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!
Yevhen Treiher
Yevhen Treiher
UX News, Barcelona
Senior Product Designer at FUIB and founder of ux-news.com
Michael Hoffmann
Michael Hoffmann
Freelancer, Germany
Senior Frontend Developer & Freelancer
Goran Vuksic
Goran Vuksic
syntheticAIdata, Sweden
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.
Jannik Sommerfeld
Jannik Sommerfeld
Team One Developers GmbH, Germany
As a software developer with a rich background in successful agile projects, I value constructive, harmonious, and proactive communication. I enjoy the opportunities and freedoms that the ECMAScript world offers. At the same time, I embrace self-chosen guidelines that we can establish through the use of TypeScript. I am 30 years old, father of a new born and I am excited to teach and to learn.
Benjamin Schachter
Benjamin Schachter
treasure it, USA
Benjamin Schachter is a software engineer based in Brooklyn, NY and founder of treasure it, a platform to get and give things for free. He loves React Native and Typescript.
David Burrowes
David Burrowes
Split.io, USA
David Burrowes is a software engineer at Split.io with a decade of experience developing web applications for companies like Box, Delphix, and VMware. Having worked without feature flags, and with clunky in-house feature flagging frameworks, David is deliriously happy to have all of Split's capabilities at his disposal for every project. For fun, and to prove he’s more Star Trek than Star Wars, David likes to randomly quote large sections for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Max McCrea
Max McCrea
Monadical, USA
Max is the technical co-founder of Monadical, a software development consultancy focused on emerging technologies and AI solutions, and Developer Capital, an early stage AI investment corp.
Maxim Nam
Maxim Nam
Tele2, Kazakhstan
Tele2 Kazakhstan, Front-end TeamLead, 10 years of web development, in love with project transformation and refactoring React based applications.
Itai Hanski
Itai Hanski
Descope, Israel
For more than twelve years, Itai has been creating on the full spectrum of software development. Anything from simple POCs to intricately complex systems, from native mobile development to fully fledged backend architecture, from libraries and SDKs to client facing applications.
James Arthur
James Arthur
ElectricSQL, Croatia
James is Co-Founder and CEO of ElectricSQL. Prior to founding Electric, he co-founded the Post Urban venture builder and was co-founder and CTO of synthetic data company Hazy.
Joyee Cheung
Joyee Cheung
Igalia, China
Joyee works on the compilers team at Igalia. She is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee and a V8 committer.
David Chicaiza
David Chicaiza
Ataccama, Czech Republic
David Chicaiza is a senior front-end engineer from Bogotá, Colombia, and a React, NodeJS, and TypeScript enthusiast. He is currently based in Prague, creating data management solutions at Ataccama. David brings a blend of technical skills and public engagement to his role as an MC. When he's not working on software solutions, you might find him making music, playing chess, or traveling.
Rob Sutter
Rob Sutter
Fauna, USA
I have woven application development into my entire career, from time in the U.S. Army and U.S. Government to stints with the Big Four, the world's largest cloud services provider, and smaller startups. I have started my own company – twice – once providing consulting services and most recently with WorkFone, a software as a service startup that provided virtual digital identities to government clients. I love to build in public with Go and all things serverless!
Abdelrhman Adel
Abdelrhman Adel
Rangle, Netherlands
Abdelrhman Adel is an Amsterdam-based Solution Architect at Rangle.io, helping clients build better software experiences using technologies such as Angular, React, and Typescript. Once a Petroleum Engineer, he switched career paths to follow his passion for technology and improving user experiences. When he’s not working, you can find him gaming or binge-watching a new TV series.
Darshita Chaturvedi
Darshita Chaturvedi
Atri Labs, USA
Darshita Chaturvedi is the Co-Founder & CEO of Atri Labs where she is leading the development of a new full-stack framework for web development. She has five years of experience working in Machine Learning and Data Science fields in various capacities from Graduate Research Assistant at MIT (USA) to Quant Researcher at BlackRock, a US headquartered asset management firm. She completed her undergraduate education in Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India, and dropped out from graduate program in management at MIT Sloan to work on her startup full-time. Her favorite past times are painting and learning art history.
Simon Waterer
Simon Waterer
Sourcegraph, UK
Simon Waterer is a Customer Engineer at Sourcegraph. He has worked across a range of technologies including object and NoSQL databases, high performance computing and distributed platforms including Kubernetes and Mesos. Outside of technology, he likes most sports but especially cricket, rugby and F1. And loves spending time outdoors with his dog.
Eran Hammer
Eran Hammer
Sideway Inc, USA
Hapi.js contributor
Taylor Mull
Taylor Mull
Yugabyte, USA
Taylor is a Solutions Engineer who leads the new Yugabyte Cloud sales engineering effort helping small and large companies alike modernize their legacy databases. He has a strong passion for distributed databases having worked with them for most of his career.
Eeva-Jonna 'Eevis' Panula
Eeva-Jonna 'Eevis' Panula
Futurice, Finland
Eevis is a software developer and accessibility specialist based in Finland. She loves sharing information about topics like accessibility, React and GraphQL, and is active in different communities aiming to increase equality in the tech field in Finland. When not coding, she explores the world around her with a kayak.
Robert Hostlowsky
Robert Hostlowsky
Instana, Germany
Currently, Robert Hostlowsky is working as a developer, coach and systems engineer. He published an online video course about developing a full-stack GraphQL application online-course. He loves DevOps culture on modern cloud infrastructure, uses the latest state-of-the-art web technologies, and loves how it plays nicely together at minimum effort and cost. He loves web technologies. Feeling being a part of the developer community he is co-organizing the JSCraftcamp, Munich.
Katarzyna Wojdalska
Katarzyna Wojdalska
ec0lint, Poland
Katarzyna is the Co-founder and CEO of ec0lint - a tool for frontend developers that mitigates the carbon footprint of websites. On top of that, she works as a Project Manager in the nanotechnology company Nanores. Her focus lies on diamonds and vacuum sensors. Katarzyna enjoys cooking Asian food and visiting art exhibitions in her free time.
Bob van Luijt
Bob van Luijt
Weaviate, Netherlands
Bob is CEO and co-founder of SeMI Technologies, the business created around the open-source vector search engine Weaviate. Besides SeMI and Weaviate. Bob is a frequent speaker on the topics of open source, digital technology, software business, and creativity. He has spoken at around 100 events on the aforementioned topics in Europe, the US, and Russia.
Rebecca Friedman
Rebecca Friedman
Shopify, Canada
I am a strong full stack developer, and a Ruby on Rails enthusiast. I'm passionate about formalized SDL processes, and clean, well-tested code. Having worked on the monolith that is the Words With Friends backend service at Zynga, I've architected, developed and deployed features that have been used by millions of concurrent users. I'm a huge supporter of University of Toronto, and an Arbor Award recipient. I guest lecture when I can, mentor students through the Alumni Mentorship program, and volunteer at numerous interview prep workshops, panels, and networking events for students.
 Greg MacWilliam
Greg MacWilliam
Shopify, USA
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.