JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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..

Oleksandr Tryshchenko - Senior Engineering Manager @ Personio He has experience with micro-frontends across three SaaS companies. Initiated and led the migration of FreshBooks from a monolithic UI to a micro-frontends architecture. Currently, he serves as a Senior Engineering Manager at Personio, where he leads the efforts to migrate the entire organization, which encompasses over 130 micro-frontends, to a new design system.

Nancy is a Millennial Executive at a Fortune 500 company as well as a certified Executive and Career Coach. With a 15-year career in innovative startups and large companies, she understands the challenges of Modern Leadership intimately. Nancy works with modern leaders to navigate their career and leadership with more confidence, purpose, and impact.

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!

Iker Jusue is a freelance advisor, consultant, and people leader in the UK and Spain. He has more than 10 years of professional experience leading talent acquisition and human resources teams and projects across Europe and North America, specializing in sourcing, operations, talent insights, diversity, employer branding, and HR technology. He has worked with companies such as Microsoft, McKinsey, IQVIA, Oracle, or ThoughtWorks, or start-ups as Alan, Casumo, and Silicon Gears (TTTech Auto). He is also the first non-native English speaker to win the SourceCon Grandmaster title in 20191, as well as the first Sourcing Summit Europe Hackathon winner in 20172. He helps business and HR leaders to enhance their teams and strategies with his expertise and guidance in people and talent acquisition. He is passionate about finding innovative solutions for the challenges of the modern workforce.

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.

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.

Senior Product Designer at FUIB and founder of ux-news.com

Senior Frontend Developer & Freelancer

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.

Viola is a senior software engineer with over eight years of experience, focused on production reliability and security for modern web applications. She works across frontend, backend, and delivery pipelines, with a particular focus on authentication, observability, and testing strategies that prevent incidents. She is a Cypress Ambassador, speaks regularly at community events, and runs weekly workshops for engineers contributing to open-source projects.

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.

Co-founder and CTO of Fairstay, a prop-tech marketplace that lets renters pay for housing with cash, skills, or both. Before that, I spent three years at Gamitar, Evivve’s multiplayer platform for leadership training, where I led the shift from a single-facilitator product to one serving enterprise clients like Apple, Dell, Deloitte, Netflix, Microsoft, PwC, and Amazon. That migration tripled paid credit purchases and grew transaction volume 550%. At Mythos Labs, I was the sole technical architect on two humanitarian games built with YouTube, UN Women Asia-Pacific, and the Government of Japan, reaching 52,000 students and at-risk women across India, Myanmar, and Thailand. I’ve also co-founded Studio oofDa, written about self-hosted AI architecture for The AI Journal and Silicon Valleys Journal, and build with TypeScript, React, Node.js, AWS, Docker, Redis, SQL, Unity, C#, C++, and Python.

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.

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.

Fadila Fidina is a Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian, specialising in frontend engineering and delivering customer impact through experimentation. She’s passionate about crafting delightful user experiences and deeply values collaboration and people. When not at the keyboard, Fadila bakes, paints, and photographs — exploring the creative side of life in all its forms.

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.

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.

Sachin Malhotra is an engineer at Anthropic, where he works on the continuous-integration infrastructure that Anthropic's engineers build and ship on. Keeping CI healthy at a frontier AI lab used to mean a pager and a long queue of toil; today most of that day-to-day runs through a fleet of Claude agents that triage incidents, watch rollouts, review changes, and draft the work, while Sachin sets direction, checks their output, and makes the calls only a human should. He has spoken about agent-driven engineering at the Tech Crunch Disrupt 2026 and has taught hands-on sessions on working with Claude to thousands of engineers at enterprise companies. Previously, he lead machine learning infrastructure at Etsy and DNS systems at Microsoft.

Katarzyna is the Co-founder and CEO of ec0lint - a tool for frontend developers that mitigates the carbon footprint of websites. On top of that, she works as a Project Manager in the nanotechnology company Nanores. Her focus lies on diamonds and vacuum sensors. Katarzyna enjoys cooking Asian food and visiting art exhibitions in her free time.

Lianwen Wu is the creator and maintainer of ReactUse (@reactuses/core), an open-source collection of 100+ React hooks with first-class TypeScript and SSR support. Lianwen writes about React performance, build tooling, and hook design at https://www.google.com/url?q=http://reactuse.com&source=gmail&ust=1787306103875000&sa=E.

Eevis is a software developer and accessibility specialist based in Finland. She loves sharing information about topics like accessibility, React and GraphQL, and is active in different communities aiming to increase equality in the tech field in Finland. When not coding, she explores the world around her with a kayak.

Andorra-based full stack engineer with 14+ years of experience.Andorra-based full stack engineer with 14+ years of experience. The products I've helped build have reached millions of people around the globe, from ride-hailing platforms to celebrity marketplaces to content discovery apps. I architect for scale, business growth, and developer experience, because I believe great products come from the place where design quality and engineering rigor meet. I thrive in fast-moving teams, and I bring a track record of shipping products that users love and businesses rely on. I'm a TDD fanatic, and I'm having a blast using AI to sharpen my thinking process so we can build well-considered, business driven experiences.

Hapi.js contributor