JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Software Engineer with over a decade of industry experience in developing reliable and scalable software systems. Specialities & Interests: Distributed Systems, Server Engineering, API Design, System Architecture, Data Modeling, Caching Solutions, Databases, Algorithms, Server Infrastructure and Operations.

Samuel Pinto is a Frontend Engineer since 2013, he has been working with large using facing applications in companies like Microsoft, Bumble, and OLX. He worked from 5 different countries and loves to be involved and learn new cultures.

Hi, I'm Walmyr. I'm a software engineer who loves testing. I'm also a clean coder, blogger, YouTuber, podcaster, Cypress.io Ambassador, online instructor, mentor, speaker, an active member of the testing automation and JavaScript communities, and a fan of good music, tattoos, gardening, vegan 🌱 food, and skateboarding.

Sebastian Witalec is the head of Developer Relations at Weaviate. He loves working on both serious and fun projects, and one day he will use his robot army to conquer the world. He is always happy to learn about new stuff and to pass the knowledge as far as his voice (or the wire) can take him. Sebastian is based in Copenhagen, actively working with various Dev communities across Europe. When not acting techie, he is a massive football fan/player (probably bigger at heart than in skills).

Game developer with a healthy curiosity for the web. Worked at Wooga for a few years, then freelanced in several game studios. Now in charge of making tech work at PlayPack here in Berlin.

John joined React Flow in 2022 and takes care of the documentation, communication and community.

Andy Kuszyk is a Staff Engineer at Typeform, an occasional blog author, and an Emacs enthusiast! He's mostly worked in backend systems with the likes of Go, Terraform, and Kubernetes, but also enjoys thinking about the way teams work, communicate, and transfer knowledge.

Experienced Customer Success professional with a history of working in developer tooling and startups. Extensive background as a support professional.

Rodrigo is a focused developer who produces digital projects for agencies around the world. He has 20 years of experience using various methodologies and tech in most web and mobile projects. He has a strong knowledge base of the WordPress world and is very engaged with the community: building custom themes, plugins, and core customizations. He specializes in WordPress, developing for the front-end back-end and in managing digital projects.

A serial tools builder, I'm super passionate about creating a magical and seamless developer experience. Have been working on creating tools, infrastructure and systems for developers over the past 7 years, and going strong!

Elina builds web apps, untangles state logic, and occasionally wins battles against heavy data waves coming from the backend. She enjoys crafting complex UIs for unusual users, cares about good architecture and mental health, and firmly believes that “just one more refactor” is a valid personality trait.

Author of RescriptRelay and host of RelayMeetup.com. Partner at Arizon, a Swedish IT-consultancy and startup incubator. Loving GraphQL, Relay and ReScript.

Marko is a Solutions Engineer for Yugabyte Cloud, he works with Yugabyte cloud customers to successfully build high throughput applications using the Yugabyte Cloud database.

Mobile Engineering Manager at Shopify

Ido Moshe is a software engineer with over a decade of experience building scalable web applications and developer tools. He currently works on charting libraries at AG Grid, focusing on clear, high-performance data visualization. He has led front-end architecture across diverse domains, with a focus on building modular UI systems, streamlining development workflows, and reducing complexity in evolving codebases. His work emphasizes maintainability, clarity, and thoughtful abstraction.

Ryan Feigenbaum is a Dev Advocate at GrowthBook, helping teams build scalable feature flagging and experimentation systems. A JavaScript enthusiast with a love for performance and developer tooling, they’re passionate about making experimentation seamless for engineers. When not deep in flags and rollouts, they’re probably sipping a bourbon, playing chess, and having a spirited disagreement with their dog, Mel.

Saravanan is an Architect working at Rabobank, Netherlands and one of the leads of the Growing Greener (Sustainability) community in the bank. He has more than 22 years of experience in diverse IT and business roles with different banks across the world. His passion is in Architecture, IT sustainability and Green Software and how we can generate more interest among the IT community in sustainable software. He has been nominated as a "Green Software Champion" by the Green Software Foundation.

Shaundai is a front end Senior Software Engineer (Netflix) based in Georgia, US. Through her work as a course instructor (tsforjs.com) and her YouTube channel (youtube.com/shaundai), she aims to make programming interesting and approachable for all.

At the age of just 29, Katharina is Head of IT at hylane, a rental company for hydrogen trucks. She previously worked as a software developer and data engineer at WetterOnline for 9 years. In her work, she places a special focus on sustainable corporate IT and will share her experiences.

Daniel Goren is a lead researcher at Evinced, a pioneering company specializing in automating the detection of accessibility violations. With 6 years of experience and a deep passion for accessibility, Daniel is committed to driving innovation and best practices in the industry.

Heena is an open-source enthusiast since her college days. She completed her Bachelor of Technology from Delhi Technological University, 2011-2015 in computer engineering. She contributed to KDE organization during Google Summer of Code. Later, she mentored open-source contributors as a Google Code In, 2013 mentor and made the KDE community even more stronger by her diligent demonstration of mentorship skills. She was also one of the co-administrator and mentor for Search of KDE, 2014 and Google Code In, 2014. She has represented KDE organization in various Google Summer of Code knowledge sharing sessions held in DTU. She also presented KDE plasma projects in FOSSASIA 2015, Singapore. She also organized a Google Summer of Code meetup in Delhi which was featured in Google open-source blog. Apart from her open-source contributions, she has over 8 years of work experience as a software developer. She is currently working at Expedia as a Software Development Engineer III for Flights. She is one of the service owner for flights progressive web application. She has done several pipeline improvements for an efficient release process and is responsible for ensuring timely releases using the release pipeline for the same. She is a part of flights performance project where she shares a crucial role in making the flights progressive web application performance efficient. She has presented on “Portfolio Management through storytelling using narrative visualizations with advanced filtering” in Hong Kong Open Source Conference, 2017. She also presented a poster on “Optimal financial planning through storytelling using narrative visualizations with advanced filtering“ in Grace Hopper Conference India, 2017. She was also a mentor in “Learn IT, Girl” 2015 in which she mentored female developers.

My degree is in Graphic Design, but when I started coding by accident, I fell in love with the beauty of good code. I've never looked back. I've worked for tiny sole proprietorships and giant multinationals, startups and mature companies. I've found something interesting and worth doing at all of them.

Javier Alcaide is a mathematician and software developer focused on data science and machine learning. His professional career is based on the use of advanced analytics and big data techniques within the financial sector. His current role is the design and construction of AI models and the analysis of data using ETL processing with Big Data technologies.

Jiri is an Integrations Engineer at Kontent.ai. He loves to write type-safe, functional code using TypeScript and React as his primary tools. Always eager to learn and keep up with new technologies to enhance his skills and work, he wants to promote the advantages of this approach to project development in the community.