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Jaxon has 25 years of experience architecting, designing, and developing enterprise software. He is the founder of three technology startups and has consulted with multiple Fortune 500 companies on IoT and Digital Transformation initiatives. A partially-reformed developer, he understands what it’s like to wrestle with technology instead of benefiting from it, and believes passionately that if the Jetsons never had an episode where a config file error brought down the food-o-matic, it surely should not be a problem now.

Thomas is a software engineer in the GraphQL team at Neo4j where he usually works with Javascript, Typescript, Cypher, and of course GraphQL. Prior to joining the GraphQL team, Thomas was part of the team who builds Neo4j’s graph visualization product, Bloom. Whenever he closes the laptop for the day he makes sure to get out in nature, do all kinds of sports and read a good book.

Jean grew up in France, where he studied computer science and got his master’s degree from the Université de Technology de Compiègne, where he grew fond of web technologies. He moved to Berlin in 2016 and started working with vanilla JavaScript, jQuery, and Angular1 until he discovered React and thought, “Wow, this is how web apps should be built.” Those days he worked mainly with React at Babbel (the best learning language app! 😜)and loves creating enticing user experiences on the web, he has a soft spot for animations and delightful interactivity. In his free time, he loves to cook, make cocktails (ask for advice at your own risk), and play escape/board games.

My name is Zoe Steinkamp and I am a Developer Advocate for influxData. I was a front end software engineer for over 6 years before I moved into a developer advocate role. I have been with InfluxDB for over 3 years and i look forward to sharing my knowledge of the platform and databases. I enjoy learning about awesome new technologies and doing at home tech projects to help make my life as well as other peoples lives easier. My passions besides new technology include traveling and gardening.

Zach is a builder for the web. He created Eleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator now full-time sponsored by Netlify. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 62 talks in eight different countries at events like Jamstack Conf, Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS.

Self taught frontend developer from India who loves to tinker around with modern web technologies, College student & currently working at timeless.co

Jason Santos is a Senior Solution Architect at Rangle.io, where he is responsible for mentoring teams, understanding problems, finding solutions, and providing technical expertise to different projects. In the few years he has been at Rangle, he was able to contribute to the success of large projects in the Banking, Healthcare and Electronic Payment spaces, helping shape Enterprise architecture, leading teams and implementing full stack solutions using NodeJS microservices and cloud-native technologies, as well as both Angular and React. He brings with him 30 years of experience in building software across multiple languages and environments, from embedded software to IDEs and Debugging tools -- designing and implementing software frameworks and building applications on both back-end and front-end since the late 1990s. Being a certified SAFe Agilist, Jason is a strong advocate of process improvement, DevOps and agile delivery practices; he is also passionate about knowledge sharing and mentoring other developers.

Senior Software Engineer @ StackHawk

Ryan Albrecht is a frontend engineer at Sentry working on Session Replays. He’s built products and tools focusing on usability, engagement, and performance and now works at Sentry to improve workflows for developers.

As a youngster, I had an early interest in computers. I quickly learned to disassemble and reassemble my family's Tandy 1000 without much effort. This passion only grew as I got older. In college, I became very interested in helping to bridge the growing digital divide and started a student organization, Tech Serv, at Drexel University. After college, I started my career as a data analyst but quickly found a career in Product Management. Here, I was able to combine my love for technology with my passion for improving the lives of others. Since that time, I've been a product manager in a variety of industries including MarTech and HealthTech. Now at Docker, I hope to continue on my journey by improving the lives of developers and helping solve their daily challenges.

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

As CTO and Co-Founder, Connell oversees Zapworks (Zappar’s AR, VR & WebXR platform) as well as being responsible for all cloud infrastructure. Connell founded Zappar in 2011, alongside Dr. Simon Taylor, Caspar Thykier and Kirk Ewing and is one of the world's leading XR Platforms and creative studios. More recently, Connell and the team launched Zapvision, an app and SDK that's helping people who are blind or have low vision to access product information on packaging through a single Accessible QR code.

Alex is an experienced marketer and screenwriter with over 10 years of experience. A natural storyteller, Alex spends her free time writing novels and screenplays and is driven through a constant need to be constantly learning professionally and personally. Originally from Texas, she has lived in New York City, and now Berlin, Germany.

A Computer Engineering MSc on Big Data and Cloud Computing with Hadoop and Hive at METU (Middle East Technical University). Here is my summary: * Big data and Cloud computing architect/researcher/developer * Low-level Java and JVM researcher/developer/hacker * AWS Technical and Business Consulting Partner * "Off-Heap Storage" and "Bytecode Instrumentation" Ninja * Oracle OpenSource Contributor * PhD candidate about Indexing on Hadoop and Hive * Always thinking on open-source project ideas

Alex Astrum is a passionate builder working in Developer Relations at Google’s Firebase, where he helps teams ship production-grade AI features with Genkit, Vertex AI, and Firebase Studio. He authored Firebase codelabs on Genkit and Gemini Extensions. He enjoys presenting live workshops and volunteering at hackathons. His current focus is around the transformational potential of AI in the app building space.

Antoine is a Software Engineer from France, working for Transloadit. His love for everything open source brought him to GitHub at an early age, and he has been a regular visitor and contributor ever since. He serves as a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, the esteemed governing body that oversees the popular runtime environment. When Antoine is not channeling his creative energy into technical projects, he enjoys playing the piano.

Alex Hawker is a Software Engineer on the GameSnacks team at Google, where he works on bringing exciting new experiences to the web gaming space. Before that, he worked to bring new GIF features to Gboard, Google’s virtual keyboard.

Richard is a Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS focusing on Application modernization using Serverless and Containers. During his 3-year tenure at AWS he has played a pivotal role assisting partners & customers in various industries with their cloud adoption and modernization strategies. Richard collaborates with the development teams and engineering leaders to optimize software delivery in the cloud, emphasizing best practices and AWS's capabilities.

Marissa Masangcay is a Technical Marketing Specialist for Cloudinary and has worked for the company since 2017. She has also served as one of Cloudinary’s Developer Support Engineers, where she responded to customers’ technical support requests and feature-related questions, as well as debugged customer issues and wrote code samples in multiple development frameworks. She has also served as a volunteer instructor for Girls Who Code, which is a nonprofit dedicated to teaching girls in grades 6-12 the fundamentals of coding. Marissa graduated with her bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of San Francisco.

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.

Oguzhan is a person whose passion is learning. He is self-motivated about discovering his unknown unknowns and autodidactic to move forward in this path. His primary motivation is to keep his technical breadth at the highest level it can be. Because Oguzhan believes that in each particular field, there is something he will learn that he won't be able to grasp anywhere else. In the past, Oguzhan dropped out of Nuclear Engineering to pursue his passion and enjoy what he does for a living. He mainly worked as a Backend Engineer and shifted toward the Cloud. Oguzhan is currently working as an Infrastructure Engineer and is quite optimistic about his career. He is aiming for better, non-stop.

Megan is a Developer Advocate at Shopify, focusing on our and Apps and Hydrogen. She is new to Shopify, but brings over 6 years of experience building software; anything from NLP to iOS AR apps she’s tried it. Now she’s found a home in the JS web app space.

Greg is presently focused on web applications built using Ruby on Rails, VueJS, Webpack, and JavaScript. He is also experienced with HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, responsive design practices, and visualizing large data sets using SVG, Canvas, and major web mapping frameworks. He is also fluent with RESTful and GraphQL API design, Django, Rails, Node, and some WordPress experience. Additional programming experience with iOS/Objective-C for iPhone, Flash/ActionScript3, and object-oriented design practices. Familiar with agile software development and SCRUM workflow; experienced with providing estimates. Current side projects include EpoxyJS (data binding extension for Backbone), ConstellationJS (a grid-based geometry toolkit), and the HTML5/Django-based Lassie Constellation admin system.