September 21 - 22, 2023
TS Congress
Online
TypeScript Congress 2023

The Type of Conference Developers Need

TS Congress is an online event for web developers on all things TypesScript. Learn from industry professionals and community members, exchange ideas, interact, and collaborate in the form of a modern tech event. September 21 & 22, 2023.

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Matteo Collina
Matteo Collina
Platformatic, Italy
Talk: Generating types without climbing a tree
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.
Lydia Hallie
Lydia Hallie
Vercel, The Netherlands
Talk: Exploring the TypeScript-first architecture of modern frameworks
Lydia Hallie is a software engineer specializing in TypeScript, React, and Web Performance. In her free time, she enjoys creating visualized resources on lower-level technical concepts. She currently works as Staff Developer Advocate at Vercel.
Mark Erikson
Mark Erikson
Replay.io, USA
Talk: Publishing TS Libraries for Fun and Profit
Mark Erikson is a Senior Front-End Engineer at Replay, and lives in southwest Ohio, USA. Mark is a Redux maintainer, creator of Redux Toolkit, and general keeper of the Redux docs. He tweets at @acemarke, and blogs at https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com. He spends much of his time answering questions about React and Redux anywhere there's a comment box on the internet, and usually hangs out in the Reactiflux chat channels.
Orta Therox
Orta Therox
USA
Talk: What is "TC39: Type Annotations" aka the Types as Comments proposal
Orta is a developer/designer who works on web-powered games. Prior to that, he worked on the TypeScript team in Microsoft. He has a decade of open source contributions ranging across many eco-systems, helps maintain a dependency manager for iOS, built Danger in many languages, contributes to working groups like GraphQL and in core teams like Jest, Svelte and React Native. You've probably seen his open-source design work in the React/TypeScript ecosystem.
Daniel Roe
Daniel Roe
Nuxt, UK
Talk: Making Magic: Building a TypeScript-First Framework
Daniel leads the Nuxt core team - previously CTO of SaaS startup and founder of a creative agency focusing on clarity of vision and message. His open-source work has a focus in the Vue.js and Nuxt ecosystems and he's involved in consultancy with companies around the world, particularly around JAMstack, serverless and software architecture. He's based in Scotland where he lives with his family and cat.
Daniel Rosenwasser
Daniel Rosenwasser
Microsoft, USA
Talk: Taming Language Models through TypeScript
Daniel is a language designer and PM on TypeScript.
Lucas Santos
Lucas Santos
OpenVolt, Sweden
Talk: TypeScript Survival Guide: Life-Saving Tips and Techniques
Lucas is a Brazilian programmer, content creator, and professional trainer who works as Senior Software Engineer at Klarna. He's been working working with Web applications for over a decade, especially with JavaScript and TypeScript. He's also a Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, and Docker Captain who has been talking about technology both nationally and internationally for years. Member & Contributor to Node.js, TC39 Outreach, KEDA Project, and the TypeScript language.
Ryan Cavanaugh
Ryan Cavanaugh
Microsoft, USA
Talk: Let's Make a Generic Inference Algorithm
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.
Aleksandra Sikora
Aleksandra Sikora
EdgeDB, Poland
Talk: TypeScript Performance: Going Beyond the Surface
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.
 Stefan Baumgartner
Stefan Baumgartner
Oida.dev, Austria
Talk: The Lies We Tell Ourselves Using TypeScript
Stefan Baumgartner is a software architect based in Austria and the owner of oida.dev. He is the author of “TypeScript in 50 Lessons”, published by Smashing Magazine, and "The TypeScript Cookbook", published by O'Reilly. He organizes ScriptConf, DevOne, and Rust Linz, and co-hosts the German-language Working Draft podcast. Stefan enjoys Italian food, Belgian beer, and British vinyl records.
Matt Butcher
Matt Butcher
Fermyon, USA
Talk: Running TypeScript in WebAssembly on the Cloud
Matt Butcher is co-founder and CEO of Fermyon, the serverless WebAssembly in the cloud company. He is one of the original creators of Helm, Brigade, CNAB, OAM, Glide and Krustlet. He has written and co-written many books, including "Learning Helm" and "Go in Practice." He is a co-creator of the "Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes" series. These days, he works mostly on WebAssembly projects such as Spin, Fermyon Cloud and Bartholomew. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He lives in Colorado, where he drinks lots of coffee.
Mateusz Burzyński
Mateusz Burzyński
Stately, Poland
Talk: Infer multiple things at once with reverse mapped types
My name is Mateusz Burzyński and I'm a JavaScript developer focused on React ecosystem. I'm also a big OSS enthusiast. I believe that node_modules is not a black box and I dive into it frequently - that has led me to maintain a few popular repositories like XState, Emotion, Changesets, Redux-Saga. Recently, I also started to contribute to TypeScript itself.
Lizz Parody
Lizz Parody
Stateful, Colombia
Talk: Unlocking TypeScript's Potential: Exploring the Power of Ecosystem Tooling
Lizz is a community-taught Software Engineer focused on JavaScript. 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.
Maël Nison
Maël Nison
Datadog, France
Talk: How to make our CLIs safer with types?
Maël is a distinguished software engineer, recognized for his contributions to the tech industry. He is currently the lead maintainer for Yarn, a popular JavaScript package manager. Maël's expertise extends across multiple domains, but he specializes in front-end development, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Known for his practical and innovative solutions, Maël's work has been integral to improving JavaScript's ecosystem. Apart from his professional achievements, Maël is a passionate advocate for open source projects and contributes to various initiatives.
Kevin Whinnery
Kevin Whinnery
Deno, USA
Talk: Using TypeScript with Key/Value Databases
Kevin Whinnery is the Head of Developer Relations for Deno, the new TypeScript and JavaScript runtime from the creator of Node.js. Kevin is a long-time web developer, teacher, and author to a number of successful open source projects like the twilio-node module, TerminalQuest, and several others best left in the dustbin of history (unless you need a SOAP API client). Kevin lives just outside Minneapolis, MN, where he will gladly point you to your favorite local cuisine upon request.
Jamie Barton
Jamie Barton
Dev Rel @ Turso
Talk: Unify Data Sources with GraphQL at the edge
Working with Databases, APIs, GraphQL and Web3
Akash Joshi
Akash Joshi
SigTech, UK
Talk: Unleashing Object Proxies: Building Type-Safe Wrappers for Anything
A Senior Software Engineer at SigTech, Akash is a self-taught programmer who started his journey from playing video games to developing them. Spending the last year building software at Meta, he's now helping build apps at a rapid speed through the power of React and Typescript.
Jenn Junod
Jenn Junod
Aiven, USA
Talk: Lessons Learned While Learning Live
Jenn is a multifaceted individual with a passion for technology and a heart for people. Currently, she works as a Developer Advocate for Aiven, where she helps developers harness the power of data infrastructure. Outside of work, Jenn hosts Teach Jenn Tech, about exploring technology. Jenn also hosts a thought-provoking podcast called Sh!t You Don't Want to Talk About, where she fearlessly dives into challenging topics such as mental health, equity, and diversity. Her goal is to create a safe and welcoming space for honest conversations, where people from all backgrounds can feel heard and understood. Jenn's focus is on PostgreSQL and TypeScript and she is always eager to learn and explore new technologies. She thrives on diving deep into complex problems, finding elegant solutions whether she's coding, teaching, or podcasting. Jenn is an advocate for social justice, striving to make the tech industry more equitable and diverse, ensuring everyone has a seat at the table. In all her endeavors, Jenn is a force to be reckoned with, fueled by her love of people and her passion for technology.
Andrew Branch
Andrew Branch
Microsoft, USA
Talk: Are the (module) types wrong?
Andrew joined the TypeScript team at Microsoft in 2019. As a former frontend developer, one day he looked too closely at the differences between Node and bundlers and has been falling down the rabbit hole of JavaScript modules ever since. He's currently on a quixotic mission to fix every npm package with arethetypeswrong.github.io—or at least fix a few while leaving behind some good documentation.
David Blass
David Blass
ArkType, USA
Talk: ArkType: Bringing TypeScript to Runtime
David Blass is a full-time open source TypeScript developer and author of ArkType, a 1:1 validator for TypeScript. ArkType is the first validator to include a static parser that can infer TypeScript’s syntax as well as a full type system that can compare arbitrary pairs of types for assignability and automatically discriminate unions. Predictably, David loves parsers and types, but also bow ties and his wife’s vegan cooking. He lives with her and their 5 pets in Boston, Massachusetts, and is currently pursuing funding to continue working on ArkType full-time!
Titian-Cornel Cernicova-Dragomir
Titian-Cornel Cernicova-Dragomir
Bloomberg, Romania
Talk: Faster TypeScript builds with --isolatedDeclarations
I am a developer in the JavaScript infrastructure team at Bloomberg where I work on JavaScript and TypeScript tooling for internal developers. I am very passionate about TypeScript and try to help others by answering TypeScript questions on Stack Overflow. I am currently the number 3 answerer for the TypeScript tag. (https://stackoverflow.com/tags/typescript/topusers). I am also a TypeScript compiler contributor, where I recently contributed the implementation of ES class private methods and private static members. (https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/graphs/contributors).
Jake Bailey
Jake Bailey
Microsoft, USA
Talk: Migrating TypeScript to Modules: The Fine Details
I'm Jake and I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft working on TypeScript. I'm mainly focusing on performance and infrastructure, but still work on whatever's fun (or manages to nerd-snipe me)! Before TypeScript, I worked on Pylance and pyright on Microsoft's Python team.
Nathalia Rus
Nathalia Rus
Custodian, UK
Talk: From Theory to Practice: harnessing Typescript for successful Atomic Design implementation
Co-Founder of Custodian, VC-backed insurtech startup based in London. Nathalia also created Metos - metos.app, a platform for writers. French multi-awards technologist, you can find her on instagram at @yeahgirlscode where she documents her journey in tech. Outside of coding, Nathalia trains in Muay Thai and enjoys playing different musical instruments.
David Sherret
David Sherret
Deno, Canada
Talk: Replacing Shell Scripts with Cross-Platform TypeScript
I'm David and work as a software developer on Deno. In the past, I worked professionally in the medical device and healthcare industry. I maintain several TypeScript related open source projects and have been using TypeScript for almost 10 years.
Maria Solano
Maria Solano
Microsoft, Canada
Talk: How TypeScript is integrated in your editor
My name is Maria and I'm a software engineer at Microsoft in the TypeScript team. I mostly focus on its language support in Visual Studio, but I also work in the JavaScript project system and the integration of other language servers into the IDE (like ESLint and Angular). When I'm not debugging mysterious code I didn't write, I enjoy giving my 2¢ to open source.
Artur Kenzhaev
Artur Kenzhaev
Zoa, UK
Talk: Enhanced AST Static Analysis with Typescript Language Server
I'm Artur and I'm a Tech Lead at Zoa in Apps Platform team, which is mainly focused on Typescript, React and React Native ecosystem, providing tools, pipelines and libraries for other teams to build cross-platform applications.
Tibor Blenessy
Tibor Blenessy
SonarSource, Slovakia
Talk: Advanced linting rules with ESLint
I am a Software Engineer at SonarSource working on JavaScript/TypeScript static analysis in SonarQube, SonarCloud, and SonarLint. I am passionate about coding and developer tools. I want to help developers write reliable and secure code.
Michael Poteat
Michael Poteat
Volley Inc, USA
Talk: The Potential of Higher-Kinded Types for Library Semantics
Located in the vibrant city of San Francisco, Mike Poteat is a committed technical leader, skilled software engineer, and approachable people manager. His areas of interest are wide-ranging and encompass programming, type theory, pure mathematics, and more. In the open-source world, Mike has had the opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects. One of these, hkt-toolbelt, applies higher-kinded types to TypeScript in an attempt to expand its functionality. Additionally, he's worked on spellbound, an agent-based LLM-powered VS Code extension that aims to enhance the usability of the platform. Currently, Mike finds himself immersed in the voice AI industry at a startup backed by Y Combinator. He's part of a team working on the front lines of artificial intelligence, continually learning and evolving their approach to create cutting-edge solutions. Away from his day job, Mike takes time to reflect and share his experiences on his blog, code.lol. He delves into topics around machine learning, programming, and other tech-related subjects, hoping that his musings might offer value to others exploring these fields.
Paul Serraino
Paul Serraino
Rollbar, USA
Talk: Generating Typed Code
Senior software engineer at Rollbar with over 10 years of experience building web applications.