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!

Jen Looper
Microsoft, USA
Jen is a Google Developer Expert and a Cloud Developer Advocate Lead at Microsoft with over 20 years' experience as a web and mobile developer, specializing in creating cross-platform mobile apps. Jen is a multilingual multiculturalist with a passion for hardware hacking, mobile apps, Vue.js, machine learning and discovering new things every day. I'm also the founder and CEO of Front-End Foxes, an international initiative and a 501(c)(3) nonprofit created to help women learn front-end technologies.

Swizec Teller
Plasmidsaurus, USA
Swizec is a software engineer, author, and conference speaker. He's published books on modern web technologies, data visualization, and productivity, and has trained engineering teams at companies big and small. He’s on a mission to distill 20 years of tacit experience into actionable steps.

Michel Weststrate
Meta, UK
Open source fanatic, speaker and trainer. Author of MobX, MobX-State-Tree, Immer and a plethora of smaller packages. On a continuous quest to make programming as natural as possible. React, JavaScript and TypeScript fan. Working at Facebook on dev tooling for mobile developers.
Daniel Roe
Nuxt, UK
Daniel leads the Nuxt core team - previously CTO of SaaS startup and founder of a creative agency focusing on clarity of vision and message. His open-source work has a focus in the Vue.js and Nuxt ecosystems and he's involved in consultancy with companies around the world, particularly around JAMstack, serverless and software architecture. He's based in Scotland where he lives with his family and cat.

Xuan Huang
ByteDance, USA
Xuan is a software architect on the Lynx family of technologies, where he can dream of making interfaces better for more users, more developers, and more machines. Before joining ByteDance, he worked on React Core ("React Forget"), React Native, Hermes and Reason during his time at Meta.

Natalia Tepluhina
GitLab, Netherlands
Natalia Tepluhina is a Vue.js core team member and a Staff Frontend Engineer at GitLab.
She is a conference speaker and author of articles on different topics related to Vue.js . Thanks to these activities Natalia has got a title of Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies.

Roy Derks
IBM, San Jose, California
Roy Derks is a lifelong software developer, author and public speaker from the Netherlands. Currently chasing his dreams in Silicon Valley, California. Roy's mission is to make the world a better place through technology by inspiring developers all over the world, more specifically AI and Web Development technologies. Before jumping into Developer Advocacy and joining IBM in Product Management, he founded and worked at multiple startups.

Jessica Sachs
Ionic, USA
Jess is a Software Engineer and leader in the frontend testing space. She led the development of Cypress Component Testing, is a Core Team Member of Faker, and is currently working at Ionic on the future of mobile development. She’s been programming professionally for more than 12 years and has been working professionally within the Open Source community for many of those. She’s a contributor to Vue and Vitest.

Bramus Van Damme
3RDS, Belgium
Bramus Van Damme is a web developer from Belgium. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since. His current focus is on JavaScript, React and React Native yet his love for CSS will never fade.

Vandana Verma
Snyk, India
Vandana is Security Solutions Architect at IBM India Software Labs. She is a member of the OWASP Global Board of Directors. She has experience ranging from Application Security to Infrastructure and now dealing with Product Security. She also works in various communities towards diversity initiatives InfosecGirls & WoSec. She has been Keynote speaker / Speaker / Trainer at various public events including Global OWASP AppSec events to BlackHat events to regional events like BSides events in India.
Vandana is a member of the Black Hat Asia Review Board as well as multiple other conferences including Grace Hopper India, OWASP AppSec USA to name a few. She is also one of the organiser of BSides Delhi.
She has been the recipient of multiple prestigious awards like Cyber Security Woman of the Year Award 2020 by Cyber Sec Awards, Application Security Influencer 2020 by Whitesource, Global cybersecurity influencer among IFSEC Global's "Top Influencers inSecurity and Fire" Category for 2019, Cybersecurity Women of the year award by Women Cyberjutsu Society in the Category “Secure Coder”. She has also been listed as one of the top women leaders in this field of technology and cybersecurity in India by Instasafe.