JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Sai Ekbote is a Software Engineer currently leading engineering for GraphQL at Solo.io. He has contributed to multiple open source projects such as Istio, Envoy and Flagger.

5+ years experience building React/ React Native applications. Currently a Front End Engineer part of the team responsible for Babbel's lesson trainers and interactions. Cofounder of the charity Little World.

Founder and Principal Advisor at Forthright (https://twitter.com/forthright_tech).

Brandon is a full stack engineer who finds enjoyment working with Kotlin. When not working, he frequently gets outside to snowboard or mountain bike. He also enjoys tinkering with smart home technology.

Chris has a background as a web developer. He previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at a company that used Sentry for error monitoring. Chris liked the product so much that he decided to come work for Sentry and make finding and fixing bugs easier for other developers.

I have woven application development into my entire career, from time in the U.S. Army and U.S. Government to stints with the Big Four, the world's largest cloud services provider, and smaller startups. I have started my own company – twice – once providing consulting services and most recently with WorkFone, a software as a service startup that provided virtual digital identities to government clients. I love to build in public with Go and all things serverless!

Taylor is a Solutions Engineer who leads the new Yugabyte Cloud sales engineering effort helping small and large companies alike modernize their legacy databases. He has a strong passion for distributed databases having worked with them for most of his career.

Currently, Robert Hostlowsky is working as a developer, coach and systems engineer. He published an online video course about developing a full-stack GraphQL application online-course. He loves DevOps culture on modern cloud infrastructure, uses the latest state-of-the-art web technologies, and loves how it plays nicely together at minimum effort and cost. He loves web technologies. Feeling being a part of the developer community he is co-organizing the JSCraftcamp, Munich.

Lean is a lead software engineer, communication advocate, and coach. He enjoys breaking the rules of the status quo, by finding new ways of doing things and lighting a spark in someone's eyes. He loves his family, friends, and craft beer 🍺❤️ If you want to know more about him and how he interacts with people, you should check his personal user manual at https://utopian-milk-855.notion.site/Lean-Vilas-Personal-User-Manual-2b62091ec3dd40939ad10688def5e91d

Bob is CEO and co-founder of SeMI Technologies, the business created around the open-source vector search engine Weaviate. Besides SeMI and Weaviate. Bob is a frequent speaker on the topics of open source, digital technology, software business, and creativity. He has spoken at around 100 events on the aforementioned topics in Europe, the US, and Russia.

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

I'm Shubham, a Software Engineer at Headout who loves to experiment with different technologies and use them to create useful applications. I'm particularly fond of TypeScript, Web Performance, Frontend Tooling and I'm always ready to engage in a friendly debate on the topic of aliens' existence. As an engineer, I'm passionate about continuous learning and personal growth, and I always make sure to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in my field. Collaborating with my colleagues and learning from their expertise is something I enjoy. I'm always looking for ways to improve my own skills and contribute to the success of the team.

Software Developer | Speaker | Writer | Cat mom | Dancer

Nick is an empathetic community member, full-stack developer, avid climber and cyclist. He is currently a Senior Developer Advocate at Viam where he helps people build and manage their hardware projects from anywhere in the world. He is an invited expert with TC53 to help shape the future of JS on things. In his free time, he tinkers with home automation and robots built with JavaScript. His mustache is a figment of your imagination.

Jan is a lead developer at &why and passionate about creating an engineering culture that allows everyone to do their best work. In his free time, he creates a digital atlas of the world's wine regions.

I am a strong full stack developer, and a Ruby on Rails enthusiast. I'm passionate about formalized SDL processes, and clean, well-tested code. Having worked on the monolith that is the Words With Friends backend service at Zynga, I've architected, developed and deployed features that have been used by millions of concurrent users. I'm a huge supporter of University of Toronto, and an Arbor Award recipient. I guest lecture when I can, mentor students through the Alumni Mentorship program, and volunteer at numerous interview prep workshops, panels, and networking events for students.

Nick Teets is a software developer and musician based in Denver. Nick found his passion for connecting people using technology after spending summers in the Sandhills of Nebraska establishing a multimedia journalism nonprofit. Through an interactive website, the project told the stories of the communities of the area with audio, video, photos, and text. This early foray in journalism taught him about the intersection of empathy, technology, and storytelling, and would lead him to a career in frontend software development, creating beautiful and accessible user experiences to connect people across the world.

Roy Tal is a cloud and DevOps enthusiast who loves to build tool that will make infrastructure operations better for everyone. Today he is a team leader and founding team member at Firefly who are helping solve infrastructure drift in large-scale cloud operations. Before that he served as a backend developer at Dome9, building better security practices into cloud operations, that has been acquired by Check Point.

Software Engineer @Sentry

Tom is the Chief Product Officer at Vercel leading Engineering, Product, and Design. Previously he spent over 12 years at Facebook where he led development of the company’s core JavaScript Infra, shaped its open source program, and was responsible for the creation and development of React and React Native. He enjoys traveling, dance music, fancy cocktails, and simple food.

Daniel Goren is a lead researcher at Evinced, a pioneering company specializing in automating the detection of accessibility violations. With 6 years of experience and a deep passion for accessibility, Daniel is committed to driving innovation and best practices in the industry.

Erik van der Voort has been working in Information Technology for over 25 years now. Starting as a developer, he moved to other roles like technical and functional designer and project- and portofolio-management. Quite some years ago, he discovered engineering was what made him really happy so since then he has been working in several Ops- and DevOps-roles within ING. For the past five years Erik is one of the engineers within the Fruitloops-team. This team of engineers mainly focuses on building and deploying front-end applications on a global scale within the company.

Robert is a Ruby developer specializing in APIs, application design, and performance. Besides maintaining GraphQL-Ruby, he enjoys fermenting anything he can get his hands on.

Marco is a Data Scientist at the Samsung R&D Institute UK. Outside of work, he is a maintainer of pandas (data wrangling platform for Python widely adopted in the scientific computing community) and author of nbQA (code quality tool for Jupyter Notebooks). He holds an MSc in Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science from the University of Oxford.