JavaScript experts, mentors, speakers

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.

Gleb Bahmutov is a JavaScript ninja, image processing expert, and software quality fanatic. During the day Gleb is making the engineers more productive at Mercari US in his position as the Senior Director of Engineering. At night he is fighting software bugs and blogs about it at glebbahmutov.com/blog. You can follow him and his work @bahmutov and find the slides from conference presentations at slides.com/bahmutov. Gleb is a GitHub Star, Algolia Ambassador, Microsoft MVP, and ex-Cypress Distinguished Engineer.

Monica Powell is a software engineer who is passionate about making contributing to open-source more approachable, creating technology to elevate people, and building community. You can find her developing educational technology as a Senior Software Engineer at Newsela, teaching web development, and contributing to open-source projects. GitHub recognized her as an inaugural GitHub Star based on her involvement in the tech community.

Luciano was born in 1987, the same year Super Mario Bros was released in Europe, which, by chance is his favorite game! He started coding at the age of 12, hacking away with his father's old i386 armed only with MS-DOS and the QBasic interpreter and since then he has been professionally a software developer for more than 14 years. He is currently a senior Architect at fourTheorem where he is helping companies to get the best of the cloud, AWS and serverless. He loves the full-stack web, Node.js & Serverless and co-authored "Node.js design patterns", maintains fstack.link and co-hosts awsbites.com.

Chance Strickland is a software engineer at Shopify building Remix. Previously he has worked on popular open source libraries like Reach UI and Radix UI, and he has taught hundreds of developers by leading workshops with React Training.

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.

Matt Hackett is a game developer who writes, draws, and podcasts. He wrote & illustrated How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself which has been an Amazon #1 bestseller in multiple categories.

I’m a developer advocate working with GraphCMS to create content that helps remove friction and educate around the GraphQL space. I create content written in the blog here and also in educational videos supporting the written content. I’m a second career dev, that reskilled from a VBA analyst developer role into web development. I’m a massive fan of the Jamstack I have a wealth of knowledge working with Gatsby and am spending a lot of time familiarising myself with Svelte and SvelteKit.

Maaret Pyhäjärvi is an exploratory tester extraordinaire with a day-job at Vaisala as Principal Test Engineer. She is a tester, (polyglot) programmer, speaker, author, and a community facilitator. She has been awarded the two prestigious global testing awards, Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person 2016 (MIATPP) and EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award (2020), and selected as Top-100 Most Influential in ICT in Finland 2019&2020.

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.

Jason is the public face of Web AI and TensorFlow.js at Google, helping web engineers around the world take their first steps with machine learning in JavaScript. Jason is the author of the 1st Web ML course on Google Developers and EdX, that has enabled over 40,000 students to start their journey with Machine Learning in the browser. He also combines his knowledge of the technical and creative worlds to develop innovative prototypes for Google's largest customers and internal teams with over 15 years experience working within web engineering and investigating emerging technologies. Jason also hosts the popular Made with TensorFlow.js show on the TensorFlow YouTube channel giving a voice to Web ML developers across industries globally. He holds an MEng in Computer Science, is a member of the British Computing Society, and is a certified information privacy technologist. Jason loves sharing knowledge online which has attracted a global following.

Nathen Harvey leads the DORA Advocacy team as a developer relations engineering manager at Google Cloud. Nathen has had the privilege of working with some of the best teams and open-source communities, helping them apply the principles and practices of DevOps and SRE. He has been a co-author of the Accelerate State of DevOps report for the past three years. Nathen also co-edited and contributed to 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know.

JavaScript, React, GraphQL engineer, and Open Source maintainer for urql, styled-components, and several experimental libraries. Software Engineer at Stellate building GraphQL infrastructure.

Mobile Developer Advocate at Apollo

Alba Silvente, aka Dawntraoz, is a Sr FullStack Engineer at Storyblok. She loves writing about FE development, Jamstack, and Web Performance on her blog, speaking at conferences, hosting a Spanish tech podcast, and working hard in the open-source community. She is also a GoogleDevExpert in Web Technologies, a Microsoft MVP and an ambassador at WTM & Nuxt.

Currently Head of AI at Cline. Previously Knowledge Graph team at Meta.

Jecelyn Yeen is a DevRel engineer at Google working on Chrome DevTools and Browser Automation. Her work focuses on understanding and activating the ecosystem around developer tooling. When she’s not coding (and avocado-ing), she’s jumping into mysterious sea waters in search of narwhals and mermaids.

Ryan Cavanaugh has been working on the TypeScript team at Microsoft since before its first public release in 2012. He's worn many hats in this time, including tester, developer, customer data, and now serves as the development manager for the compiler team.

Henri is a web performance and user experience advocate, supporter of performance literacy and a 5k distance runner. More importantly, he's busy building a mini empire focusing on developer media. Command-h is a small org in support of all his passions: people and development. When not combing through research docs, case studies and profiling, he can be found curating the next and best in person experience possible.

Senior Systems Engineer at Cloudflare. Building Rust for JavaScript Developers. When he isn't writing code, Sid enjoys scuba diving, reading and lazing with his dogs. He lives in London, UK and writes at sidhartha.dev.

TC39 team member and an editor of the specification from 2018-2021. Jordan has been heavily involved in the node community for as many years, and has gradually created (but mostly inherited or been gifted) a decent number of open source projects. His focus is JavaScript, standards, frontend web development, full stack (frontend + backend + db) architecture design, and overall object oriented code optimization.

Currently mostly into webapps and devtools. Build most stuff using the create-t3-app stack. Open Source Enthusiast

Creator of PrimeVue at PrimeTek, the team behind the popular open-source UI libraries. As a Vue enthusiast, he has been working on contributing a top-notch UI library for the Vue Ecosystem.

Co-founder & CTO of Vue Storefront - biggest Open Source eCommerce frontend project, co-organizer of Wrocław Vue.js meetups, web perf geek since 2017, proud cat owner.