JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Eric is a Solutions Engineer at Braintrust, helping engineering teams move AI from experiment to production through evaluation and observability. He previously spent a decade in pre-sales at AI and data startups, including Rasa and OmniSci (formerly MapD), where he was an early sales engineer. Earlier in his career, he designed electronic trading systems for fixed income at Lehman Brothers, and now focuses on turning real-world AI use cases into production systems.

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.

Amit Hanoch is a Tech Lead at monday.com with 10 years of experience in software engineering. A graduate of the Mamram unit with a B.Sc. in Computer Science, Amit focuses on navigating complex systems. His work focuses on making large-scale architectural shifts predictable and efficient through automation. In his spare time, Amit creates coffee videos online, where he explores the technical side of brewing the perfect cup.

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.

Melanie loves being a software engineer. The infinite loop of bugs, puzzles and learning make of everyday a new adventure. Her specialty and the love of her life is Vue.js, but lately she has been adding Nuxt.js and Node.js to the party. When she is not working as a software engineer at Capgemini, she uses her web development skills to remove micro plastic in the waters of the world. Her goal in this life is to work towards a more sustainable way of life, meaning that her hobbies include sailing the world, documenting underwater micro-life, and picking up trash with podcasts blasting. She is always trying on many different hats: trainer, team lead, community builder, talker, organizer. But the hat that fits best is developer.

Principal Engineer and active open source contributor. From Minsk, but now based in London and work at DAZN. I like playing around with TS, React, Redux, MobX/MST, RxJS, WebGL, Serverless, Node, Functional Programming with a focus on performance, system architecture and team productivity.

I am a Software Engineer at Figma, hailing from Leeds in the UK. I have always worked full stack but there is a special place in my heart for anything visual, which has lead me to my role on the Developer Tools team at Figma. What excites me about technology is being able to rapidly iterate on things and work with the smartest people around to build cool stuff! In my spare time I enjoy hanging out with my cat, oil painting and getting out into the countryside on my own two feet.

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.

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.

Shyam Swaroop is the maintainer and core developer of an open-source project, Atri engine - a new framework built on React. He is also the Co-Founder & CTO of Atri Labs - the company behind this project. He has worked as a software engineer in both academia and industry. His most recent engagement in academia was working with DARPA under the US Department of Defense as Graduate Research Assistant at Columbia University (USA). Previously, he has created software products that have yielded multi million dollars of revenue for his organization, EXL Services, a US-headquartered technology consulting firm. He studied Engineering from IIT, India and dropped out from graduate program in computer science at Columbia University, USA to work on his startup full-time.

Senior Software Engineer @ StackHawk

Ryan Albrecht is a frontend engineer at Sentry working on Session Replays. He’s built products and tools focusing on usability, engagement, and performance and now works at Sentry to improve workflows for developers.

As a youngster, I had an early interest in computers. I quickly learned to disassemble and reassemble my family's Tandy 1000 without much effort. This passion only grew as I got older. In college, I became very interested in helping to bridge the growing digital divide and started a student organization, Tech Serv, at Drexel University. After college, I started my career as a data analyst but quickly found a career in Product Management. Here, I was able to combine my love for technology with my passion for improving the lives of others. Since that time, I've been a product manager in a variety of industries including MarTech and HealthTech. Now at Docker, I hope to continue on my journey by improving the lives of developers and helping solve their daily challenges.

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.

Alex is an experienced marketer and screenwriter with over 10 years of experience. A natural storyteller, Alex spends her free time writing novels and screenplays and is driven through a constant need to be constantly learning professionally and personally. Originally from Texas, she has lived in New York City, and now Berlin, Germany.

Drishti is an Engineering Leader at Meta in the UK, with experience spanning both technical and people leadership across Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft. She has held roles as both a Staff Engineer and an Engineering Manager, giving her a broad perspective on engineering leadership, technical excellence, and building high-performing teams. Passionate about people growth and development, Drishti is an active mentor both within and beyond her organisations. She is particularly interested in helping engineers grow their careers, develop as leaders, and navigate the transition between technical and people leadership, especially in the new AI world.

Stefan Erschwendner is Managing Partner at Frontira, where he helps organisations turn domain knowledge and workflows into working software through Agentic Business Engineering. His focus is on moving coding agents beyond prototypes into real operations, with clear ownership, reliable execution and human oversight. Together with his father Gerhard, he initiated Lobster Lager, connecting AI assisted software development with brewing expertise and physical hardware.

A Computer Engineering MSc on Big Data and Cloud Computing with Hadoop and Hive at METU (Middle East Technical University). Here is my summary: * Big data and Cloud computing architect/researcher/developer * Low-level Java and JVM researcher/developer/hacker * AWS Technical and Business Consulting Partner * "Off-Heap Storage" and "Bytecode Instrumentation" Ninja * Oracle OpenSource Contributor * PhD candidate about Indexing on Hadoop and Hive * Always thinking on open-source project ideas

Alexandru-Daniel Tufa is the Engineering Manager for Developer Environments at Yelp and leads Yelp's AI Observability & Cost Controls initiative. He focuses on understanding what is actually being used, what is genuinely improving, and where guardrails should sit as AI adoption grows. His work spans developer tooling, measurement, data quality, and the operational decisions needed to make AI usage understandable and governable. He's based in the UK.

Antoine is a Software Engineer from France, working for Transloadit. His love for everything open source brought him to GitHub at an early age, and he has been a regular visitor and contributor ever since. He serves as a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, the esteemed governing body that oversees the popular runtime environment. When Antoine is not channeling his creative energy into technical projects, he enjoys playing the piano.

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.