JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Emily is a lead software engineer based out of Pittsburgh, USA. She's a lifelong learner, adjunct professor, and IoT enthusiast. Emily has a tech background in healthcare, robotics, and more recently, bringing local food to the masses at Harvie. In her spare time, you can find Emily working on her web agency startup, scuba diving, or trying her hand at landscape photography.

Ava Wroten has been building ambitious EmberJS apps for over eight years. She's built health education software at Eyemaginations (now called Rendia), banking and account opening software at Q2, budgeting software for K-12 educators at Allovue, and now she is connecting students to employers at SkillsEngine. With a passion for frontend web apps, Ava is excited for the future of the web as a platform to deliver innovation that betters people's everyday lives.

Nouha is the Developer Experience Manager at Prismic. She currently manages a team of developer experience engineers, and spending a lot of time on recruiting and growing her team. This year she'll recruit over 15 people to join her team. She'll share some advice for those of you preparing for technical interviews, and will be able to describe what is a Developer Experience Engineer, a Developer Relations Engineer, a Dev Blogger, a Dev Streamer.

Dr. Nikita Golovko is a seasoned Solution Architect with over 16 years of experience in designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective software architectures for industrial and business-critical systems. With a strong academic background and research in machine learning, he bridges the gap between advanced AI technologies and real-world applications on the shop floor. Nikita has led full project lifecycles—from requirements and architecture design to deployment—ensuring compliance with security and industry standards. He is known for translating business needs into robust architectures and aligning cross-functional teams. Passionate about innovation and sustainability, he focuses on applying AI, IoT, and edge computing to drive continuous improvement in industrial environments.

m4dz is a curious animal. Former Frontend Dev, Devtools enthusiast, he has made the Developer eXperience (DX) his cherished topic. All the technologies are under his radar to get things ever simpler. His moto: "Developers are users just like you." As a life-long dreamer his favorite book will ever remains "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".

Pratyusha Singaraju is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix Inc., where she architects and builds sophisticated backend services that power the content understanding infrastructure behind Netflix's search, collections, and ratings systems. Her work directly impacts how millions of users discover and engage with content across the platform. Prior to Netflix, Pratyusha was part of Microsoft's data team for Bing, where she worked on knowledge graph initiatives spanning diverse public domains, including food, nutrition, politics, events, and building an enterprise knowledge graph.

Siriwong is an Engineer Manager at Coinbase. He enjoys working on products in the latest technology space. Previously, he worked at Facebook in News feed, Videos, and Portal. At Coinbase, he leads the team to innovate in the Crypto space.

Author of RescriptRelay and host of RelayMeetup.com. Partner at Arizon, a Swedish IT-consultancy and startup incubator. Loving GraphQL, Relay and ReScript.

Shifra Williams is a Developer Relations Engineer at Render who specializes in making complex technical concepts accessible and actionable. With a background spanning data science, technical writing, and support engineering, they bring hands-on experience in deploying and debugging real-world applications. Shifra has taught over 135K+ Crash Course learners and holds a deep passion for creating breakthrough moments when deployment strategies and developer tools finally click. She excels at bridging the gap between technical teams and practical implementation.

Marko is a Solutions Engineer for Yugabyte Cloud, he works with Yugabyte cloud customers to successfully build high throughput applications using the Yugabyte Cloud database.

Dünya Kırkalı is an engineering leader and software engineer whose journey spans building mobile apps, web services, data pipelines, and visualizations across diverse industries and teams. This breadth of experience shaped him into a true generalist, an asset when leading engineers from different disciplines. It also set him on the path to the field he fell in love with: engineering management. Left to his own devices, Dünya enjoys putting on a Joe Pass record and reflecting on ways to create tools and techniques to help engineering managers discover their own global maxima.

Sohan is a Lead Developer Advocate at AuthZed, based in the Netherlands. He started his career as a developer building mobile apps and has been living in the cloud since 2013, in companies such as Amazon, Fermyon and Gupshup. He is also an O' Reilly author, having created a course on Cloud Concepts for Everyone. He has always been interested in emerging technologies and how it shapes the world around us.

Mobile Engineering Manager at Shopify

Engineering Manager @ Shopify

Lenny is a Solutions Architect at Apollo Graph in San Francisco, CA. He was previously a software engineer and graph champion at Square. When he’s not thinking and talking endlessly about GraphQL and frontend, he’s probably trying to recreate some dish from a YouTube cooking video or hanging out with his wife and son.

Johan Eliasson is CEO & Co-Founder of Nhost. Johan has been building apps his whole life and is passionate about making it easy to develop web and mobile apps. Prior to Nhost, Johan helped grow his family business, driving innovation in the Swedish water treatment market. Johan graduated from Blekinge Institute of Technology with a Master of Science in Computer Security, Computer & Information Systems.

Senior Developer at Wunder.

Chinmay is a Technical Evangelist at Epsagon with experience in data center and cloud technologies. Previously, he worked at companies such as Intel, IBM and early-stage startups. Chinmay has an MS in Computer Science from Columbia University and an MBA from UC Berkeley. In his free time, he loves traveling and exploring restaurants.

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

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.

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

Ulrich-Matthias grew up in the open-source world and is the maintainer of svg.js. He made his hobby his job and now works as a freelancer and consultant in the web space. As an open-source enthusiast, he's a proud member of the e18e community and a Vue fanboy.

Located in the vibrant city of San Francisco, Mike Poteat is a committed technical leader, skilled software engineer, and approachable people manager. His areas of interest are wide-ranging and encompass programming, type theory, pure mathematics, and more. In the open-source world, Mike has had the opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects. One of these, hkt-toolbelt, applies higher-kinded types to TypeScript in an attempt to expand its functionality. Additionally, he's worked on spellbound, an agent-based LLM-powered VS Code extension that aims to enhance the usability of the platform. Currently, Mike finds himself immersed in the voice AI industry at a startup backed by Y Combinator. He's part of a team working on the front lines of artificial intelligence, continually learning and evolving their approach to create cutting-edge solutions. Away from his day job, Mike takes time to reflect and share his experiences on his blog, code.lol. He delves into topics around machine learning, programming, and other tech-related subjects, hoping that his musings might offer value to others exploring these fields.

DevRel & Node.js core collaborator