JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

With 15+ years in Digital Marketing and Tech, Leo has built and led numerous high-performing teams and streamlined key business operations. He spent 5+ years as COO at iProspect, a major performance marketing agency within the Dentsu group. Prior to that, he held roles as a marketing expert at Booking.com and as a business consultant for IBM, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard. Currently, at Albato, a no-code integration platform, Leo leads customer acquisition and business development efforts. Albato helps SaaS companies drive growth and enhance customer experience through native, embeddable API integrations.

Oli is currently a Frontend Engineer & Tech Lead at Cleo working across the mobile (React Native) & web (React) products. He sits within the savings squad whose mission is to help Cleo users build a safety net of savings.

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.

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.

Distinguished Game Developer and Backend Engineer with a solid track record of 8+ years in constructing sophisticated APIs, microservices, and libraries, and a specialized focus on game design and development. As a Senior Software Engineer at Booking.com, a premier global travel accommodation provider, I am leading the way for tech stack modernisation, shaping the architectural vision and technical strategy, and building recommendation & ranking systems that support 10 million users per day. Furthermore, I am mentoring engineers and fostering a thriving technical environment. My experience extends to developing compelling games and interactive experiences, having designed intricate game worlds using procedural generation and artificial intelligence. My expertise in JavaScript and Python game libraries, combined with my knowledge of AI and ML models, equips me to leverage the power of generative AI in creating immersive gaming environments. This unique blend of skills ensures I am at the forefront of innovative game development, thereby enhancing the gaming experience for players across the globe. My foray into game development commenced at Lazy8Games as a Software Engineer, where I designed and prototyped scalable, reliable game interfaces using Unity Engine and Photon Networking. I have a history of creating award-winning, visually compelling and technically challenging games such as: "Dystopian Skies" - recognised as the #1 Mobile Game at an inter-collegiate game-dev competition. It is a multiplayer 3D game set in a post-apocalyptic scenario, using a variation of the ROAM algorithm for earth simulation. In the game, players combat space drones to reclaim infested land on earth. "Arcane Aero" - A side-scrolling action arcade game for Android, developed as part of an entrepreneurial project Blooming Pixel, and live on the Google Play Store. In my subsequent role as a Software Engineer, I designed and developed intricate engineering applications using multiple programming languages and frameworks, including Java, C++, OpenSceneGraph, OpenGL, Qt, and C# across Windows, Linux, and Android platforms. Here, I particularly worked on GIS Applications, where I developed modules in the digital graphics domain, leveraging my understanding of performance graphics, a crucial component in game development. I also designed a GPS-based tracking application on Android with map caching, besides maintaining a software SDK stack on Linux. My technical prowess extends to Service reliability, System design, Kubernetes, Java, Kafka, Protobuf, BigData platforms (Apache Hadoop/Hive/Oozie/Spark), C#, Python, Perl, MVC Frameworks, JavaScript Frameworks, and Android app development, backed by an engineering degree from IIT Bombay (Mumbai), a leading engineering university in Asia. As a thought leader, I enjoy exploring and speaking about the intersection of AI, game development, and backend engineering, and frequently share these insights through technical speaking engagements. My other passions include chess and alpine skiing. Continually pushing the envelope in the gaming industry, I relish the challenge of crafting unique gaming experiences through the power of generative AI.

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.

Tom is a Senior Software Engineer at Canva, based in Sydney. He has worked on Canva’s Apps SDK for the last few years, working across the stack to deliver the APIs that Canva’s growing developer ecosystem loves.

David Burrowes is a software engineer at Split.io with a decade of experience developing web applications for companies like Box, Delphix, and VMware. Having worked without feature flags, and with clunky in-house feature flagging frameworks, David is deliriously happy to have all of Split's capabilities at his disposal for every project. For fun, and to prove he’s more Star Trek than Star Wars, David likes to randomly quote large sections for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

André is a seasoned developer with over 20 years of experience and is currently a Principal Engineer at bettermarks, a Berlin-based EdTech company. When AFK, he loves biking, watersports and woodworking.

Tele2 Kazakhstan, Front-end TeamLead, 10 years of web development, in love with project transformation and refactoring React based applications.

For more than twelve years, Itai has been creating on the full spectrum of software development. Anything from simple POCs to intricately complex systems, from native mobile development to fully fledged backend architecture, from libraries and SDKs to client facing applications.

David works as a post-sales Solutions Engineer at Rollbar, with a focus on customer enablement and custom solutions delivery. He is passionate about anything that combines technical learning with customer interaction, and is curious about finding ways to apply technology to improve the UX of everyday life. He has specific knowledge around software observability practices, and worked as a Professional Services Consultant at Sumo Logic before joining Rollbar in August. David earned a BS in Computer Science from Auburn University.

Pramod Shenoy is currently working as a Solutions Architect at Cloudinary. His interests align with his 8 years of experience at Akamai and Catchpoint in web performance and optimization, CDNs and monitoring digital experiences. Outside of work Pramod likes to hike, read blogs on tech, sports and stock markets.

~10y of experience as a full stack engineer with a focus shifted from the backend to the frontend since ~5 years ago. For the past 5 years live in Berlin, Germany. Like strict typing, functional programming, tech in general, traveling, and gaming.

Joyee works on the compilers team at Igalia. She is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee and a V8 committer.

Logan Ralston is a Software Engineer for TikTok who works on TUX, TikTok's internal design system. Logan has always had a passion for technology and design. He also is an avid proponent of the hackathon scene and has previously served as the director of McHacks, one of Canada's largest hackathons.

Hi, I'm Walmyr. I'm a software engineer who loves testing. I'm also a clean coder, blogger, YouTuber, podcaster, Cypress.io Ambassador, online instructor, mentor, speaker, an active member of the testing automation and JavaScript communities, and a fan of good music, tattoos, gardening, vegan 🌱 food, and skateboarding.

Matt Butler, Artist, and Art Director. Previously worked in London and the USA for Virgin, EA, Sega, and Activision creating games for the X box and Playstation. Matt moved into the iGaming industry 7 years ago, he currently works for Evolution with the Netent Brand. He has directed with the help of an amazing art team many of Netent´s most successful slot titles such as Divine Fortune, Narcos, and Jumanji.

Web Developer and IT Analyst with a demonstrated history of providing development, data analysis, and communications support in the higher education, non-profit, and government sectors. Skilled in JavaScript, PHP, and SQL and a passion for DEI, community-based education/apprenticeship, and organizational behavior.

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