JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Dirk-Willem van Gulik is one of the internet engineers behind the world wide web and of the founding fathers of the apache web server. He was the President of the Apache Software Foundation during its first 10 years. He has worked for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, the United Nations, telecommunications firms, several satellite & space agencies and founded several startups. He participated in different international standards bodies, such as the IETF and W3C on metadata, GIS, PKI, Security, Architecture and Internet standard since the early days. He build the initial engineering team at the very first ‘webserver’ startup: Covalent, helped make big-data and the semantic web reality at Asemantics and created the first first instant play P2P viewer at joost.com. He was the Chief Technical Architect at the BBC where he shaped the audience facing development-delivery platform Forge in the time for the 2020 Olympics and where he made information security and compliance a core enabler for business processes. He provides technical due diligence to investors and assists companies with their technology; taking an (interim) CTO role where needed. He currently works on several medical and privacy intensive security projects with a heavy emphasis on Architecture and Governance. During the Corona crisis he assisted the Ministry of Health of the Netherlands, the EU and the UN with the `CoronaMelder'; where opensource, cryptography and security-by-design helped build trust. And, more recently has spend waay to much time in Brussels on the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and the Product Liability Directive (PLD) as Europe brings in significant regulation of IT and Open Source. When not at work, he loves to sail or hang out with the lovely people at his local https://makerspaceLeiden.nl.

Emily is a lead software engineer based out of Pittsburgh, USA. She's a lifelong learner, adjunct professor, and IoT enthusiast. Emily has a tech background in healthcare, robotics, and more recently, bringing local food to the masses at Harvie. In her spare time, you can find Emily working on her web agency startup, scuba diving, or trying her hand at landscape photography.

Ava Wroten has been building ambitious EmberJS apps for over eight years. She's built health education software at Eyemaginations (now called Rendia), banking and account opening software at Q2, budgeting software for K-12 educators at Allovue, and now she is connecting students to employers at SkillsEngine. With a passion for frontend web apps, Ava is excited for the future of the web as a platform to deliver innovation that betters people's everyday lives.

Nouha is the Developer Experience Manager at Prismic. She currently manages a team of developer experience engineers, and spending a lot of time on recruiting and growing her team. This year she'll recruit over 15 people to join her team. She'll share some advice for those of you preparing for technical interviews, and will be able to describe what is a Developer Experience Engineer, a Developer Relations Engineer, a Dev Blogger, a Dev Streamer.

m4dz is a curious animal. Former Frontend Dev, Devtools enthusiast, he has made the Developer eXperience (DX) his cherished topic. All the technologies are under his radar to get things ever simpler. His moto: "Developers are users just like you." As a life-long dreamer his favorite book will ever remains "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".

Andy Kuszyk is a Staff Engineer at Typeform, an occasional blog author, and an Emacs enthusiast! He's mostly worked in backend systems with the likes of Go, Terraform, and Kubernetes, but also enjoys thinking about the way teams work, communicate, and transfer knowledge.

Gil Friedman is Field CTO at Backslash Security, where he focuses on securing modern software development in the age of AI-driven coding. Prior to Backslash, he spent years leading engineering teams at Meta and SAP/Concur, building and scaling large, distributed systems and developer platforms used by millions. That hands-on experience shaped his perspective on AI-driven development—ensuring that innovation moves fast without compromising security, enterprise data, or developer environments.

Livecoder, music technologist, educator. creative coding for sound, visuals and algorithmic compositions. maxmsp, jitter, javascript, pd, p5.js, mercury.

Alem Tuzlak is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Founder of Code Forge. He builds open-source tooling and products in the TanStack ecosystem and React Router/Remix, and is known for creating developer-focused libraries and devtools that help teams build, debug, and ship faster. He is best known for his work on TanStack AI & TanStack Devtools. Alongside his engineering work, Alem teaches and shares practical insights through workshops, writing, YouTube and community work.

Trish Ta is a Staff Developer Shopify with over 9 years of experience working on web applications. She started her career in creating software for data visualization. She is currently working on front-end libraries that empower developers to build cool things on top of Shopify’s platform.

The scripted part: Experienced and results-driven Customer Success Manager with a proven track record of driving customer satisfaction, retention, and revenue growth. I am passionate about building strong relationships with customers and helping them achieve their goals based on outcomes-based thinking and maximizing the value they derive from products or services. Unscripted: I am an empath, product nerd, people nerd, and a consultant/coach. My background in business, marketing, tech, and SaaS, allows me to bring a lot of great ideas and discussion to the CSM table. One can often find me learning AI, metrics, psychology, and trying to continually answer the question, "what can CSMs do to help customers solve real problems while also seeing future value in a product or service?"

I build product marketing and sales enablement organizations at technical start-ups and scale ups. I have experience in cybersecurity, DevSecOps, computer networking and MarTech.

Vijay has been building software professionally for 20 years, focusing mostly on full-stack and backend development for the first half of his career before transitioning into data engineering and applied data science roles, and eventually into engineering leadership. Today at Demandbase he heads up two of the main application groups - supporting Account Based Experience and Advertising - as well as leading the Core and Shared Services platform team.

Akshay Ranganath is a Solution Architect at Cloudinary responsible for bringing customers on-board, helping them create work-flow for media management and media delivery. While not working, you'll find him holding camera and indulging in some photography.

Developer at Nexapp for 9 years, Alexandre has supported more than a dozen clients in the development and design of their products. As a senior frontend developer, he ensures he stays up to date with the latest development practices. In recent years, he has taken a particular interest in the educational aspect of his work through training and mentoring. What motivates him on a daily basis is sharing his experiences and learnings with his colleagues and clients.

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

Backed by 15 years of architecting, developing, and managing software teams, I’m an experienced software EM, based in London. My passion is building a great team culture, and delivering through lean & agile frameworks.

Nitin is a dynamic Full Stack SDE 2 at Expedia Group, India, who thrives on crafting exceptional web experiences. Over the years, he’s worked his magic on projects for Marriott, H&M, Expedia, and more. While React is his go-to tool, his tech arsenal also includes Swift, Kotlin, Spring Boot, GraphQL, and a bunch of other developer superpowers. Known for his love of dev jokes and pun-packed humor, he’s the kind of colleague who keeps both the codebase and the conversations lively. When he’s not coding, Nitin is either jet-setting to new destinations, smashing shuttlecocks on the badminton court, or jamming out while learning the drums. A fun mix of tech wizardry and good vibes, he’s always up for an adventure—be it debugging or backpacking!

Tiki Lobel is a fintech software developer who leads a team at Rapyd to liberate global commerce and connect the world’s disparate payment systems into a single integrated network. Her team focuses on core API development and Tiki’s ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously, and her understanding of complex dependencies within a larger system, make her an integral part of all product development in the company.

Matija is currently a Director of Engineering at Workera, an AI-powered skills intelligence platform for enterprise workflows. At Workera, he leads teams that create assessments based on enterprise knowledge bases and evaluate employees' skills to guide further upskilling. Over the past 12 years, he has held various leadership roles in product and engineering across the financial, semiconductor, and education technology sectors. The main tech questions he enjoys solving are: “How can we get people to play to each other’s strengths?” and “How can we encode architecture so it doesn’t live only in a document or in people’s minds?” After work, his time is delightfully filled with being a parent to two young children, biking, swimming, following F1, and playing his current favorite game: GeoGuessr.

Former Coding bootcamp instructor, Oracle cloud engineer, and current AWS developer working with Agentic AI. Transitioned career from biomedical sciences into tech after college. Passionate about developer productivity and success.

Goran is the CTO and Co-founder of syntheticAIdata, a startup company dedicated to democratising the vision AI market by providing affordable and accessible synthetic data. With over 20 years of work experience in IT and a deep understanding of various technologies, Goran worked as an engineering and technical manager, among other roles, developing IT strategies and solutions for well-known clients. Goran is a tech enthusiast, he writes technical blog posts and he likes to share his knowledge at conferences, workshops, and meetups. He is recognised as Microsoft AI Most Valuable Professional (AI MVP), and his projects have been highlighted on websites such as Forbes, The Next Web, NVIDIA Developer, TechCrunch, and others.

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).

Max Strivens - Solutions Engineer at StackOne - We are a unified integration provider and integration layer for AI.