JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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 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.

As a Principal Developer Advocate at MongoDB, Karen Huaulmé (pronounced “You-Old-Maid” - but with no d’s) develops and presents applications to help developers unleash their creativity across all aspects of data and technology. Leveraging her past experience as a Solutions Architect for some of MongoDB’s most demanding customers, Karen loves to trigger that “aha” moment in the minds of developers - when they recognize a better path to simplify, enhance, and accelerate their projects in ways they never thought possible. Prior to MongoDB, Karen spent most of her career working with video game developers as a Solutions Architect and Integration Engineer at Nvidia, Amazon and Twitch. In her free time, Karen embarrasses her 2 kids, spoils her dog, and feeds her addiction to adventure travel - not necessarily in that order.

Senna is a Solutions Engineer at GitHub supporting our customers the EMEA MidMarket segment. She has a background in web application, iOS development, and accessibility. Originally working out of the HQ in San Francisco, she’s been working with GitHub customers for three years, passionate about empowering developers and helping organizations as they go through cultural and digital transformations.

Solutions engineer with a lot of operation experience in Couchbase.

Phil is Head of Developer Relations at Deno. With a passion for browser technologies, and the empowering properties of the web, he loves seeking out ingenuity and simplicity, especially in places where over-engineering is common. After 25 years of building web applications for companies such as Google, Apple, Nike, R/GA, and The London Stock Exchange, Phil has worked to challenge traditional technical architectures in favour of simplicity and effectiveness. Phil is co-author of “Modern Web Development on the Jamstack” (O’Reilly, 2019).

Jorrik’s first lines of code were in the days jQuery ruled. That didn’t scare him. Now he has 6+ years of frontend experience using React and Vue during his day job. In the evening and night hours, a lot of fun projects and other libraries passed his ‘git clone’. When not coding he gets his fair share of laughs going to comedy shows.

Andrew Murphy started his career as a Software Engineer but, after a decade in technology leadership, he decided to focus on teaching the skills that he learnt the hard way. When he moved into leadership there was no support, so he had to make all the mistakes (a lot of them!) and learn from them. His goal is now to make sure that tech leaders don’t have to do things the hard way by providing them with the mindsets and skillsets that can make them happy, confident and effective leaders. His company, Tech Leaders Launchpad, currently focuses specifically on the new and emerging leader space, as that's the place we can have the biggest impact on the students, and the industry.

Hello, my name is Shivakant Shukla, and I am a MERN stack developer with four years of experience in creating dynamic and user-friendly web applications. My passion for technology, coupled with a strong foundation in front-end development, has been the driving force behind my career. In the realm of Front-end development, I excel in crafting interactive and responsive user interfaces using technologies such as React, Redux, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. I take pride in my ability to transform design concepts into functional, pixel-perfect websites that provide exceptional user experiences. Whether it's optimising performance, ensuring cross-browser compatibility, or enhancing accessibility, I am committed to delivering high-quality front-end solutions. While my primary expertise lies in front-end development, I have had the opportunity to work with back-end technologies like Node.js, Express.js, Nest.js, and MongoDB.

Hadar is the co-founder and CTO of Myop, a developer-first platform transforming how UI and UX are built, controlled and optimized in production. Hadar brings over 15 years of hands-on development experience and a deep focus on frontend infrastructure. Over the past decade, he’s led engineering teams at some of Israel’s top tech companies. At Wix, Hadar served as an architect and then head of the frontend guild, managing over 700 developers and helping shape the company’s core frontend systems. Prior to that, he held senior R&D leadership roles at Jive Software and Rafael, driving large-scale frontend development across complex products. A Unit 8200 alum, Hadar brings not only technical depth but also a strong understanding of organizational scale, cross-team architecture, and how to evolve legacy systems. His experience spans both building systems from scratch and leading long-term frontend transformations in high-growth environments.

Jaxon has 25 years of experience architecting, designing, and developing enterprise software. He is the founder of three technology startups and has consulted with multiple Fortune 500 companies on IoT and Digital Transformation initiatives. A partially-reformed developer, he understands what it’s like to wrestle with technology instead of benefiting from it, and believes passionately that if the Jetsons never had an episode where a config file error brought down the food-o-matic, it surely should not be a problem now.

Nica Mellifera (She/Her) was a developer for seven years before moving into developer relations. She specializes in containerized workloads, serverless, and public cloud engineering. Nica has long been an advocate for open standards, and has given talks and workshops on OpenTelemetry and Kubernetes architecture.

Thomas is a software engineer in the GraphQL team at Neo4j where he usually works with Javascript, Typescript, Cypher, and of course GraphQL. Prior to joining the GraphQL team, Thomas was part of the team who builds Neo4j’s graph visualization product, Bloom. Whenever he closes the laptop for the day he makes sure to get out in nature, do all kinds of sports and read a good book.

Jean grew up in France, where he studied computer science and got his master’s degree from the Université de Technology de Compiègne, where he grew fond of web technologies. He moved to Berlin in 2016 and started working with vanilla JavaScript, jQuery, and Angular1 until he discovered React and thought, “Wow, this is how web apps should be built.” Those days he worked mainly with React at Babbel (the best learning language app! 😜)and loves creating enticing user experiences on the web, he has a soft spot for animations and delightful interactivity. In his free time, he loves to cook, make cocktails (ask for advice at your own risk), and play escape/board games.

My name is Zoe Steinkamp and I am a Developer Advocate for influxData. I was a front end software engineer for over 6 years before I moved into a developer advocate role. I have been with InfluxDB for over 3 years and i look forward to sharing my knowledge of the platform and databases. I enjoy learning about awesome new technologies and doing at home tech projects to help make my life as well as other peoples lives easier. My passions besides new technology include traveling and gardening.

Zach is a builder for the web. He created Eleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator now full-time sponsored by Netlify. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 62 talks in eight different countries at events like Jamstack Conf, Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS.

Senior Software Engineer @ StackHawk

Keren Fanan is the co-founder and CEO of Myop, a developer-first platform transforming how UI and UX are built, controlled and optimized in production. Keren has held key leadership positions at Moon Active and Gett and has a proven track record of success in scaling startups, launching strategic partnerships and driving profitability. At Gett, a global B2B transportation leader and unicorn, Keren served as Chief Revenue Officer and GM Enterprise. She was instrumental in scaling the company from its early stages to over $200 million in revenue, leading international SaaS strategy and overseeing marketing, sales, and business development. Following Gett, Keren joined Moon Active, a $5B gaming company, as VP of Product & Monetization. There, she led cross-functional teams, shaped product direction, and grew average daily revenue from $10K to $200K, contributing to over $1.5B in total revenue. Keren is a passionate advocate for women’s inclusion in tech and serves as a board member at Women in Tech (WIT). She also actively mentors and supports the next generation of female tech leaders.

Steven has 13+ years of industry experiance as an engineer, tech lead, interim CTO, technical co-founder and technical consulting. Starting out as a software engineer and moving quickly to tech lead and consulting to building digital venture teams across London. Most two roles have been Head of Technology and Head of AI/Developemnt for two multinational companies. Day to day activies focused around research, development and integration of new tools and workflows for engineering teams, hiring and training the next generation of developers and building modern sustainable software.

Francisco Gomes is a Tech Lead, building large-scale microservices systems. His work spans engineering standards, developer enablement, security, compliance, and architecture across modern stacks including cloud, frontend, backend, and AI. Beyond industry, he has taught aspiring engineers from over 20 countries, mentoring the next generation of software developers.

I am a software engineer with more than 8 years of experience. Over the last 5 years, I’ve worked with a wide range of companies, from start-ups to Fortune 500. I specialize in E-Commerce and am passionate about UX and AI.

Ryan Albrecht is a frontend engineer at Sentry working on Session Replays. He’s built products and tools focusing on usability, engagement, and performance and now works at Sentry to improve workflows for developers.

As a youngster, I had an early interest in computers. I quickly learned to disassemble and reassemble my family's Tandy 1000 without much effort. This passion only grew as I got older. In college, I became very interested in helping to bridge the growing digital divide and started a student organization, Tech Serv, at Drexel University. After college, I started my career as a data analyst but quickly found a career in Product Management. Here, I was able to combine my love for technology with my passion for improving the lives of others. Since that time, I've been a product manager in a variety of industries including MarTech and HealthTech. Now at Docker, I hope to continue on my journey by improving the lives of developers and helping solve their daily challenges.

I've been working as a business and system analyst on a significant amount of projects in different industries: government services, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, energy, EDI, and fintech. And it grants me an outstanding possibility to improve both sides of the process: how it works from a business perspective and how it could be automated or digitalized with IT capabilities. No matter where I’m working, I passionately follow my value of trustful relationships. For me, that means honest feedback, business transparency, a strong brand personality and attentiveness to details.