JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

I have woven application development into my entire career, from time in the U.S. Army and U.S. Government to stints with the Big Four, the world's largest cloud services provider, and smaller startups. I have started my own company – twice – once providing consulting services and most recently with WorkFone, a software as a service startup that provided virtual digital identities to government clients. I love to build in public with Go and all things serverless!

Taylor is a Solutions Engineer who leads the new Yugabyte Cloud sales engineering effort helping small and large companies alike modernize their legacy databases. He has a strong passion for distributed databases having worked with them for most of his career.

Currently, Robert Hostlowsky is working as a developer, coach and systems engineer. He published an online video course about developing a full-stack GraphQL application online-course. He loves DevOps culture on modern cloud infrastructure, uses the latest state-of-the-art web technologies, and loves how it plays nicely together at minimum effort and cost. He loves web technologies. Feeling being a part of the developer community he is co-organizing the JSCraftcamp, Munich.

Bob is CEO and co-founder of SeMI Technologies, the business created around the open-source vector search engine Weaviate. Besides SeMI and Weaviate. Bob is a frequent speaker on the topics of open source, digital technology, software business, and creativity. He has spoken at around 100 events on the aforementioned topics in Europe, the US, and Russia.

I am a strong full stack developer, and a Ruby on Rails enthusiast. I'm passionate about formalized SDL processes, and clean, well-tested code. Having worked on the monolith that is the Words With Friends backend service at Zynga, I've architected, developed and deployed features that have been used by millions of concurrent users. I'm a huge supporter of University of Toronto, and an Arbor Award recipient. I guest lecture when I can, mentor students through the Alumni Mentorship program, and volunteer at numerous interview prep workshops, panels, and networking events for students.

Nick Teets is a software developer and musician based in Denver. Nick found his passion for connecting people using technology after spending summers in the Sandhills of Nebraska establishing a multimedia journalism nonprofit. Through an interactive website, the project told the stories of the communities of the area with audio, video, photos, and text. This early foray in journalism taught him about the intersection of empathy, technology, and storytelling, and would lead him to a career in frontend software development, creating beautiful and accessible user experiences to connect people across the world.

Roy Tal is a cloud and DevOps enthusiast who loves to build tool that will make infrastructure operations better for everyone. Today he is a team leader and founding team member at Firefly who are helping solve infrastructure drift in large-scale cloud operations. Before that he served as a backend developer at Dome9, building better security practices into cloud operations, that has been acquired by Check Point.

Software Engineer @Sentry

Erik van der Voort has been working in Information Technology for over 25 years now. Starting as a developer, he moved to other roles like technical and functional designer and project- and portofolio-management. Quite some years ago, he discovered engineering was what made him really happy so since then he has been working in several Ops- and DevOps-roles within ING. For the past five years Erik is one of the engineers within the Fruitloops-team. This team of engineers mainly focuses on building and deploying front-end applications on a global scale within the company.

Robert is a Ruby developer specializing in APIs, application design, and performance. Besides maintaining GraphQL-Ruby, he enjoys fermenting anything he can get his hands on.

Marco is a Data Scientist at the Samsung R&D Institute UK. Outside of work, he is a maintainer of pandas (data wrangling platform for Python widely adopted in the scientific computing community) and author of nbQA (code quality tool for Jupyter Notebooks). He holds an MSc in Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science from the University of Oxford.

Matt is a Product Evangelist at Tyk passionate about API management, development, and architecture. Matt has worked as a developer, tech lead, and architect for some of the largest financial institutions and insurers in Canada. He is always dabbling in the latest tech and applying this to his own ventures in technology.

Emily is a lead software engineer based out of Pittsburgh, USA. She's a lifelong learner, adjunct professor, and IoT enthusiast. Emily has a tech background in healthcare, robotics, and more recently, bringing local food to the masses at Harvie. In her spare time, you can find Emily working on her web agency startup, scuba diving, or trying her hand at landscape photography.

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.

Martin Mladenov is a Front-End Team Lead with more than 7 years in the management of FE teams. With a remarkable background in software development and a deep passion for WordPress, Martin is a true innovator in the tech space. His extensive experience includes leading projects that effectively bridge the gap between complex technology and user-friendly solutions. With a proven track record of leading international teams for prominent Bulgarian and UK-based companies, including GlobalData Plc and New Statesman Media Group. Currently driving the development of a next-generation gaming platform at Sesame Online, combining technical expertise and leadership to deliver innovative and scalable solutions.

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

Yishai Beeri likes to solve problems, and that’s why he was so fascinated with programming when first encountered Logo back in the 80s, where the possibilities seemed endless. He has made it a focus of his career to solve complex programming problems, both as a consultant and entrepreneur. In 2014 he joined the CTO office of a fast-moving cloud security startup, which later was acquired by a networking giant. At this startup he also met Ori Keren and Dan Lines, now co-founders of LinearB. He joined them shortly after the company was established, in order to get back to what he loves most about engineering, solving big challenges, and this time he is focusing on the world of Dev Productivity and Experience. He is also the host of the very successful Hebrew Podcast - Dev Interrupted.

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.

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".

Gil Friedman is Field CTO at Backslash Security, where he focuses on securing modern software development in the age of AI-driven coding. Prior to Backslash, he spent years leading engineering teams at Meta and SAP/Concur, building and scaling large, distributed systems and developer platforms used by millions. That hands-on experience shaped his perspective on AI-driven development—ensuring that innovation moves fast without compromising security, enterprise data, or developer environments.

Trish Ta is a Staff Developer Shopify with over 9 years of experience working on web applications. She started her career in creating software for data visualization. She is currently working on front-end libraries that empower developers to build cool things on top of Shopify’s platform.

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?"