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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kenton Varda
Cloudflare, USA
Lead engineer of the Cloudflare Workers developer platform, creator of Cap'n Proto and Cap'n Web.

Nick DeJesus
Netlify, USA
Nick DeJesus is an open source maintainer focused on removing friction from the e-commerce space.
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.

Mikkel Malmberg
Tether
Mikkel is a programmer and app builder who stumbled into p2p and was excited to find that everything was suddenly possible

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.

Jonny Burger
Remotion, Switzerland
Indie Hacker from Zurich. I make my own apps to live the dream! Big into motion graphics.

Mike Grabowski
Callstack, Poland
CTO at Callstack. Passionate about cross-platform technologies. When not working, you can find him on a race track.

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.

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.

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.

Dev Agrawal
Clerk, USA
Dev Agrawal has been building full-stack Javascript applications for 7 years and is now a Developer Advocate at Clerk, the user management solution for React. Dev is also a content creator and makes youtube videos on software development and architecture, and has a special interest in devtools that unlock productivity and scalability.

Yoko Li
a16z, USA
Yoko is a tech cartoonist, engineer, product manager and partner at a16z. She spent years as an engineer writing developer tools at AppDynamics and Transposit using React and Anguar, and was a product lead for Terraform Cloud at Hashicorp. Currently, Yoko is a partner at a16z by day, investing in the Javascript ecosystem, and a cartoonist by night, when she draws cartoons to make fun of tech.

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.

Sanket Sahu
GeekyAnts, India
I found my love for computers at the age of 8 and haven’t looked back ever since. I built a bunch of products (builderX) and OSS (NativeBase) and lead a consulting company of 500+ folks. I am very fortunate to combine my two passions, design and code, into what I do for a living. I am Sanket, founder at GeekyAnts and still a developer at heart. Currently, I spend my days in my self designed caravan, learning what it’s like to live as a digital nomad and I can’t wait to share my stories with you!

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
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.


