JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

At the age of just 29, Katharina is Head of IT at hylane, a rental company for hydrogen trucks. She previously worked as a software developer and data engineer at WetterOnline for 9 years. In her work, she places a special focus on sustainable corporate IT and will share her experiences.

Luke is the co-founder of Gazelle, an all-in-one business automation solution for piano technicians. He founded and bootstrapped the company in 2015, helping piano technicians around the world grow their businesses. Gazelle has customers in over 30 countries and is translated into 11 languages.

Juliette MacPhail is a Product Manager at mabl, where she spends her time working on a low-code platform for simplifying test automation and helping teams ship high-quality software. She’s passionate about understanding core challenges in the test automation space and enabling the transition to quality engineering. As an active member of mabl’s DEI committee, she spends her spare time on initiatives related to accessibility, inclusivity, and mental health in the workplace.

Jenn Creighton is a senior software engineer at Netflix. She hosts Single Threaded Podcast. Organizer of Women of React 2020 conference & useReact.NYC meetup. Jenn lives in New York with her two cats and maintains a Home for Abandoned Succulents, Mismanaged Plants and Otherwise Ailing Flora. You can find her online - [@gurlcode](https://twitter.com/gurlcode).

Simon Zhong is a Sales Engineer at Sentry with almost 10 years of experience in enterprise software. He attended the University of Edinburgh and is a graduate of University of California, Davis in Computer Science. He is an American born Chinese (ABC) who is a native English speaker with conversational proficiency in Cantonese.

I am a Frontend Developer at Shopify and a certified Web Accessibility Specialist. My expertise lies in creating complex user interfaces that are both user-friendly and compliant. At Shopify, I develop No Code tools, enabling all users to effortlessly customize their Online Store.

Kseniia Korostelova is a senior engineering leader with over 10 years of experience building complex software systems and leading engineering teams through high-stakes product launches. She has managed engineering organisations of up to 50 engineers and specialises in scaling teams and systems in demanding technical environments. Her work focuses on how AI is reshaping engineering leadership. Through her writing and talks, she explores the concept of Organic Leadership: using AI to remove operational noise while preserving the human judgment, trust, and mentorship that teams depend on. Kseniia writes about leadership and technology in her Substack, "Oh Mind the Gap". Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, being near the sea, and occasionally growing tomatoes, which inspired the metaphor behind Organic Leadership.

Kritiketan (aka Kittu) is a Managing Consultant at Shine Solutions, and have been building consumer facing applications for a decade. He is passionate about knowledge sharing, developer experience and web development. He believes technology should simplify lives and make them better. He is getting closer to finding the world's best sandwich.

Anton is a Senior Software Engineer at Affirm, specializing in building robust and scalable JavaScript solutions. Outside of work, Anton actively contributes to the tech community by helping organize Vancouver JS, fostering developer learning and networking opportunities.

Neil Manvar is an engineer dedicated to helping developers ship quality code quickly. In his free time, you can find him cycling, snowboarding, or cuddling with his dog. He currently works as a Solutions Engineering Manager at Sentry, an Application Monitoring software company that helps software teams discover, triage, and optimize the performance of their code.

As a developer advocate and technical writer at Buddy, Tom takes his love for communication and passion for technology and uses them to break down complex ideas into bites that everyone can swallow. Having worked directly on open-source projects, he is equally passionate about the front and the back-end - be it React, Go, or Kubernetes. In his spare time, he's a guitar-wielding amateur musician who dreams of recording a platinum album.

Philip Fulcher is a senior engineer with at Nx. He works with Fortune 500 clients to modernize their development practices with a monorepo approach. Philip lives in Colorado with his wife (who is much smarter than him) and two great kids.

I’m a software developer working at Stack Builders with about 6 years of experience in full-stack development. I enjoy writing code, looking for new technologies, and finding solutions to problems. Music, sports, functional programming, and business are also a great part of my life.

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.

Software engineer with 10+ years of Java and Golang development experience. Working with large-scale test infrastructure during last 7 years. Maintaining a big Selenium cluster with 5000+ parallel browsers.

I encourage others to see different perspectives and constructively break the rules. Observe - Optimize - Learn - Repeat is my work and life motto. Next to it, I found my joy in building and optimizing end-to-end Machine Learning Systems. Principal Data Solutions Engineer @ LINKIT Organizer (volunteer) @ PyLadies Amsterdam WaiACCELERATE Tech Mentor (volunteer) @ Women in AI

I am a software engineer who is passionate about building high-quality systems, tools, and applications. I am continually striving for the feeling of having built something I’m proud of, something I know that I didn’t take shortcuts on, and something worth sharing. I also have a deep appreciation for modern design aesthetics and robust interaction design. The melding of form and function is my holy grail.

Evangelia Mitsopoulou is a seasoned tech professional with nearly two decades of experience in software engineering, with a specialization in frontend development for the past 12+ years. She has a strong full-stack engineering foundation and a background in semantic web and linked data engineering, which informs her approach to building intelligent, structured systems. As the founder of her own academy, Evangelia blends her expertise in frontend software engineering with instructional design and cognitive load theory to create learning experiences that help engineers master complex concepts efficiently and retain knowledge effectively. Her career includes roles at prominent European organizations such as Elastic, ETH Zurich, Google, EF, and several fintech startups. Alongside running her academy, she advises startups as a fractional expert, helping them navigate technical challenges and scale successfully.

Nataliya Ioffe is a front-end software developer with a passion for guiding organizations through digital transformation and modernization processes. Her recent work has seen her partner with organizations as they upgrade their tech stacks with React and adopt Headless architectures with powerful content editing capabilities.

Adam leads frontend development at Chatham Financial, where his efforts to centralize front-end resources and training have led to transformative improvements in product consistency and quality, accessibility of user experiences, and developer efficiency. In addition to the frontend, Adam especially enjoys working on projects involving performance, accessibility, and coding theory. Outside work, he spends his time learning human languages, writing open-source projects, and haunting his favorite sushi joint.

Yama is a data scientist at MyPart, an Israeli startup in the music industry, developing algorithms and researching lyrical and musical song features. In her spare time, she gives tech talks at conferences and meetups (Geektime Code, PyData Tel Aviv, IsraelClouds); and mentors a group of developers through their first steps in the data science world as a part of Baot - Israel’s largest community of senior female engineers and computer scientists. Yama has a B.Sc in mathematics and physics from Tel Aviv University where she also expresses her passion for music by playing the saxophone in the TAU Wind Band.

By day, Maarten supports front-end teams at Essent with their Accessibility and Design System challenges. By night, he tinkers with the Web Platform.

I currently work at ByteDance as an Engineering Lead for E-Commerce payments system software driving the business of TikTokShop product in the US. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Masters degree and Vellore Institute of Technology with a Bachelor's degree. I’m a seasoned Silicon Valley professional in the Payments domain with proven engineering expertise for 10+ years. I pioneered the Software Engineering marvel resulting in the increase of user count of products by about 800 times in less than 6 months, generating kick-start revenue of $120k per week during 0 to 1 product growth, tripling the revenue from $5 billion to $14 billion in less than 5 years by getting over the plateau growth, for some of the prominent products in the world like iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, AWS Amplify, Amazon Alexa mobile app, TikTok shop and Oracle backend server supercluster. The by-products of these business results are multifold improvement in Engineering productivity and grooming myriad software professionals for world class companies like Apple, Amazon, Oracle, SanDisk.

Akshay Ranganath is a Solution Architect at Cloudinary responsible for bringing customers on-board, helping them create work-flow for media management and media delivery. While not working, you'll find him holding camera and indulging in some photography.