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!

Lenny Burdette
Apollo, USA
Lenny is a Solutions Architect at Apollo Graph in San Francisco, CA. He was previously a software engineer and graph champion at Square. When he’s not thinking and talking endlessly about GraphQL and frontend, he’s probably trying to recreate some dish from a YouTube cooking video or hanging out with his wife and son.

Johan Eliasson
Nhost, Sweden
Johan Eliasson is CEO & Co-Founder of Nhost. Johan has been building apps his whole life and is passionate about making it easy to develop web and mobile apps. Prior to Nhost, Johan helped grow his family business, driving innovation in the Swedish water treatment market. Johan graduated from Blekinge Institute of Technology with a Master of Science in Computer Security, Computer & Information Systems.

Clint Cameron
Sonar, USA
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.

Adam Jahr
Vue Mastery, USA
Adam Jahr is the co-founder of Vue Mastery, the ultimate learning resource for Vue developers and the biggest financial backer of the Vue framework. As an e-learning educator, he has taught hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide and teaches live at conferences across the globe. Adam is a proud Vue.js Community Partner. When he isn't teaching Vue, he enjoys creating interactive art installations.

Chinmay Gaikwad
Epsagon, USA
Chinmay is a Technical Evangelist at Epsagon with experience in data center and cloud technologies. Previously, he worked at companies such as Intel, IBM and early-stage startups. Chinmay has an MS in Computer Science from Columbia University and an MBA from UC Berkeley. In his free time, he loves traveling and exploring restaurants.

Christian Sparks
Cloudflare, USA
Christian Sparks is a Systems Engineer working at Cloudflare, primarily focused on Builds and Automation for the developer platform. His work ranges across the stack, from front-end to Golang backends, to bleeding edge Workers-based services. Specifically, he works on the customer-facing build systems for the Pages and Workers CI, helping make the process of deploying applications on Cloudflare easier.

Wowa Effect
Music producer, Live techno performer, Germany
Wowa Effect aka Wowa Barssukov revives the art of creating music with knowledge and analog instruments. His unique tracks originate from a combination of retro synthesizers, drum machines, and samplers. He transcends mood into music, no exact recreation possible when playing live; all sounds originated by hand. His debut performances were underground raves and house parties in 2018.
His musical knowledge is based on classical Russian music education. Growing up in Siberia in the ’90s, his childhood was filled with communism, the sense of upheaval, and the upcoming of an underground raver scene. He started his electronic music journey under the name ‘Limpfate’ in 2017 first by creating his tracks with Ableton Live, until growing bored of the unengaging production. He then discovered analog synthesizers and drum machines, which shaped the sound of the electronic music scene in the ’90s, and spent countless hours on mastering the complex devices.
This art of performing allows Wowa to explore the vast horizon of electronic music. Therefore his sounds vary from ecstatic electro over the groovy house to deep techno. His tracks take the listeners on journeys through the unknown, full of surprising details.
When watching Wowa perform, you will notice a set of blinking lights, cables, and his straight face. When Wowa plays, it’s without exception, live.
Wowa now lives in Berlin, close to the pulse of the original German techno scene with its renowned Berghain.

Filip Voska
Infinum, Croatia
Filip graduated from Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb in 2017 and has started his careers at Infinum as JavaScript Engineer. Over the years, FIlip gathered knowledge of various Frontend topics, with focus on Angular, and became Angular Lead Engineer. Some more time passed and Filip started focusing more on soft-skills and became JavaScript Team Lead at Infinum, while still continuing to do Angular development and being involved in architecture-level decision-making.
As for FIlip's personal interests and hobbies, he likes PC/Nintendo Switch Gaming, messing around with HiFi gear and mehcnical keyboards, and being a loving husband & father to his wife & child.

Gunj Joshi
stdlib, India
Mentorship available
Gunj Joshi is a core contributor to stdlib, the JavaScript standard library for numerical and scientific computing. His work spans special mathematical functions, FFT implementations, and automated generation of high-performance packages at scale. A Google Summer of Code contributor and mentor, he has spoken at JSNation (US & EU) and FOSSASIA. Previously, he worked as a Quantum Research Intern at IBM and an open-source intern at Quansight, and currently works at a high-frequency trading firm.

Michael Poteat
Volley Inc, USA
Located in the vibrant city of San Francisco, Mike Poteat is a committed technical leader, skilled software engineer, and approachable people manager. His areas of interest are wide-ranging and encompass programming, type theory, pure mathematics, and more.
In the open-source world, Mike has had the opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects. One of these, hkt-toolbelt, applies higher-kinded types to TypeScript in an attempt to expand its functionality. Additionally, he's worked on spellbound, an agent-based LLM-powered VS Code extension that aims to enhance the usability of the platform.
Currently, Mike finds himself immersed in the voice AI industry at a startup backed by Y Combinator. He's part of a team working on the front lines of artificial intelligence, continually learning and evolving their approach to create cutting-edge solutions.
Away from his day job, Mike takes time to reflect and share his experiences on his blog, code.lol. He delves into topics around machine learning, programming, and other tech-related subjects, hoping that his musings might offer value to others exploring these fields.
Hanna Chen
Shopify, Canada
As a former agency developer, Hanna has experience building apps on various platforms. At Shopify, she is a front-end developer on a team dedicated to building out the capabilities that enable great embedded apps. Hanna has spent the last three years building and maintaining Shopify App Bridge, a JavaScript library that lets developers embed apps directly inside the Shopify Admin and Shopify POS.












