JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Pramod Shenoy is currently working as a Solutions Architect at Cloudinary. His interests align with his 8 years of experience at Akamai and Catchpoint in web performance and optimization, CDNs and monitoring digital experiences. Outside of work Pramod likes to hike, read blogs on tech, sports and stock markets.

David works as a post-sales Solutions Engineer at Rollbar, with a focus on customer enablement and custom solutions delivery. He is passionate about anything that combines technical learning with customer interaction, and is curious about finding ways to apply technology to improve the UX of everyday life. He has specific knowledge around software observability practices, and worked as a Professional Services Consultant at Sumo Logic before joining Rollbar in August. David earned a BS in Computer Science from Auburn University.

For more than twelve years, Itai has been creating on the full spectrum of software development. Anything from simple POCs to intricately complex systems, from native mobile development to fully fledged backend architecture, from libraries and SDKs to client facing applications.

Tele2 Kazakhstan, Front-end TeamLead, 10 years of web development, in love with project transformation and refactoring React based applications.

Amit Mandelbaum is a tech lead at AI21 labs, prior to joining AI21 labs Amit was an entrepreneur in the field of GenAI and a Director of AI at Nvidia. Amit is also an Angel investor in the field of AI and is a known keynote speaker and consultant on GenAI agents.

Idan Rozin is a full-stack developer at AI21 Labs with a focus on startups and over 7 years of experience. A React and Node enthusiast, Idan is deeply passionate about AI and technology, continuously exploring innovative solutions in the tech landscape.

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.

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.

David Burrowes is a software engineer at Split.io with a decade of experience developing web applications for companies like Box, Delphix, and VMware. Having worked without feature flags, and with clunky in-house feature flagging frameworks, David is deliriously happy to have all of Split's capabilities at his disposal for every project. For fun, and to prove he’s more Star Trek than Star Wars, David likes to randomly quote large sections for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Goran is the CTO and Co-founder of syntheticAIdata, a startup company dedicated to democratising the vision AI market by providing affordable and accessible synthetic data. With over 20 years of work experience in IT and a deep understanding of various technologies, Goran worked as an engineering and technical manager, among other roles, developing IT strategies and solutions for well-known clients. Goran is a tech enthusiast, he writes technical blog posts and he likes to share his knowledge at conferences, workshops, and meetups. He is recognised as Microsoft AI Most Valuable Professional (AI MVP), and his projects have been highlighted on websites such as Forbes, The Next Web, NVIDIA Developer, TechCrunch, and others.

Tom is a Senior Software Engineer at Canva, based in Sydney. He has worked on Canva’s Apps SDK for the last few years, working across the stack to deliver the APIs that Canva’s growing developer ecosystem loves.

Sergey is a software engineer at FocusReactive. Loves to understand how things work and is passionate about website performance.

Haris is a Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, where he makes contributions to open-source Grafana. Currently, he’s on the Explore squad, focused on improving data troubleshooting and discovery experience.

Frontend Engineer at Evil Martians, a product development consultancy. My great inspiration is to shape thoughts into easy-to-use products and articles, and I love to speak publicly. I'm passionate about learning different front-end technologies, and always try to see both pros and cons of using them.

Dara is a Software Engineer currently working at Spotify where she develops tools and services that provide internal teams with access to user account data. She began her career as a Frontend Engineer in the finance sector, and recently transitioned into full-stack development. With over 6 years of hands-on experience, Dara is particularly passionate about merging her creative and technical skills to design and build user-centric products that foster community. Outside of work, she loves to mentor other women who are at an early stage in their tech careers.

André is a seasoned developer with over 20 years of experience and is currently a Principal Engineer at bettermarks, a Berlin-based EdTech company. When AFK, he loves biking, watersports and woodworking.

Mike Ryan is the co-founder of Polaris, an AI-powered site reliability platform. Mike is a Google Developer Expert specializing in software architecture. Mike has a strong background in working with IoT in industrial manufacturing and designing sophisticated and elegant user experiences. When not in front of his MBP you can find Mike hiking the backcountry in the Pacific Northwest.

Miguel Henriques is a Cloud Application Architect at AWS with over 4 years of experience building cloud-based, serverless-first applications for large customers in the automotive industry.

Ante is a skilled and hearing-impaired Senior Software Engineer at Infobip with a strong interest in Web and the technical side of it. With permanent 55% hearing loss in both ears, he’s a testament to the power of determination and hard work which often speaks louder than words. He has a big love and soft spot for rubber ducks and excels at presenting and educating, React, JavaScript, Node.JS, build processes, automation and improving developer and customer experiences. He always shares his own experiences, especially in accessibility. Ante's goal is to always improve, making things more efficient and user-friendly. When he steps away from coding, Ante enjoys discovering new music, long and scenic walks, and capturing the beauty of the world through his hobby of photography, traveling, and travel blogging. As a big extrovert at heart, he’s always up for sharing a laugh, interesting travel stories, or discussing the latest tech topics. Approachable and driven, Ante shows that hearing impairment is just a part of his journey, not the end of his story. If you have a moment, his doors are always open for a chat, so don't hesitate to start a discussion with him - he is more than happy to connect and talk with you!

I'm a Developer Advocate at Codium where I geek out over generative AI, automation, and the magic of scripting. When I'm not advocating, I'm usually elbow-deep in API adventures, because who needs free time when there's APIs that fail to do what I want them to do..

Jennifer is a front end developer on the Docs and API Libraries team at Shopify where our goal is to make it easier for developers to build on Shopify’s platform by creating and curating technical resources. Jennifer has spent the last two years working on shopify.dev, Shopify’s home for developer documentation.

Kristina J. Robinson is a Software Engineering Manager at InfluxData. With over 20 years of software development experience, she is thrilled to be a part of the InfluxData UI team. Most recently, Kristina spent time in the financial tech sector working as front-end developer. Kristina graduated from Rice University with a degree in Computational and Applied Mathematics. She currently lives in San Antonio, TX, with her husband and teenage son, and has another son in college. She also has two cats, and fosters dogs and cats frequently. She plays video games with both her boys. She reads voraciously, enjoys paper crafts and knitting, and plays several musical instruments.

Software engineer that have been doing react for years (I was material ui contribute for a while) and now passionate about Rust, OCaml and pure C. Love performant, robust and pretty applications and trying do deliver them on a regular basis :)

Miroslav Malecha is Director of Product management at Bonitoo.io. He has a background in computer science and has been focused on defining software products in data science, enterprise architectures and cloud computing. Prior to joining Bonitoo, Miroslav held product management positions at Good Data and Hewlett-Packard Software. When Mirek is not working, you can find him speeding down hills on his ebike in the forests near Prague.