JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ava Wroten has been building ambitious EmberJS apps for over eight years. She's built health education software at Eyemaginations (now called Rendia), banking and account opening software at Q2, budgeting software for K-12 educators at Allovue, and now she is connecting students to employers at SkillsEngine. With a passion for frontend web apps, Ava is excited for the future of the web as a platform to deliver innovation that betters people's everyday lives.

Nouha is the Developer Experience Manager at Prismic. She currently manages a team of developer experience engineers, and spending a lot of time on recruiting and growing her team. This year she'll recruit over 15 people to join her team. She'll share some advice for those of you preparing for technical interviews, and will be able to describe what is a Developer Experience Engineer, a Developer Relations Engineer, a Dev Blogger, a Dev Streamer.

I currently work at ByteDance as an Engineering Lead for E-Commerce payments system software driving the business of TikTokShop product in the US. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Masters degree and Vellore Institute of Technology with a Bachelor's degree. I’m a seasoned Silicon Valley professional in the Payments domain with proven engineering expertise for 10+ years. I pioneered the Software Engineering marvel resulting in the increase of user count of products by about 800 times in less than 6 months, generating kick-start revenue of $120k per week during 0 to 1 product growth, tripling the revenue from $5 billion to $14 billion in less than 5 years by getting over the plateau growth, for some of the prominent products in the world like iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, AWS Amplify, Amazon Alexa mobile app, TikTok shop and Oracle backend server supercluster. The by-products of these business results are multifold improvement in Engineering productivity and grooming myriad software professionals for world class companies like Apple, Amazon, Oracle, SanDisk.

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".

Trish Ta is a Staff Developer Shopify with over 9 years of experience working on web applications. She started her career in creating software for data visualization. She is currently working on front-end libraries that empower developers to build cool things on top of Shopify’s platform.

Software Engineer at Xebia. Creator of the Beyond Coding Podcast (40k+ subscribers), conference speaker, and educator who's passionate about connecting people and making tech events awesome!

The scripted part: Experienced and results-driven Customer Success Manager with a proven track record of driving customer satisfaction, retention, and revenue growth. I am passionate about building strong relationships with customers and helping them achieve their goals based on outcomes-based thinking and maximizing the value they derive from products or services. Unscripted: I am an empath, product nerd, people nerd, and a consultant/coach. My background in business, marketing, tech, and SaaS, allows me to bring a lot of great ideas and discussion to the CSM table. One can often find me learning AI, metrics, psychology, and trying to continually answer the question, "what can CSMs do to help customers solve real problems while also seeing future value in a product or service?"

Sofia leads end-to-end product teams building services and customer experiences in a distributed architecture. She cares deeply about creating environments where engineers can do their best work. Outside of work, she co-hosts Developers!, one of Sweden’s most popular software podcasts.

Bogdana is an Engineering Manager at Zoopla, where she leads teams in building scalable, high-impact technology solutions. Over the past nine years, she has grown from an eager engineering intern into a thoughtful leader passionate about people, process, and continuous improvement. Her career spans both fast-paced startups and large organizations, giving her a broad perspective on how teams thrive in different environments. Beyond her day-to-day work, Bogdana is dedicated to supporting the next generation of technologists. She has taught at coding bootcamps and apprenticeships, guided students in launching their careers, and was an instructor for Code First Girls. Driven by curiosity and a focus on growth, Bogdana helps engineers find opportunities for learning and innovation in the fast-moving world of tech.

I build product marketing and sales enablement organizations at technical start-ups and scale ups. I have experience in cybersecurity, DevSecOps, computer networking and MarTech.

Steven has 13+ years of industry experiance as an engineer, tech lead, interim CTO, technical co-founder and technical consulting. Starting out as a software engineer and moving quickly to tech lead and consulting to building digital venture teams across London. Most two roles have been Head of Technology and Head of AI/Developemnt for two multinational companies. Day to day activies focused around research, development and integration of new tools and workflows for engineering teams, hiring and training the next generation of developers and building modern sustainable software.

Francisco Gomes is a Tech Lead, building large-scale microservices systems. His work spans engineering standards, developer enablement, security, compliance, and architecture across modern stacks including cloud, frontend, backend, and AI. Beyond industry, he has taught aspiring engineers from over 20 countries, mentoring the next generation of software developers.

I am a software engineer with more than 8 years of experience. Over the last 5 years, I’ve worked with a wide range of companies, from start-ups to Fortune 500. I specialize in E-Commerce and am passionate about UX and AI.

Lenny is a Solutions Architect at Apollo Graph in San Francisco, CA. He was previously a software engineer and graph champion at Square. When he’s not thinking and talking endlessly about GraphQL and frontend, he’s probably trying to recreate some dish from a YouTube cooking video or hanging out with his wife and son.