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!

Ariene Maiara
G2i, Brazil
Passionate about technology, innovation, and learning new programming languages, I have been working with software and web development for over 9 years. I have strong front-end and back-end skills. Currently working with React/React Native. I also have experience working with agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.

Guilherme Vieira
Shopify, Canada
You might be familiar with HTTP GraphQL APIs. Did you know GraphQL does not have to be delivered over HTTP? We can use GraphQL in some different contexts. asynchronous queries, batch operations, user-provided scripts, WebAssembly, webhooks, and many more. We will explore how Shopify uses GraphQL in different contexts and how you can extend your current GraphQL schema beyond HTTP APIs.

Kevin Gao
Descope, USA
Kevin is an engineer who is passionate about solving problems and learning new skills. When he's not speaking to customers or coding through sprints, you'll find Kevin either on the road driving fast up a twisty mountain road, reading historical fiction books, or looking for a new place in the world to travel to and explore.

Shivani Poddar
Facebook, USA
Shivani Poddar is a Machine Learning Tech Lead for the Meeting Assistant team at Workplace, Facebook, leading the development of meeting assistants for making remote collaboration easier for work. Previously, Shivani built and launched the foundational machine learning and AI stack for Facebook Portal, spearheading product and engineering development across social graph technology for ML, deep personalization for a smarter calling experience.
She was also the first ever student at Carnegie Mellon to be funded by the Amazon Alexa Prize, where she and her team built a social chatbot, eventually deployed to tens of thousands of users through Alexa. During her time at CMU she also pursued research in the field of Natural Language Generation, Reinforcement Learning for chatbots and multimodal machine learning.
Outside of Work, Shivani has emerged as one of the leaders in talking about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Consumers as well as Enterprises. She has been a speaker at numerous conferences over the last 2 years covering topics such as – Diversity and Bias in AI, Future of Work, Immersive Multimodal Assistants. She is also a mentor for young aspirants looking to become the next innovators in the field, and regularly volunteers in resume building workshops, panels for hiring and Q&As on LinkedIn.

Sachin Dangayach
Applied Materials, India
Sachin is a Deputy Director at Applied Materials leading efforts in Data Science and Advanced Analytics with a team of data scientists, working to provide innovative solutions with a focus on AI enablement in various products and systems for the semiconductor equipment manufacturing industry.
He has over 15 years of diverse experience in the Industry around Software, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Beril Sirmacek
Jonkoping University & the Owner of Create4D, Netherlands
Beril Sirmacek is a Dutch AI researcher. She received her PhD degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2009. Later she has worked with German Aerospace Center and pursued a habilitation degree with University of Osnabrueck.
She is an assistant professor at Jonkoping AI Lab and also leading her company create4D. Beril is passionate to use computer vision and AI algorithms for creating useful healthcare and earth care solutions.
Beril has taught a MSc course at the University of Augsburg in 2010, only on OpenCV. As a computer vision scientist and developer, she has been using it regularly for many years.

Rodrigo Donini
Toptal, Spain
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.

Lenny Burdette
Apollo, USA
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.

Johan Eliasson
Nhost, Sweden
Johan Eliasson is CEO & Co-Founder of Nhost. Johan has been building apps his whole life and is passionate about making it easy to develop web and mobile apps. Prior to Nhost, Johan helped grow his family business, driving innovation in the Swedish water treatment market. Johan graduated from Blekinge Institute of Technology with a Master of Science in Computer Security, Computer & Information Systems.

Wowa Effect
Music producer, Live techno performer, Germany
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.

Alem Tuzlak
Code Forge, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alem Tuzlak is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Founder of Code Forge. He builds open-source tooling and products in the TanStack ecosystem and React Router/Remix, and is known for creating developer-focused libraries and devtools that help teams build, debug, and ship faster. He is best known for his work on TanStack AI & TanStack Devtools. Alongside his engineering work, Alem teaches and shares practical insights through workshops, writing, YouTube and community work.

Michael Poteat
Volley Inc, USA
Located in the vibrant city of San Francisco, Mike Poteat is a committed technical leader, skilled software engineer, and approachable people manager. His areas of interest are wide-ranging and encompass programming, type theory, pure mathematics, and more.
In the open-source world, Mike has had the opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects. One of these, hkt-toolbelt, applies higher-kinded types to TypeScript in an attempt to expand its functionality. Additionally, he's worked on spellbound, an agent-based LLM-powered VS Code extension that aims to enhance the usability of the platform.
Currently, Mike finds himself immersed in the voice AI industry at a startup backed by Y Combinator. He's part of a team working on the front lines of artificial intelligence, continually learning and evolving their approach to create cutting-edge solutions.
Away from his day job, Mike takes time to reflect and share his experiences on his blog, code.lol. He delves into topics around machine learning, programming, and other tech-related subjects, hoping that his musings might offer value to others exploring these fields.











