#graphql

Building ChatterbugApp and RedwoodJS. Formerly: GitHub cofounder/CEO. Board at Netlify and Hack Club. Angel investor, pilot. Also: Gravatar, Jekyll, SemVer, TOML.

Nader is an author, open source developer, and Developer Relations Engineer working in the blockchain space with Edge & Node and The Graph Protocol.

Hi, I'm Josh! I'm a frontend developer from New York with a passion for open source, static analysis, and the web. I work at Codecademy as a frontend engineer on our core Web Platform team. I'm passionate about open source and bringing accessible education to the masses in a sustainable way.

Learning by doing is the best way to learn and it’s how Colby Fayock helps others learn about Javascript, React, and the static web. His work includes writing on freecodecamp.org, videos on YouTube, and courses on egghead.io as well as his first book 50 Projects for React & the Static Web.

Naz is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. She is passionate about UI engineering, Psychology and cats! 🐈 . At Netflix, she works on the product engineering team to enhance user experience across platforms. Prior to Netflix, she worked in the Finance industry as a Software Architect. 👩🏻‍💻 Naz is dedicated to advancing the role of women in engineering. 👩👩🏻👩🏼👩🏽👩🏾 She volunteers with Hour of Code teaching high school girls how to code and serves as a member of MentorCruise and BuiltByGirls to coach engineers. When she’s not working, you’re most likely to find her exploring the world 🌱, playing games, or curled up with a good book and a cup of coffee. 📚☕

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.

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.

Alexander is a full-stack developer that spends his day to day with PHP and Drupal. Front-end work is done using ReScript, React and GraphQL and as a hobby he's building things with Rust. At Open Social he is a Lead Engineer and drives the development of the GraphQL API and a new decoupled front-end. As the first decoupled project at Open Social he has architected and implemented a Real-Time Chat.

Roy Derks is a developer, author and public speaker from the Netherlands. His mission is to make the world a better place through tech by training and inspiring developers worldwide. Currently he is working with StepZen on a mission to make GraphQL adoption easy and scalable.

Anjana suffers from a chronic case of curiosity, which led her from philosophy to English teaching to computational linguistics to software development. As a developer advocate at Observable, these days she codes & teaches from her home base in San Francisco; in the before-times, you could find her speaking at events around the world. She loves to share the joy of programming and advocate for a more diverse, equitable, and ethical tech industry. Ask her about the Recurse Center & Outreachy, she’s an alumna of both!

Zachary is a Senior DevOps Engineer at StackHawk. As a startup junkie, he has played many roles including operations, engineering, product development, and leadership. In his current role, he is focused on the evolving CI/CD landscape and how this diverse set of technologies can be used to improve the productivity of software developers, and the quality of the code they produce. Outside of work he enjoys music, photography, cycling, and various pastimes.

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.

Natalia Tepluhina is a Vue.js core team member and a Staff Frontend Engineer at GitLab. She is a conference speaker and author of articles on different topics related to Vue.js . Thanks to these activities Natalia has got a title of Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies.

Tanmai Gopal is the CEO, co-founder of Hasura. He is a StackOverflow powered fullstack developer whose areas of interest and work span React, GraphQL, Nodejs, Haskell, Docker, Postgres & Kubernetes. He is passionate about making it easy to build complex things and is the instructor of India's largest MOOC imad.tech with over 250,000 students.

Engineering & Design Manager helping build things for GraphQL at Apollo. Currently working on the new Apollo Explorer.

Engineering Manager at Formidable, building things in JavaScript, particularly with React Native and GraphQL.

Uri Goldshtein is the founder of The Guild, the largest open source group in the GraphQL ecosystem. They support large companies to go through successful technological transformations.

Ryan is a full stack developer and loves all things React, Node, and GraphQL. He's also a big fan of web security, a topic he has written about extensively and taught thousands of developers on. Ryan is also the founder of CourseLift, a course hosting platform that helps authors earn more from their online courses. He blogs at ryanchenkie.com.

Nikhil is a Software Engineer at Yugabyte. He is leading the efforts on YugabyteDB integrations with open source developer tools like GraphQL, Spring Data, R2DBC, and Kubernetes. He also works with the developer community on the adoption of Distributed SQL databases in cloud native applications. He has presented at major developer conferences, including Spring One Platform, PostgreSQL Conference, and Distributed SQL Conference. He is originally from Mysore, India, and has a master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University.

Taz is a serial founder, startup advisor, technical management consultant, former organizer of TorontoJS, and GraphQL expert. He’s more recently known for his work on realtime GraphQL systems and cross-platform embeddable experiences which have allowed him to provide sophisticated offerings for wide reaching impact. When he’s not behind a computer, he can be found chasing his cat or being chased on a race track.

Allison is a solutions engineer at Hasura.

Open-source contributor. JS fanatic. I love optimizing workflows.

DesignOps — Frontend-Developer and Node.js enthusiast working @Dynatrace with a passion for enhancing design workflows

Andy is a Software Engineer at GraphCDN and maintains of a number of Open Source projects including urql devtools and Fielder. Not a pro at tennis but is always down for a hit 🎾

Oli is VP of NeuraLegion's developer focussed security testing platform, helping developers understand how they can run seamless, fast and accurate security tests on every build. Oli works closely with security and engineering teams globally to help them ship secure software more efficiently and is passionate about automation, CI/CD and DevOps / DevSecOps. Oli has spoken at many conferences internationally and is a regular at developer and security related events and meetups.

Co-Founder, CTO & Security Researcher at NeuraLegion. Developer and security researcher, I love playing with Neural networks and other ML tools. I'm interested in new programming languages and the potential they bring.

Jesse Martin is a fanatic of brand, product and web development and talks about the future of content management and GraphQL for GraphCMS. He was an early adopter of React and loves all things tech, health, and design.

Full Stack Web Developer with expertise in all aspects of the web development life cycle, including requirements analysis, design, development and production support. Primary strengths are Node & Javascript (ES6, React, Vue), React Native, Ruby on Rails, Amazon Web Services/Heroku, and SQL + NoSQL Database Management.

Co-creator of @GraphQL and Director of GraphQL Foundation. I make teams and things @RobinhoodApp, previously @Facebook

I'm a software engineer at Twitter working on the Core API Team helping build the next generation API with GraphQL and Scala. I currently serve on the GraphQL Governing Board as a representative of Twitter. Previously, I worked at Medium as the tech lead of the Platform Team, jumpstarting Medium's move to GraphQL.

Community-funded OSS maintainer, building for GraphQL, Node.js and PostgreSQL (PostGraphile, Graphile Worker, …). GraphQL TSC & Spec WG member

Senior Software Engineer | GraphQL & React advocate | TC39 delegate | Conference speaker | EggHead instructor | Tech blogger | Content creator

Mobile Developer Advocate at Apollo

GraphQL Technical Steering Committee, Principal Software Engineering Manager at PayPal.

I'm a software engineer who specializes in building web apps using Python, GraphQL and React. Currently, I work as a lead developer at Saleor. I speak at tech conferences about Python and GraphQL. I'm a runner, musician and traveler in my free time. I'm based in Wrocław, Poland.

Ankita is an Associate Architect at Treebo. She likes writing technical blogs and makes it a point to explain convoluted technical jargon in simple and concise language.

Robert is a Ruby developer specializing in APIs, application design, and performance. Besides maintaining GraphQL-Ruby, he enjoys fermenting anything he can get his hands on.

Mark is a Full Stack Engineer on the Client Data API team at Yelp, leading efforts for web.

I'm a computer scientist by education, a software developer by trade, and a serial technologist at heart. In short, my passion is solving technical problems. As a solutions architect at Tyk, I help companies design and architect API management platforms and digital transformation journeys.

Johan Eliasson is CEO & Co-Founder of Nhost. Johan has been building apps his whole life and is passionate about making it easy to develop web and mobile apps. Prior to Nhost, Johan helped grow his family business, driving innovation in the Swedish water treatment market. Johan graduated from Blekinge Institute of Technology with a Master of Science in Computer Security, Computer & Information Systems.

Experienced Customer Success professional with a history of working in developer tooling and startups. Extensive background as a support professional.

William Lyon is a Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j where he helps developers be successful with graphs. Prior to joining Neo4j William worked as a software developer for several startups, building mobile apps, quantitative finance tools, and predictive API services. William holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Montana and is the author of the book "Full Stack GraphQL" published by Manning. You can find him online at [lyonwj.com](http://lyonwj.com/).

Currently, Robert Hostlowsky is working as a developer, coach and systems engineer. He published an online video course about developing a full-stack GraphQL application online-course. He loves DevOps culture on modern cloud infrastructure, uses the latest state-of-the-art web technologies, and loves how it plays nicely together at minimum effort and cost. He loves web technologies. Feeling being a part of the developer community he is co-organizing the JSCraftcamp, Munich.

Maxime has been working with MongoDB for the past 7 years and in the IT industry for 10 years. He is a MongoDB and Java trainer, with DEV and DBA MongoDB certifications. Maxime joined MongoDB as a Developer Advocate 3.5 years ago to share his experience with the community. He loves clean code, scuba diving, code challenges and vikings!

Lenny is a Solutions Architect at Apollo Graph in San Francisco, CA. He was previously a software engineer and graph champion at Square. When he’s not thinking and talking endlessly about GraphQL and frontend, he’s probably trying to recreate some dish from a YouTube cooking video or hanging out with his wife and son.

I’m a Senior Software Engineer at Unity Technologies and Open Source developer working in GraphQL land with Node.js and TypeScript.

Bob is CEO and co-founder of SeMI Technologies, the business created around the open-source vector search engine Weaviate. Besides SeMI and Weaviate. Bob is a frequent speaker on the topics of open source, digital technology, software business, and creativity. He has spoken at around 100 events on the aforementioned topics in Europe, the US, and Russia.

Stephan Schneider is a backend developer at Contentful. Since 2018 GraphQL is not just an interesting technology for him anymore when he started participating in the company's initial development of their first GraphQL API. He has not stepped back since and constantly plays with new ways to integrate pre-existing data into GraphQL.

Software Engineer at Stellate, passionate about problem solving and company building, using GraphQL, JavaScript and React

I am a strong full stack developer, and a Ruby on Rails enthusiast. I'm passionate about formalized SDL processes, and clean, well-tested code. Having worked on the monolith that is the Words With Friends backend service at Zynga, I've architected, developed and deployed features that have been used by millions of concurrent users. I'm a huge supporter of University of Toronto, and an Arbor Award recipient. I guest lecture when I can, mentor students through the Alumni Mentorship program, and volunteer at numerous interview prep workshops, panels, and networking events for students.

Greg is presently focused on web applications built using Ruby on Rails, VueJS, Webpack, and JavaScript. He is also experienced with HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, responsive design practices, and visualizing large data sets using SVG, Canvas, and major web mapping frameworks. He is also fluent with RESTful and GraphQL API design, Django, Rails, Node, and some WordPress experience. Additional programming experience with iOS/Objective-C for iPhone, Flash/ActionScript3, and object-oriented design practices. Familiar with agile software development and SCRUM workflow; experienced with providing estimates. Current side projects include EpoxyJS (data binding extension for Backbone), ConstellationJS (a grid-based geometry toolkit), and the HTML5/Django-based Lassie Constellation admin system.

I have woven application development into my entire career, from time in the U.S. Army and U.S. Government to stints with the Big Four, the world's largest cloud services provider, and smaller startups. I have started my own company – twice – once providing consulting services and most recently with WorkFone, a software as a service startup that provided virtual digital identities to government clients. I love to build in public with Go and all things serverless!

Founder of WAYV Digital, providing business strategy and technology solutions for impact-driven companies to help them scale up, become sustainable and spread their impact around the world. Currently working with companies across 5 continents in the areas of education, disability care, healthcare and sustainable e-commerce. A dynamic leader with experience across both technical and managerial roles. Extensive experience in client and stakeholder engagement, combined with an expertise in solution consultancy across multiple technology platforms ensures successful product delivery time after time. Key competencies: • Technical consultancy and delivery- Kentico, Sitefinity, Sitecore, Drupal, WordPress, AWS, Azure • Solution Architecture (cloud, web, apps) • Product management • Agile delivery as Professional Scrum Master • Team management and leadership • Technical Project management and direction • Full stack web development (JS - React, Angular; Python; PHP) Dedicated to building communities to tackle the UN Sustainable Development Goals and passionate about helping those who wish to change the world!

Marko is a Solutions Engineer for Yugabyte Cloud, he works with Yugabyte cloud customers to successfully build high throughput applications using the Yugabyte Cloud database.

Taylor is a Solutions Engineer who leads the new Yugabyte Cloud sales engineering effort helping small and large companies alike modernize their legacy databases. He has a strong passion for distributed databases having worked with them for most of his career.

I’m a developer advocate working with GraphCMS to create content that helps remove friction and educate around the GraphQL space. I create content written in the blog here and also in educational videos supporting the written content. I’m a second career dev, that reskilled from a VBA analyst developer role into web development. I’m a massive fan of the Jamstack I have a wealth of knowledge working with Gatsby and am spending a lot of time familiarising myself with Svelte and SvelteKit.

Relay team @Facebook. Software engineer with full-stack experience working across product & UI design, front-end development, and systems engineering.

Data Science, React and GraphQL enthusiast. Python, JS developer turned Technical Writer. Community builder and aspiring Developer Advocate.

Dominik is a Frontend Engineer, React-Query maintainer and Tech Lead at Adverity (https://adverity.com), who blogs about all things React and TypeScript (https://tkdodo.eu/blog/).

JavaScript, React, GraphQL engineer, and Open Source maintainer for urql, styled-components, and several experimental libraries. Software Engineer at Stellate building GraphQL infrastructure.

Founder and CEO, GraphCMS

CTO and co-founder of Fauna.

Sam is the cofounder/CTO at Oso working on making security more accessible for developers. Sam previously got a PhD in Cryptography and was a contributor to TLS 1.3

Author of RescriptRelay and host of RelayMeetup.com. Partner at Arizon, a Swedish IT-consultancy and startup incubator. Loving GraphQL, Relay and ReScript.

Alex is an experienced marketer and screenwriter with over 10 years of experience. A natural storyteller, Alex spends her free time writing novels and screenplays and is driven through a constant need to be constantly learning professionally and personally. Originally from Texas, she has lived in New York City, and now Berlin, Germany.

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.

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.

I'm Sabin Adams, and I've been working in web development for about ten years now. I love solving problems and making tools that make developers' lives easier, and currently, I work as a developer advocate for Prisma. Teaching, speaking, and writing about web development is my passion!

Cody is a software engineer consultant and developer relations engineer with a passion for learning and sharing technology. He teaches a university web development course and loves interacting with developers of all experience levels.

Raman is a software developer at Shopify focusing on Frontend development. He is passionate about all things GraphQL and getting into their guts to understand why they do what they do. Having gone from fixing bugs on his first-ever teams GraphQL server to introducing it to his previous org he’s really trying to see it all, especially now at Shopify.

Kellen Mace works on the Developer Relations team at WP Engine. He and his team produce content on how to build modern JavaScript apps powered by headless WordPress backends at [developers.wpengine.com](http://developers.wpengine.com/). He is a contributor to WPGraphQL and the creator of the WPGraphQL for Gravity Forms plugin. He has been building and launching production headless WordPress applications for a number of years, and loves teaching others how to do the same.

Pawel Sawicki is a freelance consultant and lecturer with a focus on distributed systems, and related areas such as software security and software architecture, especially in the context of mobile applications. On this way he discovered React and React Native several years ago and used them in a variety of professional projects for leading German companies, from small startups to large corporations. Pawel always strives to share the practical knowledge he has acquired in a didactically valuable way for the benefit of his clients and students.

Abdelrhman Adel is an Amsterdam-based Solution Architect at Rangle.io, helping clients build better software experiences using technologies such as Angular, React, and Typescript. Once a Petroleum Engineer, he switched career paths to follow his passion for technology and improving user experiences. When he’s not working, you can find him gaming or binge-watching a new TV series.

GraphQL, React, Serverless, and Jamstack advocate. Mostly creating videos and content on this, and more.

Self-taught since 13 yo, I am passionate about web development, more recently, especially about the JavaScript and GraphQL ecosystems. Strong of more than 9 years of professional experience in companies such as Dashlane, including more than 3 years in a Technical leadership position at Algolia, and early-stage companies; I also talked at many international conferences, including the well-known React Europe 2019 conference and wrote many reference articles on TypeScript, React, and GraphQL relayed by recognized international newsletters such as GraphQL Weekly and TypeScript Weekly. After working as a freelance providing coaching, training, and consulting services, I joined The Guild to work full-time on the GraphQL ecosystem.

Laurin Quast is a developer that started exploring GraphQL, by leading the private and later public API development at a start-up. Realizing that there are still many unsolved problems and challenges within the space, he started contributing to famous JavaScript libraries, such as GraphQL Code Generator and GraphQL Tools. Diving deeper and deeper, the transition into becoming a full-time open-source developer at The Guild was inevitable.

Ankita has over 10 years of Software development experience that started with helping small businesses develop apps. Currently she is taking a break and enjoying exploring more entrepreneurial opportunities. Previously, she is a Senior Engineering Manager at WealthSimple, leading teams and helping define the future of FinTech in Canada. She also worked as a Tech Lead, Solution Architect, and Lead developer at companies such as Loblaw Digital, Rangle.io, and IBM Canada. Ankita has architected and scaled many web and mobile apps for clients using React, GraphQL, React Native and Next.js. She loves public speaking and has spoken at several conferences worldwide, allowing her to pursue her passion for travel. Ankita is also an instructor on Udemy and ZeroToMastery and loves sharing content online.

Kevin is currently leading the GraphQL engineering team at Solo.io. Formerly a big data infra admin at HubSpot, Kevin is passionate about the infrastructure space and giving to the community, with contributions to many open source projects such as Envoy, Flagger, and Gloo. Kevin enjoys working with customers and community users on real problems facing them today, and is excited to help bring organizations to Envoy, Istio, and a more modern, cloud-native, tech stack.

Lucas is a Solutions Architect at Apollo Graph, working with companies on GraphQL implementations at scale. Prior to his time at Apollo Graph he worked at Twitch, helping game developers bring new experiences to the site. When not working, he spends his time gaming and exploring NYC.

Thomas is a software engineer in the GraphQL team at Neo4j where he usually works with Javascript, Typescript, Cypher, and of course GraphQL. Prior to joining the GraphQL team, Thomas was part of the team who builds Neo4j’s graph visualization product, Bloom. Whenever he closes the laptop for the day he makes sure to get out in nature, do all kinds of sports and read a good book.

Sai Ekbote is a Software Engineer currently leading engineering for GraphQL at Solo.io. He has contributed to multiple open source projects such as Istio, Envoy and Flagger.

Nils Hartmann is a freelance software architect, developer and trainer from Hamburg. He mainly works with Java, JavaScript/TypeScript and React.

Founder & CEO at Grafbase

Tim Suchanek is a software engineer and entrepreneur who specializes in GraphQL. He is the author of the GraphQL Playground, and the founder of Stellate, a GraphQL edge caching solution.