JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

With 16 years of product and business leadership in marketing technology at top companies like Salesforce, Adobe, WPP, and Rakuten, Udipta has led 8-figure revenue units and launched NK BigStar, Northeast India's largest streaming platform, reaching 500K monthly active users. Currently in C-level roles at innovative crypto startups, he played a key role in Bowled.io's Token Generation Event, driving over $10 million in daily trading volume for the BWLD token across multiple exchanges.

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.

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

Adam leads frontend development at Chatham Financial, where his efforts to centralize front-end resources and training have led to transformative improvements in product consistency and quality, accessibility of user experiences, and developer efficiency. In addition to the frontend, Adam especially enjoys working on projects involving performance, accessibility, and coding theory. Outside work, he spends his time learning human languages, writing open-source projects, and haunting his favorite sushi joint.

Nataliya Ioffe is a front-end software developer with a passion for guiding organizations through digital transformation and modernization processes. Her recent work has seen her partner with organizations as they upgrade their tech stacks with React and adopt Headless architectures with powerful content editing capabilities.

I’m a software developer working at Stack Builders with about 6 years of experience in full-stack development. I enjoy writing code, looking for new technologies, and finding solutions to problems. Music, sports, functional programming, and business are also a great part of my life.

Former Coding bootcamp instructor, Oracle cloud engineer, and current AWS developer working with Agentic AI. Transitioned career from biomedical sciences into tech after college. Passionate about developer productivity and success.

Business-oriented software product engineer (M.Sc. in computer science) featuring 15 years of professional involvement in the entire life-cycle of digital products. Experience developing a variety of disruptive Internet technologies. Insights into modern travel, smart cities, the gig economy and social networking services.

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.

Developer specializing in building human-centered applications in healthcare. My experience spans from leading design direction for large medical sites serving over 40,000+ patients daily to creating full-stack applications that directly impact thousands of practitioners across the nation. Creating content around the intersection of technology and healthcare.

Liang Gong works at Meta on building and optimizing web and developer infrastructure, with a focus on improving performance, memory efficiency, reliability, and user engagement. He is the creator of the open-source project MemLab and holds a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley, where his research was in the area of programming languages, software engineering, and JavaScript program analysis.

Todd has a passion for promoting a healthy product and engineering culture, collaboratively exploring ways to solve both organizational and engineering needs, as well as holding regular discussions around how to evolve the software engineering craft. Todd believes in a human centered approach to engineering, where the experience of those creating and evolving the product is just as important as those that use the product. A native to California's bay area, Todd’s journey into programming started over two decades ago and he has been privileged to work with many technologies as well as leadership roles over the years. With his experience as a Principal of Software Engineering Practices, in the Technology Center of Excellence at Pluralsight, Todd supported both individual software engineers and the technical leadership team in helping to continually improve and work together in a way that enables everyone to do their best work. Todd loves to play the guitar, and is always open to jamming out and frequently enjoys paired programming with strangers.

John Robert is a Senior Data & Machine Learning Engineer at Sunnic Lighthouse (Enerparc AG), working at the intersection of data engineering, machine learning, and cloud platforms. He previously contributed to autonomous driving projects at Bosch and Mercedes-Benz, gaining hands-on experience with safety-critical AI systems. John is a frequent speaker at conferences such as PyCon, PyData, and Data Native, with a focus on AI safety, transparency, and trustworthy machine learning. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling and building projects like PetWorld+ and SpreadsheetProAI, etc

Senior Full Stack Engineer @Factify With a great passion for designing for scale, understanding how things work and public speaking. I enjoy building systems that are both elegant and performant. When I'm not behind a keyboard, I'm probably surfing or playing guitar.

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.

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.

Jessica has extensive experience and expertise within cloud architecture, cloud infrastructure and platform engineering. She is a hands on, technical architect and team lead who has built up and led platform teams within developer experience and data. She is also a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ambassador who regularly shares her knowledge both in the local Gothenburg community and at conferences such as QCon.​

Ryan has been building for the web for 25 years. He created rari, a React Server Components framework running on a Rust runtime that delivers 46.5x higher throughput and 9.1x faster response times than Next.js. He believes performance shouldn't be an afterthought and that the web deserves frameworks that are both fast and beautiful to work with.

I'm a frontend developer currently @ Meta. I love making cool things on the web with a focus on performant, satisfying UX. Recently moved to London to build a brand new AI-powered design system for WhatsApp.

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.

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.

Vadim Zhamkov is a Fronted Architect with 14+ years experience in web development. Organiser of AmsterdamJS, React Amsterdam and AI Tinkerers Amsterdam meetups. Former organiser of MoscowJS meetups.

Benjamin Swerdlow took a break from his studies at UChicago, to go work as a Senior Backend Engineer for Apple, who recently took a break from Apple to build Freestyle. He's been building in the Open Source community since high school, and was a technical lead for the World Health Organization's COVID-19 App team.