JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Software developer with more than 20 years of professional experience. Team member of Vite and Svelte.

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.

Nataliya Ioffe is a front-end software developer with a passion for guiding organizations through digital transformation and modernization processes. Her recent work has seen her partner with organizations as they upgrade their tech stacks with React and adopt Headless architectures with powerful content editing capabilities.

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.

Tom is the Chief Product Officer at Vercel leading Engineering, Product, and Design. Previously he spent over 12 years at Facebook where he led development of the company’s core JavaScript Infra, shaped its open source program, and was responsible for the creation and development of React and React Native. He enjoys traveling, dance music, fancy cocktails, and simple food.

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.

Benjamin Swerdlow took a break from his studies at UChicago, to go work as a Senior Backend Engineer for Apple, who recently took a break from Apple to build Freestyle. He's been building in the Open Source community since high school, and was a technical lead for the World Health Organization's COVID-19 App team.

Graham is the Co-founder and CEO of GrowthBook, the most popular open-source feature flagging and A/B testing platform. GrowthBook is backed by Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures. Before starting GrowthBook, Graham was the CTO of Education.com for 6 years. Graham is a three-time startup founder, including starting an international non-profit to increase access to communication in the developing world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. He has a degree in Physics from CMU.

An avid technologist, Richard has worked on a variety of projects with a diverse range of people, crossing technologies, languages, and continents. With a particular focus on the front end space, he is currently working across teams to help build and develop the tech function at Sainsbury’s. Passionate about teaching and sharing, he’s also a co-organizer of JavaScript London and was previously a senior coach at React GraphQL Academy helping professional devs take their skills to the next level.

Oleksandr Tryshchenko - Senior Engineering Manager @ Personio He has experience with micro-frontends across three SaaS companies. Initiated and led the migration of FreshBooks from a monolithic UI to a micro-frontends architecture. Currently, he serves as a Senior Engineering Manager at Personio, where he leads the efforts to migrate the entire organization, which encompasses over 130 micro-frontends, to a new design system.

Dmitry is a Microsoft veteran, working for more than 13 years. He started as a Technical Evangelist, and in this role presented on numerous conferences, including twice being on stage with Steve Ballmer. He then worked for 2 years as Senior Software Engineer, helping big European companies to start pilot digital transformation projects based on AI and ML. As Cloud Developer Advocate, Dmitry focuses on creating educational content and working with academic and research institutions. He is also an Associate Professor at MIPT, HSE and MAI in Moscow, a big fan of functional programming and F#, and a maintainer/primary developer of mPyPl library. In his spare time, Dmitry explores Science Art and Technological Magic, as well as performs Chinese tea ceremonies. He can be reached at soshnikov.com.

Dipanjan (DJ) Sarkar is a Data Science Lead at Applied Materials, leading advanced analytics efforts around computer vision, natural language processing and deep learning. He is also a Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning. He has also been recently recognized as one of the Top Ten Data Scientists in India, 2020 by Analytics India Magazine & TechGig. Dipanjan has advised and worked with several startups as well as Fortune 500 companies like Intel and Open Source organizations like Red Hat (now IBM). He primarily works on leveraging data science, machine learning and deep learning to build large- scale intelligent systems and evangelizing data science to the community. Dipanjan is also a published author, having authored several books on R, Python, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning.

Software Engineer with over a decade of industry experience in developing reliable and scalable software systems. Specialities & Interests: Distributed Systems, Server Engineering, API Design, System Architecture, Data Modeling, Caching Solutions, Databases, Algorithms, Server Infrastructure and Operations.

After working as a science teacher for a few years, Sylvana transitioned into software engineering as a means to provide a quality education to all learners. She began her career as an apprentice at Codecademy and is now a software engineer at the company. During her time at Codecademy, she has gained experience with React, Next.js, and Typescript and has led initiatives like the tech reading club and dev workshops.

Samuel Pinto is a Frontend Engineer since 2013, he has been working with large using facing applications in companies like Microsoft, Bumble, and OLX. He worked from 5 different countries and loves to be involved and learn new cultures.

Sohan is a Lead Developer Advocate at AuthZed, based in the Netherlands. He started his career as a developer building mobile apps and has been living in the cloud since 2013, in companies such as Amazon, Fermyon and Gupshup. He is also an O' Reilly author, having created a course on Cloud Concepts for Everyone. He has always been interested in emerging technologies and how it shapes the world around us.

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.

Jordan is the frontend technical lead at Mysten Labs. He is passionate about Taco Bell and TypeScript.

Frontend Engineer working at Docplanner. Passionate about Web technologies, JavaScript and Vue.js. Founder of Escuela Vue (http://www.escuelavue.es/). Voracious reader of ancient history and philosophy (Stoicism).

Game developer with a healthy curiosity for the web. Worked at Wooga for a few years, then freelanced in several game studios. Now in charge of making tech work at PlayPack here in Berlin.

John joined React Flow in 2022 and takes care of the documentation, communication and community.

Performance testing specialist with 7 years of experience delivering reliable and scalable applications. I design and implement performance testing strategies from scratch, identify bottlenecks, and provide actionable insights that improve system stability and user experience. Skilled in JMeter, BlazeMeter, Grafana, InfluxDB, Jenkins/TeamCity, and cloud environments (AWS, Azure). Experienced with monitoring and observability tools like Kibana, Telegraf, and Zabbix, enabling proactive issue detection and performance optimization. I help teams ensure their applications handle real-world traffic efficiently, reduce downtime, and meet business performance goals.

Siriwong is an Engineer Manager at Coinbase. He enjoys working on products in the latest technology space. Previously, he worked at Facebook in News feed, Videos, and Portal. At Coinbase, he leads the team to innovate in the Crypto space.

Author of RescriptRelay and host of RelayMeetup.com. Partner at Arizon, a Swedish IT-consultancy and startup incubator. Loving GraphQL, Relay and ReScript.