JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Alex Shershebnev is a seasoned Computer Vision and MLOps Engineer with over nine years of experience shaping the future of AI-driven software development. Currently, Alex leads the ML/DevOps team at Zencoder, where he leverages his extensive background in Software Engineering, ML and DevOps to deliver high-quality machine learning solutions. His work spans complex data pipelines, cloud infrastructure management (GCP, Kubernetes), and advanced ML/DevOps pipelines, ensuring scalability and efficiency.

Heena is an open-source enthusiast since her college days. She completed her Bachelor of Technology from Delhi Technological University, 2011-2015 in computer engineering. She contributed to KDE organization during Google Summer of Code. Later, she mentored open-source contributors as a Google Code In, 2013 mentor and made the KDE community even more stronger by her diligent demonstration of mentorship skills. She was also one of the co-administrator and mentor for Search of KDE, 2014 and Google Code In, 2014. She has represented KDE organization in various Google Summer of Code knowledge sharing sessions held in DTU. She also presented KDE plasma projects in FOSSASIA 2015, Singapore. She also organized a Google Summer of Code meetup in Delhi which was featured in Google open-source blog. Apart from her open-source contributions, she has over 8 years of work experience as a software developer. She is currently working at Expedia as a Software Development Engineer III for Flights. She is one of the service owner for flights progressive web application. She has done several pipeline improvements for an efficient release process and is responsible for ensuring timely releases using the release pipeline for the same. She is a part of flights performance project where she shares a crucial role in making the flights progressive web application performance efficient. She has presented on “Portfolio Management through storytelling using narrative visualizations with advanced filtering” in Hong Kong Open Source Conference, 2017. She also presented a poster on “Optimal financial planning through storytelling using narrative visualizations with advanced filtering“ in Grace Hopper Conference India, 2017. She was also a mentor in “Learn IT, Girl” 2015 in which she mentored female developers.

My degree is in Graphic Design, but when I started coding by accident, I fell in love with the beauty of good code. I've never looked back. I've worked for tiny sole proprietorships and giant multinationals, startups and mature companies. I've found something interesting and worth doing at all of them.

Fullstack TS dev. I like mending legacy code. I organize a few meetup groups in Montréal, including React MTL and Software Crafters.

Charly Gomez joined Sentry in 2024 as a Software Engineer. He builds, breaks, fixes and maintains Sentry's JavaScript SDKs out of the city of Vienna, while having also lived several years in Spain and Italy. Charly enjoys salsa dancing, and plays a host of sports, including sailing, padel, cycling, football and is a CrossFit enthusiast.

Lena Reinhard (Website, LinkedIn) is an engineering leadership coach, mentor, and organizational developer supporting technology leaders in growing themselves and succeeding in the complexity of engineering organizations. Previously, Lena served as VP Engineering with CircleCI and Travis CI, and a SaaS startup co-founder & CEO, and has dedicated her career to helping leaders and their organizations excel in times of high change and challenging markets. She has worked with a broad variety of companies at all stages, from startups pre-founding and bootstrapped, scale-ups, to late-stage/pre-IPO and VC-funded ventures, to corporations and NGOs. Find her writing on leadership and more about her work at lenareinhard.com.

Self taught frontend developer from India who loves to tinker around with modern web technologies, College student & currently working at timeless.co

Jeff Hoffer is the Technical Leader for Growth at Rollbar, working to improve Rollbar's current products and assist in developing new products that engage customers by bringing Continuous Code Improvement tools to where they are. With over 20 years of experience developing software for startups and enterprises, scaling to Internet traffic, building and maintaining commercially licensed products, and developing internal enterprise tools, Jeff has worked as a Software Engineer, Software Architect and in Director and VP roles leading technology organizations at Intuit, The Bouqs Company, Lunchbox (acquired), Accordent (acquired by Polycom) and Countrywide along with consulting work at many other prominent firms. Jeff has a passion for software development which is why he loves working at Rollbar so much with the focus on improving the professional lives of developers and the strong engineering culture.

Sam Stepanyan is an OWASP London Chapter Leader and an Independent Application Security Consultant with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry with a background in software engineering and web application development. Sam has worked for various financial services institutions in the City of London specialising in Application Security consulting, Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), developer training, source code reviews and vulnerability management. He is also a Subject Matter Expert in Web Application Firewalls (WAF). Sam holds a Master’s degree in Software Engineering and a CISSP certification.

Will divides his time between web development and teaching, and has ever since 2005, when he started his web development career removing duplicate data from his friend's map-based property search app. Since then he has coded and taught in diverse contexts, from national newspapers to the shores of the Atlantic ocean. A qualified school-teacher, he is nevertheless passionate about alternative forms of education. He has spent the last two years researching and building his home-ed support platform, Aldeia (using React, obviously).

Miroslav Malecha is Director of Product management at Bonitoo.io. He has a background in computer science and has been focused on defining software products in data science, enterprise architectures and cloud computing. Prior to joining Bonitoo, Miroslav held product management positions at Good Data and Hewlett-Packard Software. When Mirek is not working, you can find him speeding down hills on his ebike in the forests near Prague.

Kristina J. Robinson is a Software Engineering Manager at InfluxData. With over 20 years of software development experience, she is thrilled to be a part of the InfluxData UI team. Most recently, Kristina spent time in the financial tech sector working as front-end developer. Kristina graduated from Rice University with a degree in Computational and Applied Mathematics. She currently lives in San Antonio, TX, with her husband and teenage son, and has another son in college. She also has two cats, and fosters dogs and cats frequently. She plays video games with both her boys. She reads voraciously, enjoys paper crafts and knitting, and plays several musical instruments.

Jennifer is a front end developer on the Docs and API Libraries team at Shopify where our goal is to make it easier for developers to build on Shopify’s platform by creating and curating technical resources. Jennifer has spent the last two years working on shopify.dev, Shopify’s home for developer documentation.

Carmen Huidobro is a developer advocate and dev education enthusiast. She thrives on lifting others up in their tech careers and loves a good CSS challenge. Always excited to talk about teaching tech, especialmente en Español, oder auf Deutsch.

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..

Nancy is a Millennial Executive at a Fortune 500 company as well as a certified Executive and Career Coach. With a 15-year career in innovative startups and large companies, she understands the challenges of Modern Leadership intimately. Nancy works with modern leaders to navigate their career and leadership with more confidence, purpose, and impact.

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.

I'm Emanuel - Sr. Cloud Application Architect at AWS and I am helping customers to build modern, secure and scalable application on AWS. I evangelize the user of serverless technologies to allow customers to focus on their business.

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.

Wesley is a Senior Principal Engineer at Modus Create, with over 13 years of experience building cloud-native applications for web and mobile. Working as a tech leader he's spending most of his time working closely with engineering, product, and design to solve customers' business problems. His experience sits at the intersection of hands-on coding, innovation, and people management with a mix of experiences going from AWS, Java and TypeScript to startups, agile and lean practices.

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

Passionate about technology, innovation, and learning new programming languages, I have been working with software and web development for over 9 years. I have strong front-end and back-end skills. Currently working with React/React Native. I also have experience working with agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.

You might be familiar with HTTP GraphQL APIs. Did you know GraphQL does not have to be delivered over HTTP? We can use GraphQL in some different contexts. asynchronous queries, batch operations, user-provided scripts, WebAssembly, webhooks, and many more. We will explore how Shopify uses GraphQL in different contexts and how you can extend your current GraphQL schema beyond HTTP APIs.