JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

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 :)

Amit Mandelbaum is a tech lead at AI21 labs, prior to joining AI21 labs Amit was an entrepreneur in the field of GenAI and a Director of AI at Nvidia. Amit is also an Angel investor in the field of AI and is a known keynote speaker and consultant on GenAI agents.

Keren is a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience in the industry. She holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and is passionate about React and learning new technologies. Keren volunteers as a program manager at Baot, a community that supports women in R&D in their professional growth. She instructs and inspires developers to write blogs in her tech blogging workshops. Keren has experience as a dev community leader and a co-organizer of meetups and events. And in her not-so-spare time, she studies psychology. Her hobbies include drawing, photography, and singing.

Leandro Fernandez is an Engineering Manager at Meta, London, with 16 years of experience as an engineer/manager in big tech, like Meta, Uber and Dell Technologies. He has a successful track record of supporting high performing teams of software and machine learning engineers. Some of the cool projects that he launched in the past include Uber's Audio Recording and Record My Ride, and Meta's automated data removal infrastructure.

I am a lead full-stack developer at l’Oréal, leveraging 7 years of expertise. Starting as a data scientist, my curiosity for web components led to a seamless transition into full-stack development, where I challenge myself everyday. Aside from tech, I love board games and sport in general.

Miranda Babbitt is the Partner Marketing Manager at Zapier, where she orchestrates the lifecycle for over 7,000 integration partners and spearheads co-marketing efforts with high-value partners like Meta, LinkedIn, and Google. As a die-hard fan of all things AI, automation, and communication, Miranda has driven initiatives that have significantly boosted partner engagement, ARR, and team collaboration. Before joining Zapier, she honed her skills at Thinkific, where she led platform marketing strategies and championed a first-of-its-kind virtual partner summit. Fun fact: Miranda also runs a design blog, Hyppïa Homes, all about exploring how design and one's sense of self intersect.

Kelly Goss is a process automation specialist and the founder of Solvaa, a no-code systems, process and automation consultancy. She is the author of "Automate It with Zapier" and "Automate It with Zapier & Generative AI"; a Xero Certified Advisor, Pipedrive CRM Certified Partner, SmartSuite Certified Partner and one of the very few women Zapier Certified Experts. Kelly and the Solvaa team help businesses around the world use the right digital tools and streamline their repetitive tasks to achieve their productivity goals and save money. Kelly loves painting, travelling, and watching psychological thrillers in her spare time.

Yossi Kahlon is a distinguished technology leader who has spearheaded transformative tech solutions, including leading the Google Cloud Console team in New York, significantly contributing to the development of Google Docs, and leading privacy and security efforts at Waze. As a former Director of Engineering for ClickHouse, his work has been pivotal in advancing database technologies for high-scale, real-time analytics. Yossi brings his wealth of knowledge and experience to co-founding and building Squid AI, an AI agent platform built for developers by developers.

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.

Mikhail is a seasoned developer and tech leader with track record of working with both large companies across EU and small startups. Mikhail is passionate about new technologies and loves to share his knowledge with the world.

Founder at uncloud on a mission to simplify baremetal for software teams. Software dev at heart with a passion for distributed systems and making things run at scale ⬥ YouTuber ⬥ Dad of Ida 👶🏻 Caretaker of Frodo 🐶

With 16 years of product and business leadership in marketing technology at top companies like Salesforce, Adobe, WPP, and Rakuten, Udipta has led 8-figure revenue units and launched NK BigStar, Northeast India's largest streaming platform, reaching 500K monthly active users. Currently in C-level roles at innovative crypto startups, he played a key role in Bowled.io's Token Generation Event, driving over $10 million in daily trading volume for the BWLD token across multiple exchanges.

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.

As a QA Engineer and Enthusiast, Olga loves to use modern and practical approaches to improve product quality. She believes that AI will never replace human work, but could help to improve the quality of testing and reduce efforts for a manual one.

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.

Sofia leads end-to-end product teams building services and customer experiences in a distributed architecture. She cares deeply about creating environments where engineers can do their best work. Outside of work, she co-hosts Developers!, one of Sweden’s most popular software podcasts.

Bogdana is an Engineering Manager at Zoopla, where she leads teams in building scalable, high-impact technology solutions. Over the past nine years, she has grown from an eager engineering intern into a thoughtful leader passionate about people, process, and continuous improvement. Her career spans both fast-paced startups and large organizations, giving her a broad perspective on how teams thrive in different environments. Beyond her day-to-day work, Bogdana is dedicated to supporting the next generation of technologists. She has taught at coding bootcamps and apprenticeships, guided students in launching their careers, and was an instructor for Code First Girls. Driven by curiosity and a focus on growth, Bogdana helps engineers find opportunities for learning and innovation in the fast-moving world of tech.

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.

Tech Lead and Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years' experience, believes that collaboration changes every game. Holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees.

I co-founded Semble after witnessing the challenges of a fragmented healthcare system first-hand. Driven by a desire to create meaningful change, I joined forces with my fellow tech entrepreneur and friend, Christoph Lippuner, who had also seen the impact of disconnected care. Leveraging our experience as tech entrepreneurs who had successfully exited their first start-up, we collaborated closely with doctors and healthcare staff to design an interoperable, all-in-one clinical system that truly meets their needs and enables them to amplify their impact. Today, Semble supports thousands of healthcare professionals across more than 77 specialities, helping to improve care for over 8 million patients.

I've been working as a business and system analyst on a significant amount of projects in different industries: government services, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, energy, EDI, and fintech. And it grants me an outstanding possibility to improve both sides of the process: how it works from a business perspective and how it could be automated or digitalized with IT capabilities. No matter where I’m working, I passionately follow my value of trustful relationships. For me, that means honest feedback, business transparency, a strong brand personality and attentiveness to details.

At the age of just 29, Katharina is Head of IT at hylane, a rental company for hydrogen trucks. She previously worked as a software developer and data engineer at WetterOnline for 9 years. In her work, she places a special focus on sustainable corporate IT and will share her experiences.

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.