JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

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.

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.

Gunj Joshi is a core contributor to stdlib, the JavaScript standard library for numerical and scientific computing. His work spans special mathematical functions, FFT implementations, and automated generation of high-performance packages at scale. A Google Summer of Code contributor and mentor, he has spoken at JSNation (US & EU) and FOSSASIA. Previously, he worked as a Quantum Research Intern at IBM and an open-source intern at Quansight, and currently works at a high-frequency trading firm.

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".

Sam is the cofounder/CTO at Oso working on making security more accessible for developers. Sam previously got a PhD in Cryptography and was a contributor to TLS 1.3

Author of RescriptRelay and host of RelayMeetup.com. Partner at Arizon, a Swedish IT-consultancy and startup incubator. Loving GraphQL, Relay and ReScript.

Marko is a Solutions Engineer for Yugabyte Cloud, he works with Yugabyte cloud customers to successfully build high throughput applications using the Yugabyte Cloud database.

Mobile Engineering Manager at Shopify

Engineering Manager @ Shopify

Clint Cameron is a Product Marketing Manager at Sonar, a leader in software static analysis solutions. He joined Sonar in 2018 and enjoys passionately and transparently promoting the value of SonarSource tools to developers at all experience levels. Previous to Sonar, he has held roles in product and project management, consulting, sales operations and engineering.

Adam Jahr is the co-founder of Vue Mastery, the ultimate learning resource for Vue developers and the biggest financial backer of the Vue framework. As an e-learning educator, he has taught hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide and teaches live at conferences across the globe. Adam is a proud Vue.js Community Partner. When he isn't teaching Vue, he enjoys creating interactive art installations.

Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding Manager at Hoxhunt

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.

Former Coding bootcamp instructor, Oracle cloud engineer, and current AWS developer working with Agentic AI. Transitioned career from biomedical sciences into tech after college. Passionate about developer productivity and success.

Goran is the CTO and Co-founder of syntheticAIdata, a startup company dedicated to democratising the vision AI market by providing affordable and accessible synthetic data. With over 20 years of work experience in IT and a deep understanding of various technologies, Goran worked as an engineering and technical manager, among other roles, developing IT strategies and solutions for well-known clients. Goran is a tech enthusiast, he writes technical blog posts and he likes to share his knowledge at conferences, workshops, and meetups. He is recognised as Microsoft AI Most Valuable Professional (AI MVP), and his projects have been highlighted on websites such as Forbes, The Next Web, NVIDIA Developer, TechCrunch, and others.

Will is a Staff Developer Advocate at Miro and has been in the Developer Relations space for the last 6 years at organizations like Zoom, Miro, and Meetup. He's passionate about all things API-related and the interconnectedness of the web.

Samhitha is a full-stack software engineer at BlackRock, currently spearheading the UI architecture for the second generation of a high-scale, data-intensive investment management application. She is a University of Southern California alumna with a Master’s degree in CS, where she was also a Graduate Teaching Assistant and a Webmaster. Passionate about youth education and empowering women in STEM, Samhitha advocates for these causes through panel discussions, coding workshops and teaching. She serves as a mentor and judge at various hackathons, helping young developers refine their skills, and is also a contributor to freeCodeCamp. Outside of work, she loves to paint and has been doing it for over 20 years now.

Systems Engineer, Emerging Tech & Incubation @ Cloudflare. Helping you internet your things. Equally as likely to be hacking on a Raspberry Pi or baking one.

Aikerim Belispayeva is a Senior Analyst at Memorial Healthcare System, where she leads data-driven initiatives to improve hospital billing accuracy, detect improper payments, and modernize revenue cycle management. With a Master’s in Data Analytics and a strong background in SQL, Python, and EHR systems like EPIC, she works at the intersection of data science, healthcare finance, and regulatory compliance. Aikerim brings a unique perspective to the tech world — blending deep industry expertise with hands-on analytics to advocate for smarter, more user-centric data tools. She is also a recognized speaker and award-winning advocate for using data to drive impact in public health systems.

Amit Mandelbaum is a tech lead at AI21 labs, prior to joining AI21 labs Amit was an entrepreneur in the field of GenAI and a Director of AI at Nvidia. Amit is also an Angel investor in the field of AI and is a known keynote speaker and consultant on GenAI agents.

Keren is a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience in the industry. She holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and is passionate about React and learning new technologies. Keren volunteers as a program manager at Baot, a community that supports women in R&D in their professional growth. She instructs and inspires developers to write blogs in her tech blogging workshops. Keren has experience as a dev community leader and a co-organizer of meetups and events. And in her not-so-spare time, she studies psychology. Her hobbies include drawing, photography, and singing.