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!

Elina Denisova
PhysicsX, UK
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.

Christian Sparks
Cloudflare, USA
Christian Sparks is a Systems Engineer working at Cloudflare, primarily focused on Builds and Automation for the developer platform. His work ranges across the stack, from front-end to Golang backends, to bleeding edge Workers-based services. Specifically, he works on the customer-facing build systems for the Pages and Workers CI, helping make the process of deploying applications on Cloudflare easier.

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.

Michal Ziso
theZISO Creative Disruption Platform, Israel
Michal Ziso is an Earth & Space architect and systems thinker focused on how humans operate inside complex, high-risk environments. Her work explores responsibility, leadership, and human performance in chaotic systems operating at the edge. She is the founder of theZISO Creative Disruption platform, where she leads design, research, and advisory work that bridges the inherited world and the emerging. She is a global speaker reaching over 200K humans on stages such as TEDx, NASA, Dubai Future Forum, YPO and more.

Jen Person
Squid Cloud, USA
Jen Person is a developer advocate for Squid Cloud, an enterprise-grade backend-as-a-service that connects to and secures any API or data source. With nearly a decade of experience in developer products, Jen has extensive experience connecting with developers through talks, blogs, events, social media, and videos. She is passionate about creating the best development experiences so devs can focus on creating the best applications.
Hanna Chen
Shopify, Canada
As a former agency developer, Hanna has experience building apps on various platforms. At Shopify, she is a front-end developer on a team dedicated to building out the capabilities that enable great embedded apps. Hanna has spent the last three years building and maintaining Shopify App Bridge, a JavaScript library that lets developers embed apps directly inside the Shopify Admin and Shopify POS.

Blazej Abel
Landingi, USA/Poland
Blazej Abel - Entrepreneur, founder, and CEO of Landingi, one of the leading landing page platforms. An engineer by education. He bounded with the Internet industry for 20 years, when he started an interactive agency and spent most of his career close to website creation. Speaker at numerous conferences and a trainer. Husband, father, football player, cyclist and LEGO fan since 1982 :)

Javier Alcaide Pérez
Bluetab Solutions, Spain
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.

Weslley Araújo
weslley.io, Brazil
Weslley Araújo is a MySQL2 maintainer and the creator of Poku. He builds and maintains widely adopted supply-chain dependencies in the JavaScript open-source ecosystem.
Recognized as a Microsoft MVP, he focuses on developing for developers, sharing knowledge, speaking at events, and inspiring others.

Nik Grishin
Albato, Portugal
Nik is the Product Director and Managing Partner at Albato, a market leader in iPaaS and NoCode. With over 8 years of experience, Nik is an expert in all aspects of startup creation and development from 0 to 1.
In addition to his main job, he also mentors young professionals, participates in conferences, and hosts offline meetings for entrepreneurs and product leaders. In his free time, he enjoys playing paddle, volleyball, hiking, and traveling.

Tiki Lobel
Rapyd, Israel
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.

Anton Zalaldinov
Affirm, Canada
Anton is a Senior Software Engineer at Affirm, specializing in building robust and scalable JavaScript solutions. Outside of work, Anton actively contributes to the tech community by helping organize Vancouver JS, fostering developer learning and networking opportunities.

Marissa Masangcay
Cloudinary, USA
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 Davison
AWS, Sweden
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.

Jason Santos
Rangle, USA
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.








