JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

I'm a seasoned software developer with a passion for creating engaging developer experiences. As a Developer Experience Engineer at Chromatic, I'm dedicated to improving integrations in the Storybook ecosystem, making it easier for developers to build high-quality UIs with confidence. In addition to my technical expertise, I'm an advocate for education and empowering developers to reach their full potential. When I'm not coding, you can find me jamming on my bass or spending quality time with my Great Danes, Zola and Noodles.

Lorenzo Dal Col is the Vulkan and OpenGL Conformance Test Suite tech lead at Khronos and a software consultant specialising in 3D graphics. Over more than fifteen years he has built high-performance software and led engineering teams. He was product manager for ARM's Mali GPU developer tools and has architected real-time 3D engines for VR and AR. He works across Vulkan, OpenGL and Metal, mobile performance, and computer vision, and now builds development processes around AI agents. He is based in Italy and has spoken at GDC, Google I/O, and Nordic Game.

Dr. Fabio Dias is the Programme Director of the FinTech and Policy MSc at the University of Surrey and a researcher for the SAEF Centre. A multidisciplinary academic with a background in computer science and statistics, he holds a PhD in Econometrics from University College London (UCL). Before his current academic tenure, Dr. Dias acquired extensive industry experience, holding senior roles in technology and risk management at major financial institutions, including Credit Suisse and Lloyds Banking Group. His research interests lie at the intersection of finance and technology, specifically focusing on financial modelling, artificial intelligence applications in finance, and quantitative risk management.

Engineering Manager with 15 years of industry experience, leading Conversational AI at Flo Health.

Julia is a Software Developer at ec0lint, a tool for frontend developers which mitigates the carbon footprint of websites. Besides, she works as a Software Engineer at Akamai. She is also a laureate of the IT for SHE program. In her free time, Julia practices yoga and makes handcrafted candles.

Brittany is a product engineer working on AI for the Atmosphere, the web of open sites where users own their data instead of major tech platforms. She was previously a staff engineer at GitHub and has focused for years on building up career and mentoring programs for other tech employees around her through meetups, blog posts, and her podcast Overcommitted.

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.

I am a Senior Software Engineer specializing in frontend architecture, enterprise SaaS platforms, and developer tooling. An alumnus of IIT Guwahati, I have led frontend engineering pods building data annotation engines used by global tech leaders, architected configuration-driven UI frameworks, and founded an automation ERP platform. Currently building AI-native cloud systems at Nava, my work focuses on React, TypeScript, state management, and crafting performant component ecosystems that bridge technical rigor with exceptional user experience.

Edoardo is a Tech Lead at Meticulous. Previously, he was a software engineer at Lacework and GitHub and holds a PhD from Imperial College London, where his research focused on the verification and safety of AI systems.

Alex Hawker is a Software Engineer on the GameSnacks team at Google, where he works on bringing exciting new experiences to the web gaming space. Before that, he worked to bring new GIF features to Gboard, Google’s virtual keyboard.

Engineer Graduate, Software testing ISTQB certified and professional experience as a Software Developer. Current Solutions Engineer as Snyk.

Eric Tech is a Vancouver-based creator and AI agency founder who teaches practical AI tools and app building on YouTube. His sessions focus on live demonstrations, useful workflows and an honest look at what works and where human review is needed.

Abhishek Gawande is a product management and enterprise technology leader at Okta with over 15 years of experience in enterprise software, cloud platforms and SaaS product development. He has led product and technology initiatives at Okta, Adobe, and Apttus with a focus on building scalable customer-facing platforms, self-service experiences and enterprise systems that improve adoption, efficiency and business outcomes. He is a Salesforce Certified Application Architect and holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business, California.

I'm an infrastructure engineer at Perplexity, specializing in secure sandboxing, runtime state management, and engineering automation for autonomous AI agents. I designed Perplexity's "Search as Code" sandboxed environments, which allow agents to safely write and execute complex data-retrieval pipelines. Most recently, I pioneered the automated verification and shadow-testing frameworks used to safely migrate core search pathways from legacy Python to high-performance Rust -successfully deleting 50,000 lines of code under live production traffic with zero regressions.

Tucker Chapin is a Software Engineer on Render's Expansion team, which helps large customers scale and evolve their applications by expanding the product to meet increasingly complex needs. His team owns a core slice of that surface, including builds, deploys, artifacts, static IPs, and ephemeral shells, the tools sophisticated teams rely on to ship and manage applications with confidence. Before Render, Tucker worked at ShopMy, Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, and Staked, building his experience across fast-moving startups. Earlier in his career, he worked as a React & React Native Developer, building hands-on frontend experience that still informs how he thinks about developer-facing tooling today. On Expansion, he works at the intersection of infrastructure and customer experience to ensure that as businesses outgrow simpler tooling, Render is ready to grow with them.

Muhammad Anjum is a Software Development Manager at Amazon in London, where he leads the engineering team behind Amazon's Retail Catalog Orchestration —the systems behind the product detail page for every item on Amazon. Over the past year, he has been leading initiatives to transform systems in his wider org to be AI-ready. Before Amazon, Muhammad managed teams in Medical Tech and Indoor Positioning Systems domains and built ML powered recommendation systems. He studied Artificial Intelligence at Heriot-Watt University. Outside of work, Muhammad spends time pondering upon how our wonderful Universe operates, with a keen interest in Cosmology and Quantum Physics, when he is not busy co-parenting two wonderful toddlers.

Javier Alcaide is a mathematician and software developer focused on data science and machine learning. His professional career is based on the use of advanced analytics and big data techniques within the financial sector. His current role is the design and construction of AI models and the analysis of data using ETL processing with Big Data technologies.

Developer of lynx-ui for the Lynx family of technologies. Cat enthusiast. Focused on building purr-fect components for Lynx.

Aleksei Petrov is a CTO and the co-founder of QuantFlow Studio. Anthropic Claude Community Ambassador. Uses Claude Code daily to ship production software. Author of Pilot – a top rated open-source autonomous coding agent. Navigator, a Claude Code plugin for context engineering. Based in Podgorica, Montenegro.

Frédéric Harper is a seasoned Developer Advocate with over 20 years in tech, currently Senior Developer Relations Manager at Tiugo Technologies specializing in TinyMCE rich text editor. Fred has held developer advocacy roles at industry giants such as Microsoft, Mozilla, Fitbit, and npm. He's spoken at hundreds of events globally and authored a book on personal branding for developers at Apress.

Self-learner and passionated about web development since the age of 15, I have a strong background in frontend development and especially with Vue.js and the Jamstack.

Henry is a Senior Solution Engineer at Netlify based out of London, UK. He is a keen technologist with a background in modern composable web applications, physics, digital simulation and sentient computing.

J. B. Rainsberger (@jbrains@mastodon.social) is a professional 5-pin bowler who enjoys consulting with software development professionals and the companies that employ them. He guides companies to better results from their software projects while he helps individuals work with less stress. He wants everyone to actually realize the promised benefits of Lightweight approaches to software development, which includes making sense of the "Agile" chaos of the past quarter-century. Companies engage him for remote working sessions, training courses, on-site workshops, and in-person consulting visits. Individuals, especially those stuck in companies that don't have the budget for formal consulting, can get the help they need by joining J. B.'s mentoring group by visiting https://experience.jbrains.ca. (Quite often, they can convince their employer to pay for that!) He lives in Atlantic Canada with his wife, Sarah, who is busy showing the Open Source world how to have quality documentation even with a mostly-volunteer project community. They travel to Europe less often than they used to, which makes each visit even more enjoyable.

Shaundai is a front end Senior Software Engineer (Netflix) based in Georgia, US. Through her work as a course instructor (tsforjs.com) and her YouTube channel (youtube.com/shaundai), she aims to make programming interesting and approachable for all.