February 17 - 18, 2022

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Node Congress 2022
The biggest event on JavaScript backends
Explore the new frontier of battle-tested backends. A two-day conference on all things Node.js, gathering Back-end and Full-stack engineers across the globe in the cloud is here to help you staying up-to-date on the latest Node.js tech.

Feross Aboukhadijeh
Socket, USA
Talk: It's a Jungle Out There: What's Really Going on Inside Your Node_Modules Folder
Feross is the founder and CEO of Socket, where he's working on a new approach to supply chain security by auditing every package on npm to detect suspicious changes and block supply chain attacks without slowing the development process. Feross is the author and maintainer of WebTorrent, StandardJS, and 100s of other open source projects. His software is downloaded 500+ million times per month. He was a lecturer at Stanford where he created the course CS 253 Web Security.

Colin Ihrig
Node.js Technical Steering Committee, USA
Talk: Out of the Box Node.js Diagnostics
Member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee & a hapi core team member.
Colin Ihrig is a software engineer working primarily with Node.js. He is the author of Pro Node.js for Developers, and co-author of Full Stack JavaScript Development with MEAN.

Kent C. Dodds
Epic React, USA
Talk: Server-side Auth with Remix, Prisma, and the Web Platform
Kent C. Dodds is a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and he's actively involved in the open source community as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. He is the creator of EpicReact.Dev and TestingJavaScript.com. He's an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. He's also a Google Developer Expert. Kent is happily married and the father of four kids. He likes his family, code, JavaScript, and Remix.

Michele Riva
NearForm, Italy
Talk: Understanding JavaScript Compilation
I'm a passionate and experienced software engineer, Google GDE, and Microsoft MVP working full-time on open-source software. I currently work as a Staff Engineer at NearForm while traveling the world to speak at international conferences. I am also developing Lyra, the next-generation full-text search engine written entirely in TypeScript.
I am always up for speaking about software, philosophy, photography... or literally whatever comes to your mind!

Liz Parody
Fusebit, Colombia
Talk: Mastering Error Handling Node.js
Liz is a community-taught Software Engineer focused on JavaScript, and Head of Developer Relations at NodeSource. She organizes different community events such as JSConf Colombia, Pioneras Developers, Startup Weekend and has been a speaker at EmpireJS, MedellinJS, PionerasDev, Node+JS Interactive, NodeConf and others.
She loves sharing knowledge, promoting JavaScript and Node.js ecosystem and participating in key tech events and conferences to enhance her knowledge and network.

Alex Ruheni
Prisma, Germany
Talk: Database Access on the Edge with Cloudflare Workers & Prisma
Alex is a Developer Advocate at Prisma, where he's working to make databases easy and fun. He loves learning and teaching other developers. Every once in a while, he procrastinates by preaching to other developers to adopt Ts. He's also a mediocre photographer at best – but the camera covers that up for him.

Shivay Lamba
Meilisearch, India
Talk: High Performance Node.js Powered by Rust and WebAssembly
Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development.
He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and has also been a MLH Fellow. He is actively involved in community work as well. He is a TensorflowJS SIG member, Mentor in OpenMined and CNCF Service Mesh Community, SODA Foundation and has given talks at various conferences like Github Satellite, Voice Global, Fossasia Tech Summit, TensorflowJS Show & Tell.

Aleksandra Sikora
Blitz.js, Poland
Talk: A Glimpse Into the Future of Fullstack Development with Blitz.js
Aleksandra is a software engineer based in Wrocław, Poland. She's worked as a full-stack developer with many different languages such as Elixir, Golang, Python, and TypeScript. She was previously a tech lead for the Hasura Console, and now she's a lead maintainer of Blitz.js.

Thomas Hunter II
Lob.com, USA
Talk: A Comparison of Web Workers
Thomas has contributed to dozens of enterprise Node.js services and has worked for a company dedicated to securing Node.js. He has spoken at several conferences on Node.js and JavaScript, is an O'Reilly published author (Distributed Systems with Node.js ), and is an organizer of NodeSchool SF.

Antoine du Hamel
Transloadit, France
Talk: The Road to JSON Import Support in Node.js
Antoine is a Software Engineer from France, working for Transloadit. His love for everything open source brought him to GitHub at an early age, and he has been a regular visitor and contributor ever since. He serves as a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, the esteemed governing body that oversees the popular runtime environment. When Antoine is not channeling his creative energy into technical projects, he enjoys playing the piano.

Chris Stavitsky
Sentry, USA
Talk: Monitoring Errors and Slowdowns with a JS Frontend and Node Backend
Chris has a background as a web developer. He previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at a company that used Sentry for error monitoring. Chris liked the product so much that he decided to come work for Sentry and make finding and fixing bugs easier for other developers.
Shedrack Akintayo
Software Developer, Developer Advocate, Technical Writer, Nigeria
Talk: The Evolution of Deploying Node on Servers and Platforms
Shedrack is a Developer Advocate and Technical Writer from Lagos, Nigeria. He loves community building, open source, and a has knack for improving developer experience of developer focused products.

Jonathan Kuperman
Cloudflare, null
Talk: Static first websites with Cloudflare Workers
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.

Scott Gerlach
StackHawk, USA
Talk: Automated Application Security Testing with StackHawk
Scott Gerlach is Co-founder and Chief Security Officer at StackHawk, a Denver-based startup focused on empowering engineers to easily identify and remediate security bugs. Scott brings over two decades of security and engineering experience to his current role, having served as CSO, CISO, and in other executive leadership functions at companies like SendGrid, Twilio, and GoDaddy. When he's not at work, you'll find Scott spending time with family, brewing beer, and playing guitar.

Tally Barak
Yoobic, Israel
Talk: The Secret Life of Package Managers
Tally has over 30 years of software development, product management, and consulting experience. Today Tally works for Yoobic as an architect responsible for all the Frontend tooling, testing, and DevOps processes.
Tally loves Javascript and its ecosystem and is happily sharing this knowledge with other developers. Playwright Ambassador.
Jessica Cregg
LaunchDarkly, UK
Talk: Orders & Magnitude
Jessica is a Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, where she speaks about change and writes about the human implications of engineering decisions. She writes for a selection of tech publications and works as a co-organiser of DevOpsDays London and the regular meet-up group DevSecOps London Gathering. She also works with Coding Black Females to improve equal and equitable representation within the technology industry.

Matteo Collina
Platformatic, Italy
Talk: Fastify Workshop
Matteo is the Co-Founder and CTO of Platformatic.dev with the goal to remove all friction from backend development. He is also a prolific Open Source author in the JavaScript ecosystem and modules he maintain are downloaded more than 12 billion times a year.
Previously he was Chief Software Architect at NearForm, the best professional services company in the JavaScript ecosystem. In 2014, he defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Application Platforms for the Internet of Things".
Matteo is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee focusing on streams, diagnostics and http. He is also the author of the fast logger Pino and of the Fastify web framework.
Matteo is an renowed international speaker after more than 60 conferences, including OpenJS World, Node.js Interactive, NodeConf.eu, NodeSummit, JSConf.Asia, WebRebels, and JsDay just to name a few. He is also co-author of the book "Node.js Cookbook, Third Edition" edited by Packt.
In the summer he loves sailing the Sirocco.

Michele Riva
NearForm, Italy
Talk: Managing Authentication in Next.js
I'm a passionate and experienced software engineer, Google GDE, and Microsoft MVP working full-time on open-source software. I currently work as a Staff Engineer at NearForm while traveling the world to speak at international conferences. I am also developing Lyra, the next-generation full-text search engine written entirely in TypeScript.
I am always up for speaking about software, philosophy, photography... or literally whatever comes to your mind!

Neil Manvar
Sentry, USA
Talk: Tracking errors and slowdowns in Node + JavaScript using Sentry
Neil Manvar is an engineer dedicated to helping developers ship quality code quickly. In his free time, you can find him cycling, snowboarding, or cuddling with his dog. He currently works as a Solutions Engineering Manager at Sentry, an Application Monitoring software company that helps software teams discover, triage, and optimize the performance of their code.

Alexander Weekes
Toptal, UK
Talk: How To Design A Sustainable Freelance/Contracting Career
Alex's skills as a project manager helped integrate athlete management tech into many UK universities such as Birmingham City University. He joined Toptal to add his expertise in agile methodologies and best practice leadership techniques to help complete innovative projects and add value to end users' products. As a PMI member, he is proficient at operating within a varied company structure from SMEs to enterprise organizations.

Andrew Reddikh
Redco, UK
Talk: How to Convert Crypto Currencies with Microservices in Node.js and GRPC
Passionate software engineer with expertise in software development, microservice architecture, and cloud infrastructure. On daily basis, I use Node.js, TypeScript, Golang, and DevOps best practices to build a better tech world by contributing to open source projects.

Nikolas Burk
Prisma, Germany
Talk: Database Workflows & API Development with Prisma
Nikolas is passionate about learning, teaching, and helping other developers succeed. He has been with Prisma for more than four years, loves hosting workshops, and always enjoys opportunities where he can get in direct touch with the developer community.
Shedrack Akintayo
Software Developer, Developer Advocate, Technical Writer, Nigeria
Talk: Deploying a decoupled restaurant review site to production with Strapi and Platform.sh
Shedrack is a Developer Advocate and Technical Writer from Lagos, Nigeria. He loves community building, open source, and a has knack for improving developer experience of developer focused products.

Ben Hagan
PolyScale, USA
Talk: Scaling Databases For Global Serverless Applications
Ben is the Founder of PolyScale.ai where he works to make scaling databases globally, simple for developers and architects. Ben has been working with distributed systems and big data for over a decade, leading Solution Architecture teams at companies such as DataSift, Elastic and Rockset.