JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Kate is a Full Stack Developer and Engineering Mentor, obsessed with regular expressions, books, and web technologies. In her work, she mixes old with new, soft with hard, cats with dogs. When it’s not a disaster, it’s pure magic!

Victoria based developer, loves rock climbing and running and playing piano.

Asparuh Hristov, AI Craft Lead and Engineering Manager, having a life-long passion for optimization, learning, and content-to-word ratio minimizer.

Kevin Lamping is a Front-end Engineer and Tester. He runs a course on automated testing at http://learn.webdriver.io and has a YouTube Tutorial Channel (Front-end Testing with Kevin Lamping). In his free-time, when he's not playing with his kids, Kevin dabbles in tabletop gaming, disc golf and gardening.

Lachlan Bradford is a Tech Lead at Tiktok and a core contributor to the Tiktok's design system TUX. He is forward thinking; having worked with VR and AR technology, and enjoys implementing a challenging design.

Developer Experience at OpenAI.

Julia is a Software Global Black Belt at Microsoft, helping large-scale organizations accelerate dev workflows through pragmatic, end-to-end platform engineering. With a background as a Software Engineer, Dev Lead, and Cloud Solution Architect, she speaks fluent developer and management—and knows how to bridge the gap without losing either side in translation. She’s a big-picture thinker who also loves to understand the details. Web and frontend will always have a place in her ❤️. Outside work, Julia is a gamer, a proud fahrradmaus, and a former quarterback for a women’s American football team (yes, really). On Wednesdays, she smashes the patriarchy.

I am Saman Abaasi, a Frontend Engineer from Tehran, Iran, with more than 7 years of experience working with React and TypeScript. I am currently a Staff Frontend Engineer and Squad Lead at MTN Irancell, where I lead a small team building a Camunda-based workflow platform that is replacing a long-running Huawei OWS production system. Before MTN I was a Senior Frontend Engineer at Digikala, Iran's largest e-commerce platform, leading UIKit development across 60+ components. I spend my free time reading source code and writing about it. I have published three in-depth technical series: "How JavaScript Works" (10 parts), "How React Works Under the Hood" (9 parts, source-verified against React's internals), and a 23-part series on extending bpmn-io form-js in production. Published on dev.to, JavaScript in Plain English, and StackAcademia. I am an invited speaker at React Day Berlin 2026 (December 4 & 7, GitNation), where this will be my first conference talk.

Material Science Engineer, DevOps turned Solution engineer with Snyk.

Astro core maintainer & web developer.

Nihan Bircan is a Senior Engineering Manager at Flo Health in London, leading a team of iOS, Android, and backend engineers building AI-driven health and wellbeing features for one of the world's leading women's health apps. Her work includes cross-company integrations with Oura, Google Health Connect, and Apple HealthKit to improve ML-based cycle predictions. With 15 years in software development and 8 years in leadership, Nihan has held roles at Spotify, Microsoft, and Schibsted. At Flo, she launched initiatives recovering significant lost revenue, drove gamification features that meaningfully lifted premium activation and retention, and delivered the company's first marketable perimenopause product achieving multi-million dollar revenue targets.

I have over six years of experience in designing and developing dynamic websites with interactive features that drive business growth and improve user experience. I use React.js with Next.js in frontend development, creating static site generation (SSG) and server-side rendering (SSR) pages, and refactoring projects from Angular.js to React.js. I also use Redux for state management, Cypress for end-to-end, integration, and component testing, and Tailwind.css and Material-UI for building custom themes. I am passionate about web performance and SEO optimization, and I use Webpack, Gulp, Babel, and Eslint to implement best practices and solutions. I also work with API-centric design approach, use CSS3 and HTML5 for designing websites, and use JavaScript ES6+ features to develop the entire website. I have experience in checking pull requests, implementing Scrum strategies, and collaborating with other frontend teams.

Oz is a Game Dev Evangelist at Backtrace, A Sauce Labs Company. He has over 15 years of experience in the game industry in various senior technical roles in gaming and software engineering. His major interests are emerging tech, machine learning and creating new tech products involving gaming or gamified applications.

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.

Solutions Engineer | Helping companies develop fast & stay secure @ Snyk

Wesley Fuchter is Director of Software Engineering at Modus Create, where he spends his time turning AI coding tool experiments into organization-wide practice. After leading a structured A/B experiment that demonstrated a 40% reduction in development time, his focus shifted to the harder challenge: getting a full engineering team to actually leverage agentic coding. His team built the knowledge-sharing systems, workshops, and practical resource libraries that are driving the shift. With 14+ years in cloud architecture, enterprise modernization, and engineering leadership across healthcare, fintech, and Fortune 100 organizations, Wesley brings a practitioner's perspective, including what didn't work. He holds the AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification and has previously spoken at worldwide tech conferences.

Tech Lead @ Attest.

Passionate about improving testing practices and supporting projects to improve its quality.

Frontend Engineer at Netflix, where he builds internal products that support the lifecycle of movies and TV series - from planning and production to launch and promotion. With 7 years of experience in software engineering and a background in aerospace engineering, he is passionate about developer productivity, product-minded engineering, and practical applications of GenAI.

GraphQL Technical Steering Committee, Principal Software Engineering Manager at PayPal.

Gal is the Director of Engineering at Epsagon. Gal has a background in cyber-security, with experience in reverse engineering, networks analysis, and was part of an army elite intelligence-unit before joining Epsagon.

Product Manager at heart. Noa’s forte is creating products specially made for engineers and tech-savvy geeks. With her strong technical background as a former software engineer, her main passion is to simplify complicated technological pains into intuitive solutions and easy-to-use products that anyone can understand and use. She is currently the Lead Product Manager for the Wix CLI. She is a public speaking enthusiast and won't miss an opportunity to present her products in front of an audience.

Sylwia is a Senior JavaScript Developer with over a decade of experience. She has worked on a wide range of projects, from greenfield applications to complex migrations. As a Tech Lead, she focuses on helping teams modernize legacy codebases and build sustainable solutions.

Yishai Beeri likes to solve problems, and that’s why he was so fascinated with programming when first encountered Logo back in the 80s, where the possibilities seemed endless. He has made it a focus of his career to solve complex programming problems, both as a consultant and entrepreneur. In 2014 he joined the CTO office of a fast-moving cloud security startup, which later was acquired by a networking giant. At this startup he also met Ori Keren and Dan Lines, now co-founders of LinearB. He joined them shortly after the company was established, in order to get back to what he loves most about engineering, solving big challenges, and this time he is focusing on the world of Dev Productivity and Experience. He is also the host of the very successful Hebrew Podcast - Dev Interrupted.