JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Explore personalities and their talks, workshops, videos, and articles. While we focus primarily on JavaScript and frameworks like React, Vue, Svelte, and Node, you may find experts on other fields on our Portal. To name a few – Testing, DevOps, Machine Learning, and many more!
Mario Vercellotti
Mario Vercellotti
Wunder, Finland
Senior Developer at Wunder.
Chinmay Gaikwad
Chinmay Gaikwad
Epsagon, USA
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.
Anna Filipyonok
Anna Filipyonok
Senior Marketing Manager, Georgia
Anna is a visionary, performance-driven marketing professional with a decade of experience building and leading dynamic marketing teams at technology companies. Anna holds a steadfast belief that the evolution of technology paves the way for societal progress and reinforces the essence of humanitarian ideals. Skilled in harnessing the power of artificial intelligence in marketing, she sees it as a key to enhancing outcomes while streamlining resources and efforts. WomenInTech Mentor helping women break into the tech field with expert mentoring advice and support.
Valerii Iatsko
Valerii Iatsko
Google, Switzerland
With 15+ years spanning distributed systems, real-time data infrastructure, and high-performance UIs across Google, Microsoft, Spotify, and Booking.com, Valerii is passionate about developer experience, low-latency systems, and bridging the gap between complex backend architectures and intuitive user-facing products.
Phil Hawksworth
Phil Hawksworth
Deno, UK
Phil is Head of Developer Relations at Deno. With a passion for browser technologies, and the empowering properties of the web, he loves seeking out ingenuity and simplicity, especially in places where over-engineering is common. After 25 years of building web applications for companies such as Google, Apple, Nike, R/GA, and The London Stock Exchange, Phil has worked to challenge traditional technical architectures in favour of simplicity and effectiveness. Phil is co-author of “Modern Web Development on the Jamstack” (O’Reilly, 2019).
Ilia Chernetskii
Ilia Chernetskii
Evolution, Tallinn, Estonia
Ilia has been working as a Web Developer since 2008 and has rich experience in creating complex web applications and writing reliable client and server-side application logic in JavaScript. He worked both in a large corporation and in a small company, where he realized how to make decisions, take responsibility and manage a team. Created his own startup, which he successfully sold. Passionate about computer science, mathematics and finding answers to challenging questions. He always has high demands for the quality of his own code and does not compromise in terms of the logic and speed of the code. He loves minimalism in code, design, and life.
Gabriel Schulhof
Gabriel Schulhof
Auction.com, USA
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.
Mateusz Jagodziński
Mateusz Jagodziński
Workflow Builder, Poland
Mateusz is a Principal Software Developer at Workflow Builder with seven years of experience in React. He specializes in building data visualization solutions and interactive diagramming interfaces. He combines technical expertise with a business focus to develop practical, high-impact applications.
Samiul Huque
Samiul Huque
Bloomberg, USA
Samiul Huque is a senior software engineer at Bloomberg, where he works on the company’s Instant Bloomberg (IB for short) chat tool. He works across the stack, building full-stack products where he primarily uses a combination of JavaScript/TypeScript and Python. Outside of work, Samiul plays tennis, competes in MMA, and eats his steak medium rare. Samiul earned his bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from the University of Richmond.
Nonso Otoh
Nonso Otoh
Konrad Group, Canada
Nonso is a developer, writer, and tinkerer that enjoys pushing the boundaries of web development. He has a passion for creating software that empowers others to bring their ideas to life. Currently, he is a senior software developer at Konrad Group, where he actively builds solutions for various clients in the digital space. When he's not at his desk developing, you can find him rocking climbing, jumping out of airplanes, and seeing what new photography gear he can get his hands on!
Matt Seccafien & Simon Lenz
Matt Seccafien & Simon Lenz
DeepL, Germany
Matt Seccafien In the 20 years since studying in my homeland of Canada, I've held a variety of professional roles, starting out in traditional print, typography and information design, to site resiliency engineering, to open-source React framework development, and I'm currently interested in design system operations. I value creativity and autonomy in both life and work, and thrive when I am invested in the whole idea rather than any single facet. When not at my computer I can be found running around Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin, at the kino or hanging out with my partner Fiona and our cat Otto. Simon Lenz Hi, I’m Simon, a developer from Kaiserslautern, Germany. I work at DeepL on breaking down language barriers. Accessibility is a particular interest of mine, because we should bring everyone along in that process. I like hiking in the beautiful Pfälzerwald and, these days, also enjoy playing the flute, editing the magazine of a historical board game society, and strolling across Tamriel as my Khajiit.
Aleksandr Shinkarev
Aleksandr Shinkarev
Tourmaline Core, CEO, Kazakhstan, Astana
Develop professionally for 14 years. Worked as a team lead at Deloitte and Nielsen. Currently I lead my own tech company Tourmaline Core. I am passionate about people self-development culture at tech. I am a PhD.
Jacob Smith
Jacob Smith
Node.js Core Collaborator. TC39 & WinterTC / TC55 Delegate, Netherlands
Hailing from Vancouver, Canada, now living in Holland, Jacob is an avid API designer. He is a core collaborator of Node.js (loaders/modules, test runner, and userland migrations teams), TC39 and WinterTC / TC55 delegate, and author of several npm packages. Outside of engineering, he's known for cats, wine, and brunch.
Alon Segal
Alon Segal
monday.com, Israel
Alon is a Software Engineering Team Lead at Monday.com with over a decade of experience in the software industry. Prior to joining monday.com, he worked at companies such as at Intel, BrightSource, and MyHeritage, specializing in Frontend development before transitioning to leadership roles in 2020. Alon is passionate about "doing the right things right," combining architectural guidance with empathetic leadership to help his team reach their full potential. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in his spare time, loves to travels the world with his wife and kids, and as a true coffee enthusiast he manages a coffee community and develops shopping aid tools.
Michal Ziso
Michal Ziso
theZISO Creative Disruption Platform, Israel
Michal Ziso is an Earth & Space architect and systems thinker focused on how humans operate inside complex, high-risk environments. Her work explores responsibility, leadership, and human performance in chaotic systems operating at the edge. She is the founder of theZISO Creative Disruption platform, where she leads design, research, and advisory work that bridges the inherited world and the emerging. She is a global speaker reaching over 200K humans on stages such as TEDx, NASA, Dubai Future Forum, YPO and more.
Selam Moges
Selam Moges
Software Engineer, USA
I'm Selam and I'm currently a software engineer. I've always been fascinated by technology and its potential to make our lives better and more equitable. As an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), I'm committed to making tech a come inclusive place for everyone. I'm passionate about computer ethics and ensuring that technology is developed and used in ethical and responsible ways. I believe that technology can be a powerful force for good, but only if we approach it with a thoughtful and ethical mindset.
Jessie Auguste
Jessie Auguste
CybSafe, UK
Jessie Auguste is an award-winning Software Engineer at CybSafe and co-founder of Glowing in Tech, a community platform empowering underrepresented voices in technology. As a sought-after speaker and conference host, she's delivered talks globally for LeadDev, codebar, Docker, and conferences including React Miami and DevConf South Africa. She's currently completing her Msc in Computer Science at the University of Bath.
Lena Reinhard
Lena Reinhard
Executive & Leadership Coach, Germany
Lena Reinhard (Website, LinkedIn) is an engineering leadership coach, mentor, and organizational developer supporting technology leaders in growing themselves and succeeding in the complexity of engineering organizations. Previously, Lena served as VP Engineering with CircleCI and Travis CI, and a SaaS startup co-founder & CEO, and has dedicated her career to helping leaders and their organizations excel in times of high change and challenging markets. She has worked with a broad variety of companies at all stages, from startups pre-founding and bootstrapped, scale-ups, to late-stage/pre-IPO and VC-funded ventures, to corporations and NGOs. Find her writing on leadership and more about her work at lenareinhard.com.
Dario Piotrowicz
Dario Piotrowicz
Cloudflare, UK
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
Jen Person
Squid Cloud, USA
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.
Robin Marx
Robin Marx
Akamai Technologies, Belgium
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.
Charly Gomez
Charly Gomez
Sentry, Software Engineer, Austria
Charly Gomez joined Sentry in 2024 as a Software Engineer. He builds, breaks, fixes and maintains Sentry's JavaScript SDKs out of the city of Vienna, while having also lived several years in Spain and Italy. Charly enjoys salsa dancing, and plays a host of sports, including sailing, padel, cycling, football and is a CrossFit enthusiast.
Jiri Lojda
Jiri Lojda
Kontent.ai, Czech Republic
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.
Andreia Ocanoaia
Andreia Ocanoaia
Genezio, Romania
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.