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!

Catalin Miron
Creator, Czech Republic
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.

Erin Fox
ConvertKit, USA
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.

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.

Ben Vinegar
Modem, Canada
Ben Vinegar is a Toronto-based engineer and founder who has spent his career building developer tools and leading engineering teams. He helped grow Sentry into one of the most widely used developer platforms, and now leads Modem, a new venture exploring how AI can assist coding and product development.
Co-author of Third-Party JavaScript (O’Reilly) and long-time writer on developer experience, performance, and tooling.

Isabela McLenachen
Lead Software Engineer, Disney, USA
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.

Houssein Djirdeh
Google, USA
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.

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.

Rachel White
Datadog, USA
Rachel White is a technologist, artist, and pretend-cyborg currently working as a Technical Evangelist at Datadog. Previously at American Express, Microsoft, IBM, and Adobe, she has spoken internationally about Node.js, JavaScript, Creative Coding, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, NodeBots, and hardware, and served as co-chair of the Node.js Community Committee.
As a former artist in residence at Pioneer Works, she created a series visualizing modern cybernetic augmentation using today's hardware and special effects makeup. Outside of tech she's into glitch art, 80s horror, and indie games — her aesthetic is fog machines, laser lights, and broken VHS tapes.

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.

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.

Ekene Eze
Netlify, United Arab Emirates
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.

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.

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.

Josh Goldberg
Sentry, USA
Hi, I’m Josh! I’m an author, developer, and open source maintainer. My day job is working on data browsing software at Sentry. In my spare time I work on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem such as create-typescript-app, Flint, and typescript-eslint. I’m also the author of Learning TypeScript (O’Reilly), a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, a community organizer, and a conference speaker.

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.

Nat Alison
Freelancer, USA
Nat Alison is a freelance software engineer that specializes in interactive visualizations.

Erik Rasmussen
Spain
American expat living in Spain, author of Redux Form, Final Form, and currently building the best CRM in the world at Attio.

Ben Hong
Netlify, USA
Ben Hong is a Vue.js Core Team member, Staff DX Engineer at Netlify, Vue Mastery Instructor and Nuxt Ambassador.

Shem Magnezi
Wilco, Israel
Shem has more than a decade of experience in software engineering in various domains: client and server-side, real-time systems, big data, mobile, and web. Shem is passionate about building a culture of growth mindset and obsessed with making teams work better together. After several years as a senior IC in WeWork and Meta, Shem is now the CTO and Co-Founder of Wilco, a platform that empowers every developer, regardless of their background or skill level, to unlock their full potential.

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.

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.

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.

