JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Professional designer, web developer (freelance), business analyst (Cencosud) and teacher (PUC). Specialized in graphic design, UX/UI, and web development, I have garnered experience in both corporate and educational sectors. As an active volunteer at JSConf Chile, Fundación Antonia, Technovation Girls, and Women Who Code, I am recognized for my communication skills, leadership, and commitment to inclusion in STEAM. I possess a proven track record in teaching and simplifying complex technical concepts. My active participation in tech communities and a unique perspective on user interaction design position me as an influential voice in merging algorithmic art with programming, particularly in JavaScript.

I'm a Developer Advocate at Codium where I geek out over generative AI, automation, and the magic of scripting. When I'm not advocating, I'm usually elbow-deep in API adventures, because who needs free time when there's APIs that fail to do what I want them to do..

An avid technologist, Richard has worked on a variety of projects with a diverse range of people, crossing technologies, languages, and continents. With a particular focus on the front end space, he is currently working across teams to help build and develop the tech function at Sainsbury’s. Passionate about teaching and sharing, he’s also a co-organizer of JavaScript London and was previously a senior coach at React GraphQL Academy helping professional devs take their skills to the next level.

Alex is Partner Program Manager on the Microsoft Edge team and Blink API OWNER. Before joining Edge in 2021, he worked on Chrome’s Web Platform team for a dozen years where he helped design many new features. He served as overall Tech Lead for Chromium’s Project Fugu, lead Chrome’s Standards work, and acted as a platform strategist for the web. He also served as a member of ECMA TC39 for more than a decade and was elected to three terms on the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group. His technical projects have included Fugu, Progressive Web Apps, Service Workers, and Web Components, along with ES6 features like Classes and Promises. Previously he helped build Google Chrome Frame and led the Dojo Toolkit project. Alex plays for Team Web.

Andrew is a veteran software leader with two decades of experience across diverse industries, including finance and eCommerce. During his four years as a Principal Software Engineer at Miro, he has driven both infrastructure and product initiatives. He currently leads AI adoption for engineering, product, and design from within the Developer Experience stream. His background also includes three years at Skyscanner, where he helped architect a robust machine learning and personalization platform. Andrew lives with his family in the UK and tries his best not to think about imposter syndrome.

Hey, I am Joban, and I am currently working as a software engineer at Microsoft Azure. I have been developing planet-scale backend services for the past 2 years and would like to share my experience with Microsoft Orleans Framework, we have been using at Microsoft Teams.

Kat works as Quality Engineer at Zoopla. Tried lots of paths: fine arts, comparative literature, social psychology and cognitive science studies before discovering the most enjoyable so far tech path. Kat solves automation testing challenges at work and jigsaw after work. Lives in Scotland.

Iker Jusue is a freelance advisor, consultant, and people leader in the UK and Spain. He has more than 10 years of professional experience leading talent acquisition and human resources teams and projects across Europe and North America, specializing in sourcing, operations, talent insights, diversity, employer branding, and HR technology. He has worked with companies such as Microsoft, McKinsey, IQVIA, Oracle, or ThoughtWorks, or start-ups as Alan, Casumo, and Silicon Gears (TTTech Auto). He is also the first non-native English speaker to win the SourceCon Grandmaster title in 20191, as well as the first Sourcing Summit Europe Hackathon winner in 20172. He helps business and HR leaders to enhance their teams and strategies with his expertise and guidance in people and talent acquisition. He is passionate about finding innovative solutions for the challenges of the modern workforce.

Miguel Henriques is a Cloud Application Architect at AWS with over 4 years of experience building cloud-based, serverless-first applications for large customers in the automotive industry.

Mike Ryan is the co-founder of Polaris, an AI-powered site reliability platform. Mike is a Google Developer Expert specializing in software architecture. Mike has a strong background in working with IoT in industrial manufacturing and designing sophisticated and elegant user experiences. When not in front of his MBP you can find Mike hiking the backcountry in the Pacific Northwest.

Haris is a Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, where he makes contributions to open-source Grafana. Currently, he’s on the Explore squad, focused on improving data troubleshooting and discovery experience.

Senior Product Designer at FUIB and founder of ux-news.com

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.

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.

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

Yama is a data scientist at MyPart, an Israeli startup in the music industry, developing algorithms and researching lyrical and musical song features. In her spare time, she gives tech talks at conferences and meetups (Geektime Code, PyData Tel Aviv, IsraelClouds); and mentors a group of developers through their first steps in the data science world as a part of Baot - Israel’s largest community of senior female engineers and computer scientists. Yama has a B.Sc in mathematics and physics from Tel Aviv University where she also expresses her passion for music by playing the saxophone in the TAU Wind Band.

By day, Maarten supports front-end teams at Essent with their Accessibility and Design System challenges. By night, he tinkers with the Web Platform.

I currently work at ByteDance as an Engineering Lead for E-Commerce payments system software driving the business of TikTokShop product in the US. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Masters degree and Vellore Institute of Technology with a Bachelor's degree. I’m a seasoned Silicon Valley professional in the Payments domain with proven engineering expertise for 10+ years. I pioneered the Software Engineering marvel resulting in the increase of user count of products by about 800 times in less than 6 months, generating kick-start revenue of $120k per week during 0 to 1 product growth, tripling the revenue from $5 billion to $14 billion in less than 5 years by getting over the plateau growth, for some of the prominent products in the world like iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, AWS Amplify, Amazon Alexa mobile app, TikTok shop and Oracle backend server supercluster. The by-products of these business results are multifold improvement in Engineering productivity and grooming myriad software professionals for world class companies like Apple, Amazon, Oracle, SanDisk.

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.

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.

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

Anna is a visionary, performance-driven marketing professional with a decade of experience building and leading dynamic marketing teams at technology companies. Anna holds a steadfast belief that the evolution of technology paves the way for societal progress and reinforces the essence of humanitarian ideals. Skilled in harnessing the power of artificial intelligence in marketing, she sees it as a key to enhancing outcomes while streamlining resources and efforts. WomenInTech Mentor helping women break into the tech field with expert mentoring advice and support.