JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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".

Tom is the Chief Product Officer at Vercel leading Engineering, Product, and Design. Previously he spent over 12 years at Facebook where he led development of the company’s core JavaScript Infra, shaped its open source program, and was responsible for the creation and development of React and React Native. He enjoys traveling, dance music, fancy cocktails, and simple food.

Backend Software Engineer for +10 years in industries such as telco, online betting, and financing, embraced the passion for leading and caring for people 3 years ago, being now at OLX Group as Engineering Manager.

Ewa is a Developer Relations Engineer in the Google Chrome team. She is a passionate frontend engineer deeply involved in the development of new Chrome and Web Platform features. Driven by a desire to empower developers, she focuses on creating tools and improvements that streamline workflows and enhance the overall web development experience.

Alex Shershebnev is a seasoned Computer Vision and MLOps Engineer with over nine years of experience shaping the future of AI-driven software development. Currently, Alex leads the ML/DevOps team at Zencoder, where he leverages his extensive background in Software Engineering, ML and DevOps to deliver high-quality machine learning solutions. His work spans complex data pipelines, cloud infrastructure management (GCP, Kubernetes), and advanced ML/DevOps pipelines, ensuring scalability and efficiency.

Sam is the cofounder/CTO at Oso working on making security more accessible for developers. Sam previously got a PhD in Cryptography and was a contributor to TLS 1.3

Theo is a full stack designer, developer, and entrepreneur, passionate about dev tools and building simple solutions to complex problems. He's worked in a range of industries for companies like Breather, System Initiative, and Clay.

Arsalan Khattak is a Developer Advocate passionate about modern web technologies. He has created content for GitHub Education and spoken at major events like Google DevFest and Microsoft Reactor. Beyond tech, Arsalan is an adventurer and motorcycle enthusiast.

Anna is a visionary, performance-driven marketing professional with a decade of experience building and leading dynamic marketing teams at technology companies. Anna holds a steadfast belief that the evolution of technology paves the way for societal progress and reinforces the essence of humanitarian ideals. Skilled in harnessing the power of artificial intelligence in marketing, she sees it as a key to enhancing outcomes while streamlining resources and efforts. WomenInTech Mentor helping women break into the tech field with expert mentoring advice and support.

Software developer with more than 20 years of professional experience. Team member of Vite and Svelte.

Daniel is a software engineer with a background in first, local, and then international and VC-backed startups. He's now the lead engineer at Reckon Digital, where he directs and coordinates several projects with clients such as the UN's World Food Programme.

My name is Andy O'Neil, and I help entrepreneurs add time-saving automation to their businesses through a process called co-building. This is a 1-on-1 process where I assist business owners in building automations over Zoom calls. Each session is personalized to meet the specific needs of the business owner and their business automation requirements. I have been creating no-code processes and automations since 2006, even before the term "no-code" was widely used. I have a passion for teaching entrepreneurs how to automate their businesses using Make.com, which is why I focus on co-building. My goal is to empower people to understand and control the automation processes in their businesses. I have been married for 21 years and have four beautiful children who keep my wife and me very busy.

Mikhail is a seasoned developer and tech leader with track record of working with both large companies across EU and small startups. Mikhail is passionate about new technologies and loves to share his knowledge with the world.

Gabriel is a Node.js core collaborator, TSC member emeritus, and a member of the Node API working group with a passion for improving performance. Formerly of Nokia, Intel, and SpaceX, currently at Auction.com.

Wowa Effect aka Wowa Barssukov revives the art of creating music with knowledge and analog instruments. His unique tracks originate from a combination of retro synthesizers, drum machines, and samplers. He transcends mood into music, no exact recreation possible when playing live; all sounds originated by hand. His debut performances were underground raves and house parties in 2018. His musical knowledge is based on classical Russian music education. Growing up in Siberia in the ’90s, his childhood was filled with communism, the sense of upheaval, and the upcoming of an underground raver scene. He started his electronic music journey under the name ‘Limpfate’ in 2017 first by creating his tracks with Ableton Live, until growing bored of the unengaging production. He then discovered analog synthesizers and drum machines, which shaped the sound of the electronic music scene in the ’90s, and spent countless hours on mastering the complex devices. This art of performing allows Wowa to explore the vast horizon of electronic music. Therefore his sounds vary from ecstatic electro over the groovy house to deep techno. His tracks take the listeners on journeys through the unknown, full of surprising details. When watching Wowa perform, you will notice a set of blinking lights, cables, and his straight face. When Wowa plays, it’s without exception, live. Wowa now lives in Berlin, close to the pulse of the original German techno scene with its renowned Berghain.

Dario is a Systems Engineer working at Cloudflare, mainly focused on improving the developer experience for applications being built using JavaScript frameworks. This requires him to work with different tooling and teams in the JavaScript ecosystem, ranging from full-stack frameworks, to bundlers and dev servers, to the Cloudflare developer platform utilities. His goal being to enable developers to take full advantage of the advanced Cloudflare platform while being able to use their preferred technologies.

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 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.

Dara is a Software Engineer currently working at Spotify where she develops tools and services that provide internal teams with access to user account data. She began her career as a Frontend Engineer in the finance sector, and recently transitioned into full-stack development. With over 6 years of hands-on experience, Dara is particularly passionate about merging her creative and technical skills to design and build user-centric products that foster community. Outside of work, she loves to mentor other women who are at an early stage in their tech careers.

Generative AI Engineer and Product Manager, working in IT for the past 13 years. MSc. in AI Engineering. Founder of CEE AI Hub, AI venture building and local communities booster. I worked in corporates (Microsoft, Cisco) and startups (edrone, kontakt.io), finished my full-time working as a Product Director. I am helping companies implementing Generative AI features / products and building product (engineering) teams. IoT and homelab enthusiast. I own a vineyard

Filip graduated from Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb in 2017 and has started his careers at Infinum as JavaScript Engineer. Over the years, FIlip gathered knowledge of various Frontend topics, with focus on Angular, and became Angular Lead Engineer. Some more time passed and Filip started focusing more on soft-skills and became JavaScript Team Lead at Infinum, while still continuing to do Angular development and being involved in architecture-level decision-making. As for FIlip's personal interests and hobbies, he likes PC/Nintendo Switch Gaming, messing around with HiFi gear and mehcnical keyboards, and being a loving husband & father to his wife & child.

Dora Makszy, an experienced product design lead, focuses on seamless product delivery through efficient collaboration with cross-functional teams, especially developers. With over 17 years of international experience in various roles (developer, business analyst, manager and mainly a designer), she has a comprehensive understanding of the entire process.

dr. Robin Marx is a Web Performance Expert at Akamai Technologies. He focuses on the performance and workings of modern Web protocols like HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and QUIC and has been a contributor in the IETF QUIC working group for multiple years. Robin often talks about web performance at international conferences, making the complex situations more insightful to the wider public. On the weekends, he likes to hit other people with longswords.

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.