JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

I am a Software Engineer at Figma, hailing from Leeds in the UK. I have always worked full stack but there is a special place in my heart for anything visual, which has lead me to my role on the Developer Tools team at Figma. What excites me about technology is being able to rapidly iterate on things and work with the smartest people around to build cool stuff! In my spare time I enjoy hanging out with my cat, oil painting and getting out into the countryside on my own two feet.

Principal Engineer and active open source contributor. From Minsk, but now based in London and work at DAZN. I like playing around with TS, React, Redux, MobX/MST, RxJS, WebGL, Serverless, Node, Functional Programming with a focus on performance, system architecture and team productivity.

Melanie loves being a software engineer. The infinite loop of bugs, puzzles and learning make of everyday a new adventure. Her specialty and the love of her life is Vue.js, but lately she has been adding Nuxt.js and Node.js to the party. When she is not working as a software engineer at Capgemini, she uses her web development skills to remove micro plastic in the waters of the world. Her goal in this life is to work towards a more sustainable way of life, meaning that her hobbies include sailing the world, documenting underwater micro-life, and picking up trash with podcasts blasting. She is always trying on many different hats: trainer, team lead, community builder, talker, organizer. But the hat that fits best is developer.

Engineering Manager in UI Engineering at JP Morgan, Steve works with the core engineering teams creating open source developer tooling and an accessible React component library aimed at streamlining the life of development teams across the bank. Steve has working in JavaScript development focused roles since 2001 from ad agencies to fintech and IE6 through to evergreen Chrome, he is the author of several widely used open source libraries and describes his career as having been lucky enough to follow his hobby and his passion every day for over two decades.

Mobile Engineering Manager at Shopify

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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.

Engineering Manager @ Shopify

Arsalan Khattak is a Developer Advocate passionate about modern web technologies. He has created content for GitHub Education and spoken at major events like Google DevFest and Microsoft Reactor. Beyond tech, Arsalan is an adventurer and motorcycle enthusiast.

Theo is a full stack designer, developer, and entrepreneur, passionate about dev tools and building simple solutions to complex problems. He's worked in a range of industries for companies like Breather, System Initiative, and Clay.

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.

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.

Blazej Abel - Entrepreneur, founder, and CEO of Landingi, one of the leading landing page platforms. An engineer by education. He bounded with the Internet industry for 20 years, when he started an interactive agency and spent most of his career close to website creation. Speaker at numerous conferences and a trainer. Husband, father, football player, cyclist and LEGO fan since 1982 :)

Daniel is a software engineer with a background in first, local, and then international and VC-backed startups. He's now the lead engineer at Reckon Digital, where he directs and coordinates several projects with clients such as the UN's World Food Programme.

Todd has a passion for promoting a healthy product and engineering culture, collaboratively exploring ways to solve both organizational and engineering needs, as well as holding regular discussions around how to evolve the software engineering craft. Todd believes in a human centered approach to engineering, where the experience of those creating and evolving the product is just as important as those that use the product. A native to California's bay area, Todd’s journey into programming started over two decades ago and he has been privileged to work with many technologies as well as leadership roles over the years. With his experience as a Principal of Software Engineering Practices, in the Technology Center of Excellence at Pluralsight, Todd supported both individual software engineers and the technical leadership team in helping to continually improve and work together in a way that enables everyone to do their best work. Todd loves to play the guitar, and is always open to jamming out and frequently enjoys paired programming with strangers.

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.

I like to introduce myself as a hybrid — part Enterprise Architect, part Senior Solution Architect. I thrive at both ends of the spectrum: shaping strategic E2E target state architectures and rolling up my sleeves to prototype Industrial IoT, AI and Edge solutions with expertise on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. I’m passionate about solving complex problems, building future-ready platforms, and delivering impact across the products that we build.

I'm a seasoned Product Manager with over five years of experience in a leading digital media company, where I have overseen the development and scaling of multiple high-traffic news platforms built on React. With an engineering background from a prestigious government college in Delhi, I bridge the gap between technical innovation and business strategy. Their expertise spans real-time user management, subscription lifecycle optimization, and cross-functional team leadership. I'm passionate about sharing actionable insights on building robust, scalable, and user-centric React applications that thrive in fast-paced, high-demand environments.

Vadim Zhamkov is a Fronted Architect with 14+ years experience in web development. Organiser of AmsterdamJS, React Amsterdam and AI Tinkerers Amsterdam meetups. Former organiser of MoscowJS meetups.

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 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.

Clint Cameron is a Product Marketing Manager at Sonar, a leader in software static analysis solutions. He joined Sonar in 2018 and enjoys passionately and transparently promoting the value of SonarSource tools to developers at all experience levels. Previous to Sonar, he has held roles in product and project management, consulting, sales operations and engineering.