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!
Oliver Moradov
Oliver Moradov
NeuraLegion, UK
Oli is VP of NeuraLegion's developer focussed security testing platform, helping developers understand how they can run seamless, fast and accurate security tests on every build. Oli works closely with security and engineering teams globally to help them ship secure software more efficiently and is passionate about automation, CI/CD and DevOps / DevSecOps. Oli has spoken at many conferences internationally and is a regular at developer and security related events and meetups.
Sai Ekbote
Sai Ekbote
solo.io, USA
Sai Ekbote is a Software Engineer currently leading engineering for GraphQL at Solo.io. He has contributed to multiple open source projects such as Istio, Envoy and Flagger.
Sean Blundell
Sean Blundell
Babbel, UK
5+ years experience building React/ React Native applications. Currently a Front End Engineer part of the team responsible for Babbel's lesson trainers and interactions. Cofounder of the charity Little World.
Simon Stern
Simon Stern
Apricot Studios, Canada
Simon is a full-stack developer and React Native specialist with a keen interest in experimenting with bleeding edge software, building cool products, and sharing knowledge. Over the years he’s had a diverse set of experiences ranging from mobile apps, full-stack development, web3, AI & LLM’s. His clients have won awards in the healthcare space, been featured at the Cannes Film Festival, and were a partner in the Dubai 2020 Expo. Recently Simon has been exploring the frontier of the future as a member of the Network School in Forest City, Malaysia.
Katarzyna Wojdalska
Katarzyna Wojdalska
ec0lint, Poland
Katarzyna is the Co-founder and CEO of ec0lint - a tool for frontend developers that mitigates the carbon footprint of websites. On top of that, she works as a Project Manager in the nanotechnology company Nanores. Her focus lies on diamonds and vacuum sensors. Katarzyna enjoys cooking Asian food and visiting art exhibitions in her free time.
Eeva-Jonna 'Eevis' Panula
Eeva-Jonna 'Eevis' Panula
Futurice, Finland
Eevis is a software developer and accessibility specialist based in Finland. She loves sharing information about topics like accessibility, React and GraphQL, and is active in different communities aiming to increase equality in the tech field in Finland. When not coding, she explores the world around her with a kayak.
Jozef Sakáloš
Jozef Sakáloš
Bryntum, Slovakia
Saki is a seasoned software developer with decades of experience, specializing in JavaScript and modern web technologies. He has led the development of numerous web applications across various industries, blending deep technical knowledge with hands-on problem-solving. As a consultant and trainer, he supports teams in building scalable, high-quality solutions. His passion is sharing knowledge and promoting clean, maintainable code.
Eran Hammer
Eran Hammer
Sideway Inc, USA
Hapi.js contributor
Simon Waterer
Simon Waterer
Sourcegraph, UK
Simon Waterer is a Customer Engineer at Sourcegraph. He has worked across a range of technologies including object and NoSQL databases, high performance computing and distributed platforms including Kubernetes and Mesos. Outside of technology, he likes most sports but especially cricket, rugby and F1. And loves spending time outdoors with his dog.
Darshita Chaturvedi
Darshita Chaturvedi
Atri Labs, USA
Darshita Chaturvedi is the Co-Founder & CEO of Atri Labs where she is leading the development of a new full-stack framework for web development. She has five years of experience working in Machine Learning and Data Science fields in various capacities from Graduate Research Assistant at MIT (USA) to Quant Researcher at BlackRock, a US headquartered asset management firm. She completed her undergraduate education in Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India, and dropped out from graduate program in management at MIT Sloan to work on her startup full-time. Her favorite past times are painting and learning art history.
Abdelrhman Adel
Abdelrhman Adel
Rangle, Netherlands
Abdelrhman Adel is an Amsterdam-based Solution Architect at Rangle.io, helping clients build better software experiences using technologies such as Angular, React, and Typescript. Once a Petroleum Engineer, he switched career paths to follow his passion for technology and improving user experiences. When he’s not working, you can find him gaming or binge-watching a new TV series.
Kurtis Kemple
Kurtis Kemple
Forthright, USA
Founder and Principal Advisor at Forthright (https://twitter.com/forthright_tech).
Brandon Ward
Brandon Ward
StackHawk, USA
Brandon is a full stack engineer who finds enjoyment working with Kotlin. When not working, he frequently gets outside to snowboard or mountain bike. He also enjoys tinkering with smart home technology.
Chris Stavitsky
Chris Stavitsky
Sentry, USA
Chris has a background as a web developer. He previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at a company that used Sentry for error monitoring. Chris liked the product so much that he decided to come work for Sentry and make finding and fixing bugs easier for other developers.
Rob Sutter
Rob Sutter
Fauna, USA
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 Mull
Taylor Mull
Yugabyte, USA
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.
Robert Hostlowsky
Robert Hostlowsky
Instana, Germany
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 van Luijt
Bob van Luijt
Weaviate, Netherlands
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.
Rebecca Friedman
Rebecca Friedman
Shopify, Canada
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
Nick Teets
StackHawk, USA
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
Roy Tal
Firefly, Israel
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.
David Wang
David Wang
Sentry, USA
Software Engineer @Sentry
Bar Hofesh
Bar Hofesh
NeuraLegion, Israel
Co-Founder, CTO & Security Researcher at NeuraLegion. Developer and security researcher, I love playing with Neural networks and other ML tools. I'm interested in new programming languages and the potential they bring.
Gavin Ray
Gavin Ray
Hasura, USA
Full Stack Web Developer with expertise in all aspects of the web development life cycle, including requirements analysis, design, development and production support. Primary strengths are Node & Javascript (ES6, React, Vue), React Native, Ruby on Rails, Amazon Web Services/Heroku, and SQL + NoSQL Database Management.