JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

With 15+ years in Digital Marketing and Tech, Leo has built and led numerous high-performing teams and streamlined key business operations. He spent 5+ years as COO at iProspect, a major performance marketing agency within the Dentsu group. Prior to that, he held roles as a marketing expert at Booking.com and as a business consultant for IBM, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard. Currently, at Albato, a no-code integration platform, Leo leads customer acquisition and business development efforts. Albato helps SaaS companies drive growth and enhance customer experience through native, embeddable API integrations.

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.

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.

Nico Gorrono is the founder of SAVVITY, a leading AI-Powered SEO agency. With a focus on leveraging artificial intelligence to transform digital marketing, Nico has built a reputation for delivering innovative and effective SEO strategies that drive real results. Through his popular TikTok account, where he shares insights and tips about AI-powered SEO with over 80,000 followers, Nico has established himself as a knowledgeable figure in the industry. He combines his expertise with a knack for making complex concepts accessible, empowering businesses and individuals to optimize their online presence. Nico is also the creator of the "AI Ranking & Automation Hub" on Skool, a thriving community dedicated to teaching the latest AI-driven SEO techniques and automation strategies. His comprehensive masterclass, interactive webinars, and hands-on tutorials provide valuable resources to small business owners and marketers seeking to stay ahead of the curve. Nico's practical approach and commitment to innovation have made him a sought-after speaker and consultant, helping businesses transition smoothly into the digital age.

Experienced sales engineering leader with an extensive background in project management, data analytics, BI, data science and a wide range of software skills. Trusted consultant for technical expertise and sales strategy.

Sierrah Coleman is a seasoned Technical Product Manager with a proven track record of driving product success in high-growth tech environments. At Indeed, she spearheaded initiatives that led to a 20% increase in positive relevance rating feedback and improved job match relevance by 9% through refined ML-based recommender systems. Her leadership in developing and launching an AI-powered query-relevance scoring feature boosted organic apply starts by 20% and sponsored apply starts by 15%. During her tenure at Cisco, Sierrah Coleman increased customer retention by 12% through effective communication strategies and competitive analyses, leading to a 5% increase in annual revenue. She successfully launched an auditing feature, securing substantial upsell opportunities and contract renewals.

Jan is director of engineering at &why and passionate about creating an engineering culture that allows everyone to do their best work. In his free time, he creates a digital atlas of the world's wine regions.

Meaghan is a Designer at Cloudflare (previously Meta) focusing on the building the developer platform. Her expertise lies in creating developer experiences for cutting-edge technology including cloud computing, AI, machine perception and spatial computing. She is enthusiastic about bringing design into highly technical spaces and how design shapes development and vice versa.

Tech Lead and Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years' experience, believes that collaboration changes every game. Holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fullstack TS dev. I like mending legacy code. I organize a few meetup groups in Montréal, including React MTL and Software Crafters.

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.

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.

Charly Gomez joined Sentry in 2024 as a Software Engineer. He builds, breaks, fixes and maintains Sentry's JavaScript SDKs out of the city of Vienna, while having also lived several years in Spain and Italy. Charly enjoys salsa dancing, and plays a host of sports, including sailing, padel, cycling, football and is a CrossFit enthusiast.

Lena Reinhard (Website, LinkedIn) is an engineering leadership coach, mentor, and organizational developer supporting technology leaders in growing themselves and succeeding in the complexity of engineering organizations. Previously, Lena served as VP Engineering with CircleCI and Travis CI, and a SaaS startup co-founder & CEO, and has dedicated her career to helping leaders and their organizations excel in times of high change and challenging markets. She has worked with a broad variety of companies at all stages, from startups pre-founding and bootstrapped, scale-ups, to late-stage/pre-IPO and VC-funded ventures, to corporations and NGOs. Find her writing on leadership and more about her work at lenareinhard.com.

Tiki Lobel is a fintech software developer who leads a team at Rapyd to liberate global commerce and connect the world’s disparate payment systems into a single integrated network. Her team focuses on core API development and Tiki’s ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously, and her understanding of complex dependencies within a larger system, make her an integral part of all product development in the company.

Marissa Masangcay is a Technical Marketing Specialist for Cloudinary and has worked for the company since 2017. She has also served as one of Cloudinary’s Developer Support Engineers, where she responded to customers’ technical support requests and feature-related questions, as well as debugged customer issues and wrote code samples in multiple development frameworks. She has also served as a volunteer instructor for Girls Who Code, which is a nonprofit dedicated to teaching girls in grades 6-12 the fundamentals of coding. Marissa graduated with her bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of San Francisco.

Richard is a Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS focusing on Application modernization using Serverless and Containers. During his 3-year tenure at AWS he has played a pivotal role assisting partners & customers in various industries with their cloud adoption and modernization strategies. Richard collaborates with the development teams and engineering leaders to optimize software delivery in the cloud, emphasizing best practices and AWS's capabilities.

Livecoder, music technologist, educator. creative coding for sound, visuals and algorithmic compositions. maxmsp, jitter, javascript, pd, p5.js, mercury.

Jason Santos is a Senior Solution Architect at Rangle.io, where he is responsible for mentoring teams, understanding problems, finding solutions, and providing technical expertise to different projects. In the few years he has been at Rangle, he was able to contribute to the success of large projects in the Banking, Healthcare and Electronic Payment spaces, helping shape Enterprise architecture, leading teams and implementing full stack solutions using NodeJS microservices and cloud-native technologies, as well as both Angular and React. He brings with him 30 years of experience in building software across multiple languages and environments, from embedded software to IDEs and Debugging tools -- designing and implementing software frameworks and building applications on both back-end and front-end since the late 1990s. Being a certified SAFe Agilist, Jason is a strong advocate of process improvement, DevOps and agile delivery practices; he is also passionate about knowledge sharing and mentoring other developers.

Self taught frontend developer from India who loves to tinker around with modern web technologies, College student & currently working at timeless.co