JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

Bramus Van Damme is a web developer from Belgium. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since. His current focus is on JavaScript, React and React Native yet his love for CSS will never fade.

Alex is a full-stack software engineer, founder with a successful exit, and Tech Education Lead at BitterBrains.

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.

Jani Eväkallio is a full-stack software engineer living the startup life in London.

Luca Mezzalira is principal solutions architect, an international speaker, and an author. Over the past 20 years, he’s mastered software architectures from frontend to the cloud, providing the right solution for the context of the job at hand. OReillyMedia Author

Jessica is a Software Engineer with over 14 years of experience and has been working within the Open Source community for many of those. She led the development of Cypress Component Testing, is a Core Team Member of Faker, and is currently working at HeroDevs on AI Enablement. She’s a contributor to Vue and Vitest.

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.

Mike is a developer, Angular Developer Expert for Google, and Developer Advocate at Prisma. Big fan of the web, Mike has been helping people for well over a decade with the simple goal: build cool things!

Vandana is Security Solutions Architect at IBM India Software Labs. She is a member of the OWASP Global Board of Directors. She has experience ranging from Application Security to Infrastructure and now dealing with Product Security. She also works in various communities towards diversity initiatives InfosecGirls & WoSec. She has been Keynote speaker / Speaker / Trainer at various public events including Global OWASP AppSec events to BlackHat events to regional events like BSides events in India. Vandana is a member of the Black Hat Asia Review Board as well as multiple other conferences including Grace Hopper India, OWASP AppSec USA to name a few. She is also one of the organiser of BSides Delhi. She has been the recipient of multiple prestigious awards like Cyber Security Woman of the Year Award 2020 by Cyber Sec Awards, Application Security Influencer 2020 by Whitesource, Global cybersecurity influencer among IFSEC Global's "Top Influencers inSecurity and Fire" Category for 2019, Cybersecurity Women of the year award by Women Cyberjutsu Society in the Category “Secure Coder”. She has also been listed as one of the top women leaders in this field of technology and cybersecurity in India by Instasafe.

Boshen Chen is the creator of the Oxc project. He works at VoidZero, where he is helping improve the JavaScript ecosystem with high-performance tooling written in Rust.

GraphQL co-creator. Founder of Elementl. Working on Dagster. Ex-Facebook Engineer.

I’m a frontend engineer and open-source maintainer, shaping the ESLint and webpack ecosystems. When I’m not fixing bugs, I’m probably binge-watching anime! 🚀

Matt Biilmann has been building developer tools, content management systems and web infrastructure for more than a decade. He is co-founder and CEO of Netlify, the modern platform for high performance websites and apps.

CJ is a Software Developer, Educator and Maker. He makes videos for Syntax.fm and streams himself teaching and coding on the Twitch and YouTube channel Coding Garden.

Linda Ikechukwu is a developer advocate at Smallstep Labs, where her mission is to demystify Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and everything digital certificate usage for developers and DevOps engineers. Her 4 years as a software engineer (cloud + frontend) built the foundation for her current passion: creating educational materials that help developers learn new technologies. When she’s not creating tech content, you can find her on the tennis court or learning to play the guitar.

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.

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.

Director of Open Source Development at Ionic: Capacitor.js Ionic Framework Stencil.js

Yoni Goldberg is an independent consultant who works with 500 Fortune corporates and garage startups on polishing their applications. He's the author of a handful of best practices collections on GitHub, with an overall 130,000 stars. More than any other topic he is fascinated by and aims to master the art of testing. In his spare time, he likes to write in his blog and debug production applications using console.log.

Hi! My name is Artem. I'm a self-taught software engineer. I've built this thing called Mock Service Worker, which has changed the lives of developers all around the world. I'm extremely thankful for that. I love testing, and I love writing and teaching about it even more. And coffee, yes, I like that one as well.

Chris is a full-stack engineer, a co-founder at Lost Pixel, an occasional YouTuber, a freelancer, and an open-source contributor. He loves building tools for developers and making their lives easier. Apart from TypeScript, AI, and making music, he has too many other interests he doesn't have time for.

Danny Richman is a seasoned tech professional with 40+ years of experience helping organizations like BBC, Vodafone, and Salesforce streamline operations and improve online visibility. Danny is now now focused on practical AI applications in business, education, and non-profit sectors. Danny also volunteers for the Prince's Trust, supporting disadvantaged youth to start their own business.

Stefan works in Checkly's Developer Relations and quickly fell in love with web performance, new technologies, and accessibility. He is also a curator of the online resource Tiny Helpers, Tiny Teachers, contributes to a variety of open source projects, and enjoys sharing nerdy discoveries.

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.