advocate at GrowthBook, helping teams build scalable feature flagging and experimentation systems. A JavaScript enthusiast with a love for performance and developer tooling, they’re passionate about making experimentation seamless for engineers. When not deep in flags and rollouts, they’re probably sipping a bourbon, playing chess, and having a spirited disagreement with their dog, Mel.

Jen Person
Squid Cloud, USA
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.













