JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Backend Software Engineer for +10 years in industries such as telco, online betting, and financing, embraced the passion for leading and caring for people 3 years ago, being now at OLX Group as Engineering Manager.

Andorra-based full stack engineer with 14+ years of experience.Andorra-based full stack engineer with 14+ years of experience. The products I've helped build have reached millions of people around the globe, from ride-hailing platforms to celebrity marketplaces to content discovery apps. I architect for scale, business growth, and developer experience, because I believe great products come from the place where design quality and engineering rigor meet. I thrive in fast-moving teams, and I bring a track record of shipping products that users love and businesses rely on. I'm a TDD fanatic, and I'm having a blast using AI to sharpen my thinking process so we can build well-considered, business driven experiences.

Tinkerer • Thinker • Reader

Frontend Engineer at Evil Martians, a product development consultancy. My great inspiration is to shape thoughts into easy-to-use products and articles, and I love to speak publicly. I'm passionate about learning different front-end technologies, and always try to see both pros and cons of using them.

Trung Vo is a seasoned web developer and Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies. He is active in building the developer community in Singapore and frequently speaks at international conferences, sharing insights on frontend architecture, performance, and modern web practices. At Ascenda, he innovates towards loyalty programs for financial services worldwide, making rewards more accessible and driving a deeper understanding of customer behaviour.

Estela is a Senior Technical Architect in Web Performance at Shopify, where she helps merchants build faster and more performant experiences for their customers. Deeply involved in the global tech community, Estela is an international speaker, the co-founder of #MujeresEnSEO, and a co-organizer of PerformanceObserver.dev. She is dedicated to sharing technical knowledge and advocating for more diversity in the industry. When she isn’t debugging JavaScript issues, she is usually on a mission to find the city’s perfect latte macchiato or practicing her own "high-performance" sprinting while chasing her children through the park.

Shreshth Goyal is a Software Engineer at Curefit who builds AI systems that actually run in production. He spends his days orchestrating agents, wiring up LLM pipelines, and making sure retrieval does not hallucinate at scale. He writes about AI tooling on dev.to and moderates the community so the comments stay useful. He has a soft spot for edge devices, an unhealthy obsession with equity backtesting, and firmly believes most AI demos would not last a day in production.

Ben thinks a lot about people, words, and code. As a results-oriented technical leader at Miro, he works on building real-time, collaborative text experiences for the communication needs of teams around the world.

Experienced Customer Success professional with a history of working in developer tooling and startups. Extensive background as a support professional.

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.

Rodrigo is a focused developer who produces digital projects for agencies around the world. He has 20 years of experience using various methodologies and tech in most web and mobile projects. He has a strong knowledge base of the WordPress world and is very engaged with the community: building custom themes, plugins, and core customizations. He specializes in WordPress, developing for the front-end back-end and in managing digital projects.

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.

Daniil is a Senior Engineering Leader, currently leading engineering teams building the systems that train and deploy AI for the physical world. He previously operated distributed backend systems at hyperscale at Meta and led payments infrastructure at Teya, a UK fintech unicorn. An established speaker at industry events and conferences across Europe, he works at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, ML infrastructure, and engineering leadership.

A lifelong nerd, Sarah Padovani’s love for web development began in elementary school. From a humble beginning of adorably awful table-based websites for class projects, she is now a seasoned full-stack developer with 15 years of industry experience. Sarah has spent her career leading both enterprise and startup teams through complex technical hurdles, major architectural overhauls, and successful launches; always followed by a cold pint at the local taproom.

I am a software engineer with 8+ years of industry experience and currently pursuing a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at the University of Hull. My work sits at the intersection of frontend engineering, AI, computer vision, and high-performance browser applications. Over the past several months, I have been designing and building a browser-native AI video processing runtime that explores how modern web technologies including React, Web Workers, WebCodecs, OffscreenCanvas, and browser-compatible AI models can be combined to process long-form videos entirely on the client.

Dünya Kırkalı is an engineering leader and software engineer whose journey spans building mobile apps, web services, data pipelines, and visualizations across diverse industries and teams. This breadth of experience shaped him into a true generalist, an asset when leading engineers from different disciplines. It also set him on the path to the field he fell in love with: engineering management. Left to his own devices, Dünya enjoys putting on a Joe Pass record and reflecting on ways to create tools and techniques to help engineering managers discover their own global maxima.

Sam is the cofounder/CTO at Oso working on making security more accessible for developers. Sam previously got a PhD in Cryptography and was a contributor to TLS 1.3

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.

Founder and CEO, GraphCMS

Clint Cameron is a Product Marketing Manager at Sonar, a leader in software static analysis solutions. He joined Sonar in 2018 and enjoys passionately and transparently promoting the value of SonarSource tools to developers at all experience levels. Previous to Sonar, he has held roles in product and project management, consulting, sales operations and engineering.

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.