JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Samhitha is a full-stack software engineer at BlackRock, currently spearheading the UI architecture for the second generation of a high-scale, data-intensive investment management application. She is a University of Southern California alumna with a Master’s degree in CS, where she was also a Graduate Teaching Assistant and a Webmaster. Passionate about youth education and empowering women in STEM, Samhitha advocates for these causes through panel discussions, coding workshops and teaching. She serves as a mentor and judge at various hackathons, helping young developers refine their skills, and is also a contributor to freeCodeCamp. Outside of work, she loves to paint and has been doing it for over 20 years now.

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.

Ido Moshe is a software engineer with over a decade of experience building scalable web applications and developer tools. He currently works on charting libraries at AG Grid, focusing on clear, high-performance data visualization. He has led front-end architecture across diverse domains, with a focus on building modular UI systems, streamlining development workflows, and reducing complexity in evolving codebases. His work emphasizes maintainability, clarity, and thoughtful abstraction.

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

Richard is a Senior Software Engineer at Sentry on the Issues team, where his recent projects include redesigning the Issues UI and creating LLM-based Issue Detection. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, skiing, and being disappointed in the Ferrari F1 team.

Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding Manager at Hoxhunt

Todd Schiller is co-founder and CEO of PixieBrix. He’s spent the past 15 years building AI, data science, and software engineering tools for large enterprises and hedge funds. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Gabriel is a Node.js core collaborator, TSC member emeritus, and a member of the Node API working group with a passion for improving performance. Formerly of Nokia, Intel, and SpaceX, currently at Auction.com.

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.

Senior Software Engineer at CureApp inc, & CTO at RENDEZ-VOUS.

Ryan Feigenbaum is a Dev Advocate at GrowthBook, helping teams build scalable feature flagging and experimentation systems. A JavaScript enthusiast with a love for performance and developer tooling, they’re passionate about making experimentation seamless for engineers. When not deep in flags and rollouts, they’re probably sipping a bourbon, playing chess, and having a spirited disagreement with their dog, Mel.

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.

As the Founder and CEO of an edtech startup, I combine my passion for education with my product management experience to create innovative learning solutions that improve soft skills development. Our startup provides learners with engaging tools and resources to practice and master essential soft skills. With a focus on continuous innovation, we're dedicated to transforming the way learners acquire and develop soft skills. Our approach is grounded in the latest research and tailored to meet the needs of our diverse learners. I'm excited to be leading a team that is making a real impact in the edtech industry. If you're interested in learning more about our startup or connecting with me, please feel free to reach out. I'm passionate about education and excited to collaborate with others who share my vision for a better future of learning.

Ilya Pukhalski is a founder and partner at ENDGAME. He spent 20+ years in software engineering, architecture and product development, designing and delivering large transformation programs for IKEA, Primark, Nike, Albert Heijn. He founded ENDGAME on a conviction: software engineering is in a renaissance, and machines amplify great engineering minds rather than replace them. At ENDGAME he builds a dark factory of autonomous agent pipelines, and helps other organizations make the same leap into agentic product development.

Iustin is an Engineering Manager at Fastned, where he leads core engineering teams and drives pragmatic AI adoption across ways of working and product delivery. He focuses on building strong engineering cultures, aligning teams with business outcomes, and helping organizations adopt AI responsibly and effectively. He is also the founder of DataPrysm, an agentic analytics platform, previously built and scaled Replica AI, and actively invests in early-stage startups - bringing a founder-operator perspective to modern tech leadership.

Dario is a Systems Engineer working at Cloudflare, mainly focused on improving the developer experience for applications being built using JavaScript frameworks. This requires him to work with different tooling and teams in the JavaScript ecosystem, ranging from full-stack frameworks, to bundlers and dev servers, to the Cloudflare developer platform utilities. His goal being to enable developers to take full advantage of the advanced Cloudflare platform while being able to use their preferred technologies.

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.

dr. Robin Marx is a Web Performance Expert at Akamai Technologies. He focuses on the performance and workings of modern Web protocols like HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and QUIC and has been a contributor in the IETF QUIC working group for multiple years. Robin often talks about web performance at international conferences, making the complex situations more insightful to the wider public. On the weekends, he likes to hit other people with longswords.

Will is a Staff Developer Advocate at Miro and has been in the Developer Relations space for the last 6 years at organizations like Zoom, Miro, and Meetup. He's passionate about all things API-related and the interconnectedness of the web.

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.

Joel is a CTO Coach who supports start-up and scale-up CTOs to successfully and confidently navigate the changes in their roles as their businesses evolve. He has over 20 years experience building, scaling and leading software development teams, mainly in start-ups, where he held both CTO and COO roles.

Systems Engineer, Emerging Tech & Incubation @ Cloudflare. Helping you internet your things. Equally as likely to be hacking on a Raspberry Pi or baking one.

Andreia brings a wonderful mix of academic experience and open-source passion to Genezio. Her expertise shines through in her contributions to streamlining FaaS/serverless deployments for the end users. Andreia is a passionate public speaker and technology advocate. She empowers developers to write clean, bulletproof code through her talks and articles. When she's not elbow-deep in writing code, you might find her talking about best practices for cloud and backend development at conferences or meetups.