JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

JavaScript developer with full-stack experience and frontend passion. Interests: web components, AI, rowing, improv theatre

Francisca Medina (frani.be) is a front-end developer, UX strategist, and lecturer at the **Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC)**, the country's leading university and a benchmark for excellence across Latin America, where she teaches **Creative Programming for Design**, **Generative Artificial Intelligence** and **Computational Thinking**. Her work lives at the intersection of logic and aesthetics: she transforms code into a tool for sensory artistic expression. She is a **Google Women Techmakers Ambassador** and has spoken at international stages including **JSConf Budapest** (Hungary), **Nerdearla** (Argentina), **CaribeConf** (Colombia), **JSConf Chile**, and other. She believes code can be beautiful, useful, and deeply human. And that JavaScript, truly understood, is the infinite brush of the algorists of the future.

David Chicaiza is a senior front-end engineer from Bogotá, Colombia, and a React, NodeJS, and TypeScript enthusiast. He is currently based in Prague, creating data management solutions at Ataccama. David brings a blend of technical skills and public engagement to his role as an MC. When he's not working on software solutions, you might find him making music, playing chess, or traveling.

Max is the technical co-founder of Monadical, a software development consultancy focused on emerging technologies and AI solutions, and Developer Capital, an early stage AI investment corp.

A charismatic Lead Software Engineer on Pepr at Defense Unicorns is an architect and engineer focused on cloud native and hybrid cloud environments focused on solving problems of scale, latency, reliability and secure software delivery. Lover of coffee and improving the open source community.

Jonas spent years supporting startups as a React and Next.js freelancer. Now, he leverages his expertise as a Developer Success Engineer at Vercel to help customers succeed. When he's not programming, Jonas enjoys preparing the perfect espresso.

Joel is a CTO Coach who supports start-up and scale-up CTOs to successfully and confidently navigate the changes in their roles as their businesses evolve. He has over 20 years experience building, scaling and leading software development teams, mainly in start-ups, where he held both CTO and COO roles.

Karly Lamm is a Senior Mobile and Full Stack Web Engineer, currently serving as the Director of Strategic Software Solutions at Aviron Software. She has helped startups scale their products from early MVPs to acquisition, including one later acquired by Walmart. Karly specializes in JavaScript technologies with deep experience in React, React Native, and Angular. She is a strong advocate for accessible and inclusive code, with a passion for building products that work for everyone. In her current role, she partners with startups to design scalable solutions, mentor engineering teams, and implement thoughtful UI and accessibility practices that align with real-world user needs.

CEO @Devmy, DevRel Expert @Codemotion, Google Developer Expert (GDE), Microsoft MVP, Google Certified Developer, LEGO Serious Play Facilitator, Projects Manager, Software Engineer, Speaker/Evangelist/Trainer, AWS UG Lead Francesco is a Google Developer Expert, Google Certified Developer, Microsoft MVP ed AWS UG Leader and an accomplished programmer with several years of experience in enterprise programming , high skilled in web development (frontend and backend) and in team project management. I’ve worked for a long time as a employee and then as a freelancer, but nowadays I has my own company: Devmy – Software Factory (former Acadevmy), founded with my friend Andrea. He was also Content Manager and DevRel of Codemotion, the largest tech community in Europe with more than 200,000 developers, as well as the largest IT conference in Italy and one of the most important in Europe. I love reading comics (strictly Batman!), playing the drums, riding a motorbike, playing padel and spending a lot of time with his beloved family.

Karen Li is a concert pianist turned elementary school teacher turned software engineer. She is currently a software engineer at GitHub's npm team. Aside from engineering work, Karen blends education and technology by sharing her experience with the community. Her motto, "I invest in brains" captures her journey from teaching to tech empowerment.

Noam Zingboim is a seasoned software engineer specializing in Node.js, JavaScript, and system design for scalable backend services. With experience ranging from architecting new products to maintaining critical systems, he focuses on building maintainable, reliable, and high-performance solutions.

George is a TechLead @ BlackRock with 12+ years of experience in the FinTech industry. He has architected, designed and build various systems, from data warehouses to large MFEs. He lives and breathes in the full stack space between Data and UX. Proven ability to architect, design, and implement complex solutions while fostering high-performing engineering cultures.

Fullstack Software Design Engineer at Mattermost. He has helped with the re-architecturing of the new version of the mobile app, written in React Native. Confident with React, React Native and Go, and always happy to learn new things. Fun fact: studying psychology for fun.

Working on @reactjs for the web. I currently work at Meta on cross-platform React frameworks. Our goal is to improve engineering efficiency and product quality, to reduce product time-to-market, and to produce high-quality native user interfaces from existing web code. The software we work on is used by products like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Oculus, and Workplace.

Kat works as Quality Engineer at Zoopla. Tried lots of paths: fine arts, comparative literature, social psychology and cognitive science studies before discovering the most enjoyable so far tech path. Kat solves automation testing challenges at work and jigsaw after work. Lives in Scotland.

Former Coding bootcamp instructor, Oracle cloud engineer, and current AWS developer working with Agentic AI. Transitioned career from biomedical sciences into tech after college. Passionate about developer productivity and success.

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.

Thomas is a software engineer in the GraphQL team at Neo4j where he usually works with Javascript, Typescript, Cypher, and of course GraphQL. Prior to joining the GraphQL team, Thomas was part of the team who builds Neo4j’s graph visualization product, Bloom. Whenever he closes the laptop for the day he makes sure to get out in nature, do all kinds of sports and read a good book.

Senior Software Engineer and consultant in Tektit Consulting. IT trainer at Infoshare Academy. Previously worked on Jira Cloud and Atlassian Forge. He talks and records stuff on Front-end and WebDevelopment related stuff.

Jean grew up in France, where he studied computer science and got his master’s degree from the Université de Technology de Compiègne, where he grew fond of web technologies. He moved to Berlin in 2016 and started working with vanilla JavaScript, jQuery, and Angular1 until he discovered React and thought, “Wow, this is how web apps should be built.” Those days he worked mainly with React at Babbel (the best learning language app! 😜)and loves creating enticing user experiences on the web, he has a soft spot for animations and delightful interactivity. In his free time, he loves to cook, make cocktails (ask for advice at your own risk), and play escape/board games.

Richard is a Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS focusing on Application modernization using Serverless and Containers. During his 3-year tenure at AWS he has played a pivotal role assisting partners & customers in various industries with their cloud adoption and modernization strategies. Richard collaborates with the development teams and engineering leaders to optimize software delivery in the cloud, emphasizing best practices and AWS's capabilities.

My name is Zoe Steinkamp and I am a Developer Advocate for influxData. I was a front end software engineer for over 6 years before I moved into a developer advocate role. I have been with InfluxDB for over 3 years and i look forward to sharing my knowledge of the platform and databases. I enjoy learning about awesome new technologies and doing at home tech projects to help make my life as well as other peoples lives easier. My passions besides new technology include traveling and gardening.

Zach is a builder for the web. He created Eleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator now full-time sponsored by Netlify. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 62 talks in eight different countries at events like Jamstack Conf, Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS.

Engineering Manager in UI Engineering at JP Morgan, Steve works with the core engineering teams creating open source developer tooling and an accessible React component library aimed at streamlining the life of development teams across the bank. Steve has working in JavaScript development focused roles since 2001 from ad agencies to fintech and IE6 through to evergreen Chrome, he is the author of several widely used open source libraries and describes his career as having been lucky enough to follow his hobby and his passion every day for over two decades.