JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

Nick Teets is a software developer and musician based in Denver. Nick found his passion for connecting people using technology after spending summers in the Sandhills of Nebraska establishing a multimedia journalism nonprofit. Through an interactive website, the project told the stories of the communities of the area with audio, video, photos, and text. This early foray in journalism taught him about the intersection of empathy, technology, and storytelling, and would lead him to a career in frontend software development, creating beautiful and accessible user experiences to connect people across the world.

Senior Software Engineer and consultant in Tektit Consulting. IT trainer at Infoshare Academy. Previously worked on Jira Cloud and Atlassian Forge. He talks and records stuff on Front-end and WebDevelopment related stuff.

Roy Tal is a cloud and DevOps enthusiast who loves to build tool that will make infrastructure operations better for everyone. Today he is a team leader and founding team member at Firefly who are helping solve infrastructure drift in large-scale cloud operations. Before that he served as a backend developer at Dome9, building better security practices into cloud operations, that has been acquired by Check Point.

Software Engineer @Sentry

Developer specializing in building human-centered applications in healthcare. My experience spans from leading design direction for large medical sites serving over 40,000+ patients daily to creating full-stack applications that directly impact thousands of practitioners across the nation. Creating content around the intersection of technology and healthcare.

Liang Gong works at Meta on building and optimizing web and developer infrastructure, with a focus on improving performance, memory efficiency, reliability, and user engagement. He is the creator of the open-source project MemLab and holds a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley, where his research was in the area of programming languages, software engineering, and JavaScript program analysis.

John Robert is a Senior Data & Machine Learning Engineer at Sunnic Lighthouse (Enerparc AG), working at the intersection of data engineering, machine learning, and cloud platforms. He previously contributed to autonomous driving projects at Bosch and Mercedes-Benz, gaining hands-on experience with safety-critical AI systems. John is a frequent speaker at conferences such as PyCon, PyData, and Data Native, with a focus on AI safety, transparency, and trustworthy machine learning. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling and building projects like PetWorld+ and SpreadsheetProAI, etc

Senior Full Stack Engineer @Factify With a great passion for designing for scale, understanding how things work and public speaking. I enjoy building systems that are both elegant and performant. When I'm not behind a keyboard, I'm probably surfing or playing guitar.

Douglas has been working at Codeminer42 since 2020, taking part in several projects since then, tailoring solutions and providing consultancy on customer's systems. Worked in systems that required queue management for data fetching and ingestion, and scheduling tasks, from financial and blockchain-related solutions to e-commerce platforms.

Richard is a Senior Software Engineer at Sentry on the Issues team, where his recent projects include redesigning the Issues UI and creating LLM-based Issue Detection. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, skiing, and being disappointed in the Ferrari F1 team.

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.

Todd Schiller is co-founder and CEO of PixieBrix. He’s spent the past 15 years building AI, data science, and software engineering tools for large enterprises and hedge funds. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

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.

Ryan has been building for the web for 25 years. He created rari, a React Server Components framework running on a Rust runtime that delivers 46.5x higher throughput and 9.1x faster response times than Next.js. He believes performance shouldn't be an afterthought and that the web deserves frameworks that are both fast and beautiful to work with.

I'm a frontend developer currently @ Meta. I love making cool things on the web with a focus on performant, satisfying UX. Recently moved to London to build a brand new AI-powered design system for WhatsApp.

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.

Senior Front End Developer @Shopify

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 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 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).

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 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.

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.