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!
Zack Jackson
Zack Jackson
ByteDance, USA
Member of the infra team behind Rspack, Rsbuild, Midscene, ModernJS. Maintainer of webpack and creator of Module Federation. Primarily works in frontend infra, micro frontends, compilers.
 Stoyan Stefanov
Stoyan Stefanov
Etsy, USA
Stoyan has recently joined Etsy as a web performance consultant (formerly at Facebook, WebPageTest and Yahoo!). He has a storied history as an accomplished author, contributor, and custodian of the well-known and respected Planet Performance calendar. He habitually speaks about web development topics at conferences and on his blog at phpied.com (http://phpied.com/). Stoyan is also the creator of the smush.it (http://smush.it/) image optimization tool, YUI contributor and was the architect of Yahoo's performance optimization tool YSlow 2.0.
Jen Looper
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
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.
Juri Strumpflohner
Juri Strumpflohner
Nx, Italy
Coming from the middle of the alps in northern Italy, Juri has been working as a software architect at startups, government agencies and Fortune 500 companies. His happy place? Coding, developer tooling, creating tech videos and riding his OneWheel.
Richard Davey
Richard Davey
UK
Full time HTML5 Game Developer and creator of Phaser, Atari otaku, Retro Gaming Geek, child of the 80s, demoscener, anime and pixel art fan.
Simon Grimm
Simon Grimm
Galaxies.dev, Germany
Content Creator focused on cross platform apps and frameworks. Helping web developers for 8+ years to break into mobile apps and ship awesome apps through YouTube videos, tutorials, courses, books and workshops.
Brent Vatne
Brent Vatne
Expo, Canada
Front-end web/mobile developer working on Expo and React Native.
Rahat Chowdhury
Rahat Chowdhury
Biconomy, USA
Rahat is a hip hop artist turned web developer, indie hacker, and web3 enthusiast. Rahat's passions include advocating for mental health in tech, music, gaming, and mentoring new developers especially in the web3 space.
Daniel Roe
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.
Michel Weststrate
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.
Rudrank Riyam
Rudrank Riyam
India
Developer, primarily into the Apple Platforms world and playing around with AI driven coding. I have the goal of army of AI co-workers so I can finish my games backlog
Nick DeJesus
Nick DeJesus
Netlify, USA
Nick DeJesus is an open source maintainer focused on removing friction from the e-commerce space.
Xuan Huang
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
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.
 Joshua Lochner
Joshua Lochner
Hugging Face, South Africa
Creator of Transformers.js. Bringing the power of machine learning to the web.
Bolaji Ayodeji
Bolaji Ayodeji
Commerce Layer, Nigeria
Bolaji is a Software Engineer, Content Creator, and Community Engineer who currently works as a Developer Advocate at Commerce Layer. He's passionate about sharing knowledge, documentation, web engineering, Jamstack, headless commerce, communities, and FOSS.
Mike Grabowski
Mike Grabowski
Callstack, Poland
CTO and Founder at Callstack. Developer Experience is my passion. In the past, I worked on “react-native link”, “auto-linking” and the CLI. When not coding, I am probably on a race track!
Jonny Burger
Jonny Burger
Remotion, Switzerland
Indie Hacker from Zurich. I make my own apps to live the dream! Big into motion graphics.
Scott Moss
Scott Moss
Netflix, USA
Senior Engineer at Netflix. Product Engineer with a focus on anything JavaScript. Scott contributes to open source frequently and is dedicated to helping teams ship their products and projects faster.
Kadi Kraman
Kadi Kraman
Expo, UK
Kadi is a Software Developer at Expo, working on tools and experiences to help developers get the best out of building React Native apps with Expo. She is also an enthusiastic teacher, and has created React Native courses for Frontend Masters and Egghead.
Roy Derks
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.
Brandon Bayer
Brandon Bayer
Blitz.js Creator, USA
Brandon Bayer is the creator of Blitz.js. He is currently a full-time maintainer of Blitz and supports himself with part-time consulting on the side. Outside of Blitz, his other passion is flying real airplanes and RC helicopters.
Bramus Van Damme
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.