JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

I’m Erin - raised in the Bay Area, schooled in Sonoma, Hawaii, and NYC. I’m a software engineer with a drive for JavaScript, React, explaining things simply and cats. I hold a MA in Communication from Hawaii Pacific University and previously worked at Major League Soccer on the mobile team. I’ve given talks internationally and across the US on the work I’ve been doing. I keep busy with new side projects, reading all of Reese Witherspoon’s bookclub books, re-watching Frontend Master courses, and tweeting about it all on Twitter.

I'm a nomad developer, currently living in Prague, Czech Republic. I love giving life to UI through animations. I'm a speaker, YouTuber, father of 2, React & React Native enthusiast, Open Source contributor and coffee geek. In my free time I help others to succeed.

my objective: { democratize developing }

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.

Isabela is a lead software engineer at Disney, helping build the future of Disney streaming services. Previously at Microsoft, Google, and various startups, she's focused her career in building delightful and accessible user-focused products. Isabela loves the intersection of code, design, and tooling. Her goal is to empower the community to create user-focused experiences by connecting the dots across these areas.

After writing his first line of JavaScript, it only took Houssein three short years to become an accomplished developer, author, speaker, and advocate. He is an engineer on the Chrome and Web team at Google working on improving the open-source framework ecosystem. Houssein has given talks on progressive enhancement and building for the mobile user at dozens of conferences and events worldwide.

Daniel is a language designer and PM on TypeScript.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Boshen Chen is the creator of the Oxc project. He was also working on the Rust-based bundler Rspack at the web infra team of ByteDance. He is currently learning Rust, performance engineering, as well as how to maintain an open-source project.

Ekene is a Software Developer and Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify. He’s a renowned speaker, writer and content creator with courses on Jamstack Explorers and YouTube. He loves learning and sharing knowledge on web development fundamentals, Jamstack, and Frontend related technologies. When he’s not working, he spends most of his time with friends and family.