December 2 - 5, 2022
Berlin & Online
React Day Berlin 2022
Build code, not walls
Josh Goldberg
Open Source, USA
Talk: Statically Detecting React App Bugs with TypeScript and ESLint
Hi, I’m Josh! I’m an independent full time open source developer. I work on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem, most notably typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. I’m also the author of the O’Reilly Learning TypeScript book, a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, and an active conference speaker. My personal projects range from static analysis to meta-languages to recreating retro games in the browser. Also cats.
Nik Graf
Serenity, Austria
Talk: The Weird Things About React
Nik is the founder of Serenity and is passionate about cryptography, CRDTs, GraphQL and React. He co-created several popular open source projects like DraftJS Plugins and Polished and participated in Stripe’s Open Source Retreat. In his spare-time he enjoys ski touring, cycling and organising the ReactJS Vienna meetup.
Aleksandra Sikora
EdgeDB, Poland
Talk: Take a Rest From REST (And GraphQL)
Aleksandra is a full-stack engineer currently working on developer experience at EdgeDB. Previously a tech lead for the Hasura Console and a lead maintainer of Blitz.js. Deeply passionate about open-source, TypeScript and dedicated to staying up to date with the JavaScript ecosystem. In love with all things climbing — hiking, via ferratas, rock climbing.
Elizabet Oliveira
Elastic, Distributed, Portugal
Talk: Emotional & Functional UI Animations in React
Elizabet is a designer who likes to code. As a ReactJS enthusiast, she built and maintains React-Kawaii. A React library of fun kawaii characters that won "Fun Side Project of the Year" in React Amsterdam Open Source Awards 2018. Besides that, her passion for music and past experience as the first female rapper in Portugal under a major deal, led her to start Cassette Tape. The HTML5 based looper and recorder has granted her a spot in Google I/0 Dublin, in 2016. Also, a big fan of open-source, she has recently released a song for the designer/dev community called "Fork This" (2020).
Elizabet currently works as Senior Product Designer for Elastic. Her mission is to bridge the gap between front-end and design.
Shivay Lamba
TensorFlowJS Working Group Lead, India
Talk: Using MediaPipe to Create Cross Platform Machine Learning Applications with React
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.
Kamlesh Chandnani
Razorpay, India
Talk: The Sorcery of Building a Cross Platform Design System Architecture
Kamlesh is a Principal Frontend Engineer at Razorpay working on Design System and Frontend Infrastructure. Recently he has developed a fascination for interior designing and has a zest for home decor.
Hussien Khayoon
Shopify, Canada
Talk: Lessons Learned From Troubleshooting a Shopping Cart Issue
Hussien is a Staff Developer at Shopify. He has over 10 year of Fullstack experience with a particular soft spot for React. He also mentors for a coding bootcamp and loves helping beginners break into tech.
Nicola Corti
Meta, UK
Talk: Bringing the New React Native Architecture to the OSS Community - Fall Edition
Nicola Corti is a software engineer in the React Native Core team at Meta, where he helps to build one of the most popular cross-platform mobile framework.
Nicola is also a Google Developer Expert for Kotlin, and he is the maintainer of several open-source libraries and tools for Android developers.
His involvement in the ecosystem goes from speaking at international conferences to being a member of CFP committees, and supporting developer communities across Europe.
In his free time, he loves running! Specifically, running a podcast (The Developers' Bakery - all about Open source) and running Marathons!
Arisa Fukuzaki
Storyblok, Germany
Talk: Let’s Remix to Localize Content!
Arisa is a Frontend Developer who became a DevRel Engineer. She works at Storyblok to share and improve better DX through talks, maintaining SDKs, and tutorials. Her mission is to learn, speak, connect and help. Outside of her work, she is a GDE and a GirlCode ambassador. In her private time, she is a longboarder, a snowboarder, a yogi, and an Aikido fighter.
Naz Delam
LinkedIn, USA
Talk: Power Up your GraphQL Apps with CDNs
Naz is a software engineering manager at LinkedIn and Technology Career Coach. She is passionate about UI Engineering, Career Development, and growth skills. Before LinkedIn, she worked at Netflix, leading Animation teams and in the Finance industry as a Software Architect.
Naz is dedicated to advancing and growing the careers of many engineers across the world 🌎 . She is an active Career Coach on MentorCruise. She also volunteers with Hour of Code, teaching high school girls how to code, and serves as a member of MentorCruise and BuiltByGirls to coach engineers.
You’ll likely find her exploring the world 🌱, playing games, or curled up with a good book and coffee when she's not working. 📚☕
Alex Moldovan
CodeSandbox, Romania
Talk: Fighting Technical Debt With Continuous Refactoring
Alex is Product Engineer at CodeSandbox, where he mixes his passion user experience with the interest in creating better tooling for developers. He is also an organizer for JSHeroes, one of the biggest JS/Frontend conferences in Romania.
Sami Jaber
Builder.io, Canada
Talk: It's Time to De-Fragment the Web
Following a stint in data engineering, I have spent the past 6 years focused on web development.
After building elegant & highly performant user experiences at Unsplash as the Web Team Lead, I have now shifted focus to developing SDKs & maintaining Mitosis @ Builder.io.
I am currently the core maintainer of Mitosis, a trail-blazing open-source project that allows engineers to write their components once and build them for every web framework out there.
Giorgio Boa
Claranet, Italy
Talk: Get rid of your API schemas with tRPC
Giorgio Boa is a full stack developer and the front-end ecosystem is his passion. He started to develop applications in 2006 and in 2012 he falls in love with JavaScript. He is also active in open source ecosystem, he loves learn and studies new things. He is very ambitious and he tries to improve himself every day.
Matheus Albuquerque
Medallia, Czech Republic
Talk: Consistent UX at Scale: Lessons Learned When I Wore the DesignOps Hat
Matheus is a Sr. Front-End Engineer at Medallia, building their surveys platform and helping them shape the customer experience market with React, and a Google Developer Expert in Web Performance.
His areas of interest include React and its ecosystem, JS and compile-to-JS languages, DX, and perceived performance optimization. Aside from public speaking about these, he also volunteers at TechLabs, teaching front-end development.
Moataz Nabil
Bitrise, Germany
Talk: A Nutshell Guide to React Native DevOps
Moataz has over 12 years of experience in testing and development roles across industries such as agriculture, telecom, healthcare, fashion, and food delivery. Moataz is currently a Developer Advocate at Bitrise, helping mobile engineers deliver fast, reliable, and secure mobile apps. He also helps companies build their own developer productivity teams. As well as being an AWS Community Builder, he also teaches on TAU and Udemy. His experience includes building automation projects for large and distributed projects from scratch.
Alessandro Senese
Formidable, UK
Talk: How to Start Your Journey Into Mobile Accessibility?
Hi, I'm Alessandro, a software developer from London. I build a mobile app at Formidable using React Native. I truly believe it is our responsibility to push for accessibility to be considered first-class citizens in our development flow.
Cristobal Chao
Torii, USA
Talk: Accelerate Innovation
Cristobal Chao is a software engineer, UX specialist and founder of Torii Studio, a studio that helps small to large companies implement front-end processes and systems that are easier to scale efficiently while building beautiful UI/UX products.
Prior to forming Torii Studio, Mr. Chao worked as a Software Engineer in companies like Google and Oracle. Also, he worked as the first software engineer for Hattery Labs, a front-end consultancy acquired by Google in 2013.
At Google, he worked as part of the Material Design team building the first two versions of Material Design, as well as evangelizing the systems across Google Search, Maps and Google for Work.
Konstantin Klimashevich
Xebia, Netherlands
Talk: How I Automated Code Changes for 100 Repositories: Getting Started With Codemods
Konstantin works for Xebia as an IT professional with 10+ years of experience in software development, analysing, designing and developing enterprise applications, social games and services. In his spare time he's passionate about running, race cars and JavaScript.
Egor Ogarkov
JetBrains, Germany
Talk: Less Struggle With Lifetimes
Software Engineer at JetBrains and programming languages polyglot. I do like brining things from other languages and environments and mixing them together to create new ideas. Before I became an engineer, I played DotA and DotA 2 professionally ;)
Brendon Co
Standard Chartered, Singapore
Talk: Introduction to Library Market Place
Originally from Singapore. Brendon is an expert UI expert at Standard Chartered and published multiple books in amazon and leanpub. In his free time, he writes about Remix starterkit, Micro Frontend book and sell UI components.
Riaz Virani
Find Niya Software, Canada
Talk: Writing Chrome Extensions in React
Riaz Virani has over a decade of experience in building products and engineering teams. He was most recently CTO at LoadUp Technologies, which topped out at 118 on the Inc 500 Fastest Growing privately-held companies in 2019. Prior to that, Riaz worked in web performance, machine learning, and consulting.
Illia Kibalnyi
Nord Security, Ukraine, Germany
Talk: Generic Components with TS and React
~10y of experience as a full stack engineer with a focus shifted from the backend to the frontend since ~5 years ago. For the past 5 years live in Berlin, Germany. Like strict typing, functional programming, tech in general, traveling, and gaming.
Katarzyna Wojdalska
ec0lint, Poland
Talk: Digital Ecology: How Can You Mitigate the Carbon Footprint of Websites?
Katarzyna is the Co-founder and CEO of ec0lint - a tool for frontend developers that mitigates the carbon footprint of websites. On top of that, she works as a Project Manager in the nanotechnology company Nanores. Her focus lies on diamonds and vacuum sensors. Katarzyna enjoys cooking Asian food and visiting art exhibitions in her free time.