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!
Brandon Ward
Brandon Ward
StackHawk, USA
Brandon is a full stack engineer who finds enjoyment working with Kotlin. When not working, he frequently gets outside to snowboard or mountain bike. He also enjoys tinkering with smart home technology.
Catalin Pit
Catalin Pit
Software developer building on the web with TypeScript, React, Node.js, and more. Writer, YouTuber, and lifelong learner who enjoys sharing knowledge with others
Keren Kenzi
Keren Kenzi
Senior Software Engineer, Israel
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.
Łukasz Jaźwa
Łukasz Jaźwa
Workflow Builder SDK, Poland
Łukasz Jaźwa, CTO at Workflow Builder. Passionate about diagramming and algorithm design, with a strong focus on graph theory. Loves escaping to the mountains for a good trek after hours.
Omri Lavi
Omri Lavi
monday.com, Israel
Omri is a Tech Lead at monday.com with over a decade of industry experience. For the past several years, he has been part of the DevTools group, focused on building user-friendly, well-documented tools that enhance developer efficiency and satisfaction.
Kristopher  Baumgartner
Kristopher Baumgartner
Poimandres Collective, USA
React Three Fiber maintainer and web game dev enthusiast, creating open source web game technologies for everyone.
Bar Hofesh
Bar Hofesh
NeuraLegion, Israel
Co-Founder, CTO & Security Researcher at NeuraLegion. Developer and security researcher, I love playing with Neural networks and other ML tools. I'm interested in new programming languages and the potential they bring.
Gavin Ray
Gavin Ray
Hasura, USA
Full Stack Web Developer with expertise in all aspects of the web development life cycle, including requirements analysis, design, development and production support. Primary strengths are Node & Javascript (ES6, React, Vue), React Native, Ruby on Rails, Amazon Web Services/Heroku, and SQL + NoSQL Database Management.
Blazej Abel
Blazej Abel
Landingi, USA/Poland
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 :)
Paul Everitt
Paul Everitt
JetBrains, USA
Paul is the PyCharm/WebStorm Developer Advocate at JetBrains. Before that, Paul was a co-founder of Zope Corporation, taking the first open-source applications.
Cathryn Griffiths
Cathryn Griffiths
Shopify, Canada
Senior Front End Developer @Shopify
Luke Ehresman
Luke Ehresman
Gazelle, USA
Luke is the co-founder of Gazelle, an all-in-one business automation solution for piano technicians. He founded and bootstrapped the company in 2015, helping piano technicians around the world grow their businesses. Gazelle has customers in over 30 countries and is translated into 11 languages.
Juliette MacPhail
Juliette MacPhail
mabl, USA
Juliette MacPhail is a Product Manager at mabl, where she spends her time working on a low-code platform for simplifying test automation and helping teams ship high-quality software. She’s passionate about understanding core challenges in the test automation space and enabling the transition to quality engineering. As an active member of mabl’s DEI committee, she spends her spare time on initiatives related to accessibility, inclusivity, and mental health in the workplace.
Jenn Creighton
Jenn Creighton
Netflix, USA
Jenn Creighton is a senior software engineer at Netflix. She hosts Single Threaded Podcast. Organizer of Women of React 2020 conference & useReact.NYC meetup. Jenn lives in New York with her two cats and maintains a Home for Abandoned Succulents, Mismanaged Plants and Otherwise Ailing Flora. You can find her online - [@gurlcode](https://twitter.com/gurlcode).
Philip Fulcher
Philip Fulcher
Nx, USA
Philip Fulcher is a senior engineer with at Nx. He works with Fortune 500 clients to modernize their development practices with a monorepo approach. Philip lives in Colorado with his wife (who is much smarter than him) and two great kids.
Wesley Fuchter
Wesley Fuchter
Modus Create, Brazil
Wesley is a Senior Principal Engineer at Modus Create, with over 13 years of experience building cloud-native applications for web and mobile. Working as a tech leader he's spending most of his time working closely with engineering, product, and design to solve customers' business problems. His experience sits at the intersection of hands-on coding, innovation, and people management with a mix of experiences going from AWS, Java and TypeScript to startups, agile and lean practices.
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Simon Zhong
Simon Zhong
Sentry, USA
Simon Zhong is a Sales Engineer at Sentry with almost 10 years of experience in enterprise software. He attended the University of Edinburgh and is a graduate of University of California, Davis in Computer Science. He is an American born Chinese (ABC) who is a native English speaker with conversational proficiency in Cantonese.
Neil Manvar
Neil Manvar
Sentry, USA
Neil Manvar is an engineer dedicated to helping developers ship quality code quickly. In his free time, you can find him cycling, snowboarding, or cuddling with his dog. He currently works as a Solutions Engineering Manager at Sentry, an Application Monitoring software company that helps software teams discover, triage, and optimize the performance of their code.
Tom Papiernik
Tom Papiernik
Buddy, Poland
As a developer advocate and technical writer at Buddy, Tom takes his love for communication and passion for technology and uses them to break down complex ideas into bites that everyone can swallow. Having worked directly on open-source projects, he is equally passionate about the front and the back-end - be it React, Go, or Kubernetes. In his spare time, he's a guitar-wielding amateur musician who dreams of recording a platinum album.
Ivan Krutov
Ivan Krutov
Aerokube, Russia
Software engineer with 10+ years of Java and Golang development experience. Working with large-scale test infrastructure during last 7 years. Maintaining a big Selenium cluster with 5000+ parallel browsers.
Alyona Galyeva
Alyona Galyeva
LINKIT, Netherlands
I encourage others to see different perspectives and constructively break the rules. Observe - Optimize - Learn - Repeat is my work and life motto. Next to it, I found my joy in building and optimizing end-to-end Machine Learning Systems. Principal Data Solutions Engineer @ LINKIT Organizer (volunteer) @ PyLadies Amsterdam WaiACCELERATE Tech Mentor (volunteer) @ Women in AI
Yama Anin Aminof
Yama Anin Aminof
MyPart, Israel
Yama is a data scientist at MyPart, an Israeli startup in the music industry, developing algorithms and researching lyrical and musical song features. In her spare time, she gives tech talks at conferences and meetups (Geektime Code, PyData Tel Aviv, IsraelClouds); and mentors a group of developers through their first steps in the data science world as a part of Baot - Israel’s largest community of senior female engineers and computer scientists. Yama has a B.Sc in mathematics and physics from Tel Aviv University where she also expresses her passion for music by playing the saxophone in the TAU Wind Band.
Joel Chippindale
Joel Chippindale
Monkey’s Thumb, UK
Joel is a CTO Coach who supports start-up and scale-up CTOs to successfully and confidently navigate the changes in their roles as their businesses evolve. He has over 20 years experience building, scaling and leading software development teams, mainly in start-ups, where he held both CTO and COO roles.
Saurabh Dahal
Saurabh Dahal
AWS, USA
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.