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As a Principal Developer Advocate at MongoDB, Karen Huaulmé (pronounced “You-Old-Maid” - but with no d’s) develops and presents applications to help developers unleash their creativity across all aspects of data and technology. Leveraging her past experience as a Solutions Architect for some of MongoDB’s most demanding customers, Karen loves to trigger that “aha” moment in the minds of developers - when they recognize a better path to simplify, enhance, and accelerate their projects in ways they never thought possible. Prior to MongoDB, Karen spent most of her career working with video game developers as a Solutions Architect and Integration Engineer at Nvidia, Amazon and Twitch. In her free time, Karen embarrasses her 2 kids, spoils her dog, and feeds her addiction to adventure travel - not necessarily in that order.

Solutions engineer with a lot of operation experience in Couchbase.

Jorrik’s first lines of code were in the days jQuery ruled. That didn’t scare him. Now he has 6+ years of frontend experience using React and Vue during his day job. In the evening and night hours, a lot of fun projects and other libraries passed his ‘git clone’. When not coding he gets his fair share of laughs going to comedy shows.

Software Engineer with over a decade of industry experience in developing reliable and scalable software systems. Specialities & Interests: Distributed Systems, Server Engineering, API Design, System Architecture, Data Modeling, Caching Solutions, Databases, Algorithms, Server Infrastructure and Operations.

After working as a science teacher for a few years, Sylvana transitioned into software engineering as a means to provide a quality education to all learners. She began her career as an apprentice at Codecademy and is now a software engineer at the company. During her time at Codecademy, she has gained experience with React, Next.js, and Typescript and has led initiatives like the tech reading club and dev workshops.

Samuel Pinto is a Frontend Engineer since 2013, he has been working with large using facing applications in companies like Microsoft, Bumble, and OLX. He worked from 5 different countries and loves to be involved and learn new cultures.

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.

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

Gabriel is a Node.js core collaborator, TSC member emeritus, and a member of the Node API working group with a passion for improving performance. Formerly of Nokia, Intel, and SpaceX, currently at Auction.com.

Senna is a Solutions Engineer at GitHub supporting our customers the EMEA MidMarket segment. She has a background in web application, iOS development, and accessibility. Originally working out of the HQ in San Francisco, she’s been working with GitHub customers for three years, passionate about empowering developers and helping organizations as they go through cultural and digital transformations.

Jen Person is a developer advocate for Squid Cloud, an enterprise-grade backend-as-a-service that connects to and secures any API or data source. With nearly a decade of experience in developer products, Jen has extensive experience connecting with developers through talks, blogs, events, social media, and videos. She is passionate about creating the best development experiences so devs can focus on creating the best applications.

dr. Robin Marx is a Web Performance Expert at Akamai Technologies. He focuses on the performance and workings of modern Web protocols like HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and QUIC and has been a contributor in the IETF QUIC working group for multiple years. Robin often talks about web performance at international conferences, making the complex situations more insightful to the wider public. On the weekends, he likes to hit other people with longswords.

James is Co-Founder and CEO of ElectricSQL. Prior to founding Electric, he co-founded the Post Urban venture builder and was co-founder and CTO of synthetic data company Hazy.

A veteran web developer and manager, with over 15 years of experience, loves accessibility, hates the color magenta, and would definitely love to have dinner with the founders of React. Spent the last several years working at startups, creating shiny new web applications. These days Eitan leads the Frontend development at Evinced, on a mission to help everyone create more accessible web applications.

Engineering Manager at Funding Circle, leading multiple teams. Responsible for mobile app, rewards & pricing infrastructure. 15 years in the industry. Currently focused on improving engineering performance through AI adoption.

Carlos Robles is a Product Manager on the AI team at Supabase, where he owns the interfaces developers and agents actually touch: the client SDKs, the CLI, the dashboard, the Management API, and the MCP endpoint. He has spent 16 years building software across full-stack, cloud, and data engineering roles, including leading developer experience for SQL at Microsoft, time at AWS, and a run as a Microsoft MVP. He is an international speaker, author, and mentor who codes, plays video games, and talks about geek culture more than his family probably prefers.

I'm a seasoned software developer with a passion for creating engaging developer experiences. As a Developer Experience Engineer at Chromatic, I'm dedicated to improving integrations in the Storybook ecosystem, making it easier for developers to build high-quality UIs with confidence. In addition to my technical expertise, I'm an advocate for education and empowering developers to reach their full potential. When I'm not coding, you can find me jamming on my bass or spending quality time with my Great Danes, Zola and Noodles.

Gergana is a Software Development Manager at Prime Video. She has worked across multiple business domains, partnering closely with business and product stakeholders to set long-term strategy and deliver against that vision. Her work focuses on technical leadership and evolving engineering culture and practices. She has led her team through the adoption of AI-driven development, helping them continuously rethink how software gets built.

James is the CTO of Outcome, building a decision intelligence platform for non-profits and governments to manage daily operations and land use in a rapidly changing world. Previously a Staff Engineer on Google's Firebase team, James maintained AngularFire and the Firebase JS SDK; today he's a member of the Next.js Ecosystem Working Group and author of the Next.js Kubernetes Adapter.

Kiriti Badam is co-founder and CTO at LevelUp Labs, where he helps companies turn AI into business results through engineering, strategy, and education. He has 12+ years of experience building production systems, from distributed infrastructure to machine learning platforms and AI products. Previously, he worked on the core Codex team at OpenAI across product development, agent behavior and reliability, and production infrastructure. Examples include the Codex Web launch, Slack integration, Code Review, and GPU capacity and fleet management. He co-created ChatGPT Sites and co-led its development and launch. Before OpenAI, he was a founding ML infrastructure engineer at Kumo.AI, where he helped build a multi-tenant platform training hundreds of models each day. Earlier, he built large-scale storage and data-processing infrastructure at Google, Databricks, and Samsung. He also writes and teaches practical courses on production AI systems, agent design, evaluation, and harness engineering.

Julia is a Software Developer at ec0lint, a tool for frontend developers which mitigates the carbon footprint of websites. Besides, she works as a Software Engineer at Akamai. She is also a laureate of the IT for SHE program. In her free time, Julia practices yoga and makes handcrafted candles.

Javier Alcaide is a mathematician and software developer focused on data science and machine learning. His professional career is based on the use of advanced analytics and big data techniques within the financial sector. His current role is the design and construction of AI models and the analysis of data using ETL processing with Big Data technologies.

Self-learner and passionated about web development since the age of 15, I have a strong background in frontend development and especially with Vue.js and the Jamstack.