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!
Leo Goldfarb
Albato, Portugal
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.

Dora Makszy
Norway
Dora Makszy, an experienced product design lead, focuses on seamless product delivery through efficient collaboration with cross-functional teams, especially developers. With over 17 years of international experience in various roles (developer, business analyst, manager and mainly a designer), she has a comprehensive understanding of the entire process.

Dara Olayebi
Spotify, UK
Dara is a Software Engineer currently working at Spotify where she develops tools and services that provide internal teams with access to user account data. She began her career as a Frontend Engineer in the finance sector, and recently transitioned into full-stack development. With over 6 years of hands-on experience, Dara is particularly passionate about merging her creative and technical skills to design and build user-centric products that foster community. Outside of work, she loves to mentor other women who are at an early stage in their tech careers.

Nicolas Gorrono
SAVVITY, Chile and Australia
Nico Gorrono is the founder of SAVVITY, a leading AI-Powered SEO agency. With a focus on leveraging artificial intelligence to transform digital marketing, Nico has built a reputation for delivering innovative and effective SEO strategies that drive real results.
Through his popular TikTok account, where he shares insights and tips about AI-powered SEO with over 80,000 followers, Nico has established himself as a knowledgeable figure in the industry. He combines his expertise with a knack for making complex concepts accessible, empowering businesses and individuals to optimize their online presence.
Nico is also the creator of the "AI Ranking & Automation Hub" on Skool, a thriving community dedicated to teaching the latest AI-driven SEO techniques and automation strategies. His comprehensive masterclass, interactive webinars, and hands-on tutorials provide valuable resources to small business owners and marketers seeking to stay ahead of the curve.
Nico's practical approach and commitment to innovation have made him a sought-after speaker and consultant, helping businesses transition smoothly into the digital age.

Sierrah Coleman
Technical Product Manager, USA
Sierrah Coleman is a seasoned Technical Product Manager with a proven track record of driving product success in high-growth tech environments. At Indeed, she spearheaded initiatives that led to a 20% increase in positive relevance rating feedback and improved job match relevance by 9% through refined ML-based recommender systems. Her leadership in developing and launching an AI-powered query-relevance scoring feature boosted organic apply starts by 20% and sponsored apply starts by 15%.
During her tenure at Cisco, Sierrah Coleman increased customer retention by 12% through effective communication strategies and competitive analyses, leading to a 5% increase in annual revenue. She successfully launched an auditing feature, securing substantial upsell opportunities and contract renewals.

Adam Niederer
Chatham Financial, USA
Adam leads frontend development at Chatham Financial, where his efforts to centralize front-end resources and training have led to transformative improvements in product consistency and quality, accessibility of user experiences, and developer efficiency. In addition to the frontend, Adam especially enjoys working on projects involving performance, accessibility, and coding theory. Outside work, he spends his time learning human languages, writing open-source projects, and haunting his favorite sushi joint.

Nataliya Ioffe
Rangle.io, Canada
Nataliya Ioffe is a front-end software developer with a passion for guiding organizations through digital transformation and modernization processes. Her recent work has seen her partner with organizations as they upgrade their tech stacks with React and adopt Headless architectures with powerful content editing capabilities.
Evan Purkhiser
Sentry, USA
I am a software engineer who is passionate about building high-quality systems, tools, and applications.
I am continually striving for the feeling of having built something I’m proud of, something I know that I didn’t take shortcuts on, and something worth sharing. I also have a deep appreciation for modern design aesthetics and robust interaction design. The melding of form and function is my holy grail.

Meaghan Choi
Cloudflare, USA
Meaghan is a Designer at Cloudflare (previously Meta) focusing on the building the developer platform. Her expertise lies in creating developer experiences for cutting-edge technology including cloud computing, AI, machine perception and spatial computing. She is enthusiastic about bringing design into highly technical spaces and how design shapes development and vice versa.

Mika Schafroth
RELEX Solutions, Finland
Business-oriented software product engineer (M.Sc. in computer science) featuring 15 years of professional involvement in the entire life-cycle of digital products. Experience developing a variety of disruptive Internet technologies. Insights into modern travel, smart cities, the gig economy and social networking services.

Saravanan K Nagarajan
Rabobank, The Netherlands
Saravanan is an Architect working at Rabobank, Netherlands and one of the leads of the Growing Greener (Sustainability) community in the bank.
He has more than 22 years of experience in diverse IT and business roles with different banks across the world.
His passion is in Architecture, IT sustainability and Green Software and how we can generate more interest among the IT community in sustainable software.
He has been nominated as a "Green Software Champion" by the Green Software Foundation.

Andreia Ocanoaia
Genezio, Romania
Andreia brings a wonderful mix of academic experience and open-source passion to Genezio. Her expertise shines through in her contributions to streamlining FaaS/serverless deployments for the end users. Andreia is a passionate public speaker and technology advocate. She empowers developers to write clean, bulletproof code through her talks and articles. When she's not elbow-deep in writing code, you might find her talking about best practices for cloud and backend development at conferences or meetups.

Heather Murray
AI for Non-Techies, United Kingdom
Heather is a generative AI expert, Top 20 MarTech influencer, international speaker and Founder of AI for Non-Techies (AI training and learning hub).
Regularly featured in Forbes magazine, Heather brings energy and enthusiasm to the world of AI, her jargon-free approach helping people overcome confusion or fear when it comes to where to start. Heather has formed powerful working partnerships with Salesforce, Nokia and Starling and drove $75m in client pipeline in 2023, all with the help of AI.
Passionate about purposeful business, Heather and her team uses 20% of all profits to run hands-on work with isolated elderly people.

Nik Grishin
Albato, Portugal
Nik is the Product Director and Managing Partner at Albato, a market leader in iPaaS and NoCode. With over 8 years of experience, Nik is an expert in all aspects of startup creation and development from 0 to 1.
In addition to his main job, he also mentors young professionals, participates in conferences, and hosts offline meetings for entrepreneurs and product leaders. In his free time, he enjoys playing paddle, volleyball, hiking, and traveling.

Jiri Lojda
Kontent.ai, Czech Republic
Jiri is an Integrations Engineer at Kontent.ai. He loves to write type-safe, functional code using TypeScript and React as his primary tools. Always eager to learn and keep up with new technologies to enhance his skills and work, he wants to promote the advantages of this approach to project development in the community.







