
Ken Wheeler
Staff Engineer @REDACTED, ReactJS Advocate, Speaker, Producer, Synthwave Artist, Google Dev Expert.
It’s Always Been Vibes
React Summit US 2025

Upcoming
It’s Always Been Vibes

Coding pre and post ai isn’t as different as you think. This talk presents principles and techniques that apply with or without AI to help you build faster and ship sooner.
If You Aren’t First You’re Last
React Summit US 2023Watch video: If You Aren’t First You’re Last

27 min
If You Aren’t First You’re Last

In this talk I will be covering various strategies and techniques that you can employ to make your apps fast and keep your apps fast. From tips and tricks around measuring performance, to architectural strategy and dirty rotten tricks.
Doing the Least Amount of Work Possible: An Intro to Runtime Performance
Doing the Least Amount of Work Possible: An Intro to Runtime Performance

In this talk we’ll explore a variety of techniques one can employ to ensure that their apps are running at peak performance. With a couple of small tweaks, you can make perf a built-in.