Aug 30 - Sep 3, 2021

Online
React Finland 2021
Online event about #reactjs with a hint of #Finland in it.

m4dz 🥑🦄
‹div›RIOTS, France
Talk: The Eternal Sunshine of the Zero Build Pipeline
Principal Developer Advocate at ‹div›RIOTS - makers of Backlight, a Design Systems IDE built for Designers and Developers - m4dz is a curious animal. Former Frontend Dev, Devtools enthusiast, he has made the Developer eXperience (DX) his cherished topic. All the Web technologies are under his radar to get things ever simpler. His motto: "Developers are users just like you." As a life-long dreamer, his favourite book will ever remain "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".

David Leitner
SQUER, Austria
Talk: Micro Frontends in React — a State of the Art Approach
David is Coding Architect at SQUER, a Viennese Software Company, which is working with different stacks and environments, but always an overarching mission: connect ideas and provide impact — with technology. He spends much of his time on the frontlines tackling the challenges of scaling software and complex domains, with a strong focus on reactive systems, cloud-native architectures and state of the art web technologies. David enjoys sharing his knowledge as a speaker at conferences and as a lecturer for his post-diploma courses at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna.

Gleb Bahmutov
Mercari, USA
Talk: Integration Testing for React Native Apps
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.

David Khourshid
Stately, USA
Talk: The State of XState
David Khourshid (known on Twitter as David K. Piano) is a software engineer for Microsoft, a tech author, and speaker. Also a fervent open-source contributor, he is passionate about statecharts and software modeling, reactive animations, innovative user interfaces, and cutting-edge front-end technologies. When not behind a computer keyboard, he’s behind a piano keyboard or traveling.

m4dz 🥑🦄
‹div›RIOTS, France
Talk: Design Systems of a Down: Steal this Guide!
Principal Developer Advocate at ‹div›RIOTS - makers of Backlight, a Design Systems IDE built for Designers and Developers - m4dz is a curious animal. Former Frontend Dev, Devtools enthusiast, he has made the Developer eXperience (DX) his cherished topic. All the Web technologies are under his radar to get things ever simpler. His motto: "Developers are users just like you." As a life-long dreamer, his favourite book will ever remain "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".

Max Stoiber
GraphCDN, Austria
Talk: How to cache GraphQL queries at the edge
JavaScript Engineer from Austria in love with React and Node. Previously he worked at GitHub, who acquired the startup he co-founded, Spectrum. He is well known for making styled-components, react-boilerplate, and a wide variety of other open source projects in the React ecosystem.

Liran Tal
Snyk, Israel
Talk: You thought your React application is secure? Think again
Liran Tal is a software developer, and a GitHub Star, world-recognized for his activism in open source communities and advancing web and Node.js security. He engages in security research through his work in the OpenJS Foundation and the Node.js ecosystem security working group, and further promotes open source supply chain security as an OWASP project lead. Liran is also a published author of Essential Node.js Security and O'Reilly's Serverless Security. At Snyk, he is leading the developer advocacy team and on a mission to empower developers with better dev-first security.

Patrick Ecker
Independent Consultant, Austria
Talk: The Story of ReScript's Documentation Platform
Patrick is a frontend engineer at Rohea Oy, building the next big sales enablement platform built on Flow, ReScript, React and PHP. He is also core team member of the ReScript programming language, working on the language's tooling infrastructure and documentation website.

Juri Strumpflohner
Nx, Italy
Talk: React on Steroids with Nx!
Juri Strumpflohner lives in the very northern part of Italy and is currently working as a JavaScript Architect and Engineering Manager at Nrwl, where he consults for some of the world's biggest companies around the globe. Juri is very involved in the community. He's a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies & Angular, speaks at international conferences, teaches on Egghead.io, or writes articles on https://juri.dev. He's also a core member of Nx.

Paul Henschel
react-three-fiber, Switzerland
Talk: Breaking out of the confines: making games in React
Front-end developer. Currently living in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Founder of Luxundlaune, a photography platform in Germany, Paranoidandroid, a custom rom for Android and several open source projects including react-spring, react-three-fiber, react-use-gesture, zustand.

Lainey Feingold
Law Office of Lainey Feingold, USA
Talk: The Digital Accessibility Legal Landscape – why it matters for developers
Lainey Feingold is a disability rights lawyer in the United States who has worked to make the digital world more inclusive since 1995 and negotiated the first web accessibility agreement in the United States in 2000. Lainey is an international speaker and the Digital Accessibility Resource for the global business to business non-profit Disability:IN. Lainey believes in collaboration over conflict. She developed and practices Structured Negotiation, a problem-solving strategy that avoids lawsuits and focuses on lasting change and relationship-building in the digital accessibility space. She is the author of Structured Negotiation: A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits.

Mika Schafroth
RELEX Solutions, Finland
Talk: Becoming a React developer - A hiring manager’s perspective
Business-oriented software product engineer (M.Sc. in computer science) featuring 15 years of professional involvement in the entire life-cycle of digital products. Experience developing a variety of disruptive Internet technologies. Insights into modern travel, smart cities, the gig economy and social networking services.

Krutie Patel
Deloitte Digital Australia, Australia
Talk: Brief introduction to Nuxt
I'm a front-end developer. I create interactive web stuff using Vue js and Nuxt js. Some other frameworks and libraries I also enjoy working with include GSAP, Laravel ⚡️ and Jamstack (JavaScript, APIs + Markup). I love writing ✏️ articles about what I learn and share with Vue/Nuxt community. You can find my blog-posts on my website, which is also created using 👑 Nuxt js.
Apart from this, I also love creating colour-coded diagrams. I create them to capture and document my learning. Diagraming have been an effective tool in my learning journey of Laravel, Vue js and of course, my absolute favourite, Nuxt js.