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!
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.
 Yagiz Nizipli
Yagiz Nizipli
Sentry, USA
Yagiz is a Senior Software Engineer at Sentry. He's a Node.js Technical Steering Committee member and the founder of Node.js performance team.
Rizel Scarlett
Rizel Scarlett
GitHub, USA
Rizel is a Developer Advocate at GitHub. She moonlights as an Advisor at G{Code} House, an organization aimed at teaching women of color and non-binary people of color to code. Rizel believes in leveraging vulnerability, honesty, and kindness as means to educate early-career developers. Her favorite past times are watching anime, crying at the gym, and annoying her husband.
Yoni Goldberg
Yoni Goldberg
Independent Testing Consultant, Israel
Yoni Goldberg is an independent consultant who works with 500 fortune corporates and garage startups on polishing their JS & Node.js applications. He's the author of Node's largest best practices collection (link below). More than any other topic he is fascinated by and aims to master the art of testing. At his spare time, he likes to write in his blog and debug production application using console.log.
Niall Maher
Niall Maher
Codú, Ireland
Niall runs Ireland’s largest coding community called Codú. A self taught developer that has previously been a Lead Developer, Software Architect, Head of Product, and CTO.
Illya Klymov
Illya Klymov
GitLab, Ukraine
Illya is Senior Frontend Engineer in GitLab and Ph.D. in computer science. His passion is building reliable software and even more - discovering how to bring reliability to life in baby steps for legacy projects. He has over 15 years of experience in JavaScript, owned own software development company for 7 years and quit tha because realized that engineering is his real passion. In GitLab he is not only experimenting with bringing hype technologies to legacy codebase but also works hard on increasing the quality of frontend testing suite. Believed that GitLab CI/CD pipeline language is the best tradeoff between power and reliability long before joining GitLab and now is absolutely sure of that. Does not trust his own code and automates every single check possible. An active contributor of @vue/test-utils.
Ebenezer Don
Ebenezer Don
Codegiant, Nigeria
Ebenezer Don is a seasoned software engineer, author, and developer advocate at Codegiant. He has over a decade of experience in building web and mobile applications, cloud and machine learning solutions for various domains and industries.
Liran Tal
Liran Tal
Snyk, Israel
Liran Tal is a software developer, and a GitHub Star, world-recognized for his activism in open source communities and advancing web and Node.js security. He engages in security research through his work in the OpenJS Foundation and the Node.js ecosystem security working group, and further promotes open source supply chain security as an OWASP project lead. Liran is also a published author of Essential Node.js Security and O'Reilly's Serverless Security. At Snyk, he is leading the developer advocacy team and on a mission to empower developers with better dev-first security.
Joe Savona
Joe Savona
Meta, USA
Joe was planning to major in math and philosophy but got into computer science after writing physics simulations in Matlab. Prior to React, he worked on Relay, RSocket.js, and the Skip programming language. While he’s not building some sort of reactive system he enjoys running, studying Japanese, and spending time with his family.
Jonathan Kuperman
Jonathan Kuperman
Cloudflare
I am a developer advocate currently working at Cloudflare in their emerging technologies org. I'm passionate about Open Source Software and the open web. I spend my free time learning, reading, blogging and teaching.
Ramon Santamaria
Ramon Santamaria
Raylib technologies, Spain
Passionate gamedev engineer and entrepreneur. Developer of tools and technology for games development. Creator of the popular gamedev framework raylib (www.raylib.com), a Google awarded C library to enjoy videogames programming
Daniel Rosenwasser
Daniel Rosenwasser
Microsoft, USA
Daniel is a language designer and PM on TypeScript.
Nat Alison
Nat Alison
Freelancer, USA
Nat Alison is a freelance software engineer that specializes in interactive visualizations.
Dev Agrawal
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.
Nacho Anaya
Nacho Anaya
Checkly, Argentina
I am Lead Open Source Engineer at @ChecklyHQ, Tech Trainer, and Speaker. I have been working, teaching and spreading JavaScript technologies for more than 10 years. Right now, I am mostly working with Vue.js and Node.js but I like to contribute to any kind of dev community or OSS project. When I am not coding or traveling, you can find me playing hockey in Buenos Aires.
Ben Hong
Ben Hong
Netlify, USA
Ben Hong is a Vue.js Core Team member, Staff DX Engineer at Netlify, Vue Mastery Instructor and Nuxt Ambassador.
Saskia Freeke
Saskia Freeke
Netherlands
Saskia Freeke creates generative, computational art on a daily basis. Both her works and her practice stand out by their distinctive playful characteristic. By creating her own rules and playfully adapting these as she goes, Saskia applies a notable evolving narrative to her work. The act of live coding provides an awesome complementary context to her discourse - for it is the realtime exercise amongst and in conjunction with creative peers that make her contemporary artistic principles come into full play.
Frank Force
Frank Force
Game Designer, Software Engineer, USA
Frank has worked in the games industry for over two decades and has also released many games and tools on the side. To his count there are over 50 releases, with source code available for most. Here’s a full list of everything he has released! Frank currently works as an independent developer in Austin Texas. In the past he has worked at Rooster Teeth Games, Certain Affinity, LightBox, Volition, Midway Games, and Hypnotix.
Ryan Chenkie
Ryan Chenkie
CourseLift, Canada
Ryan is a full stack developer and loves all things React, Node, and GraphQL. He's also a big fan of web security, a topic he has written about extensively and taught thousands of developers on. Ryan is also the founder of CourseLift, a course hosting platform that helps authors earn more from their online courses. He blogs at ryanchenkie.com.
Lucas Santos
Lucas Santos
OpenVolt, Sweden
Lucas is a Brazilian programmer, content creator, and professional trainer who works as Senior Software Engineer at Klarna. He's been working working with Web applications for over a decade, especially with JavaScript and TypeScript. He's also a Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, and Docker Captain who has been talking about technology both nationally and internationally for years. Member & Contributor to Node.js, TC39 Outreach, KEDA Project, and the TypeScript language.
Eva Ferreira
Eva Ferreira
Mabl, Argentina
Eva is a Front-End developer who loves cats and makes many Harry Potter jokes. From Buenos Aires, Argentina Eva enjoys making websites and teaching HTML, CSS, SVG and JavaScript. Eva loves the challenge of developing fast, accessible and responsive interfaces, layouts and animations. CSSConf Argentina organizer.
Eli Schutze
Eli Schutze
Sling Money, UK
Software engineer based in London. Originally from Nicaragua, Eli is also a speaker and community organiser, so when she’s not working you can find her at tech events, teaching people to code or tweeting.
Jonny Burger
Jonny Burger
Remotion, Switzerland
Indie Hacker from Zurich. I make my own apps to live the dream! Big into motion graphics.
Michael Hladky
Michael Hladky
Push-Based, Austria
Michael Hladky is a Google Developer Expert (GDE), Microsoft MVP, trainer, and consultant with a focus on Angular and RxJS. For years he has been helping companies and developers to set up scalable architectures and performant processes enabling teams to keep up with state-of-the-art development. A vibrant member of the tech community, he organizes multiple community events and workshops each year to give back.