#panel discussions

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Mobile Developer Advocate at Apollo

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.

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.

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

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.

Founder and CEO, GraphCMS

CTO and co-founder of Fauna.

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.

Mobile Developer Advocate at Apollo

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/).

Web & GraphQL Engineer, creator of the GraphQL client urql.

Eduardo is a Frontend Nerd who works on the Vue.js Core Team, with a particular focus on its official Router. He's very invested in Open Source, and loves developing maintainable and tested front end architectures.

The optimist web designer/developer. Vue.js core team. Author of Vuex ORM. Director at Global Brain.

Vanessa is a Web Developer. She has an M.Sc in Media Informatics with a focus on Human-Computer-Interaction. Vanessa is the Lead Frontend Developer at Zavvy. She is a co-host of the podcasts expect(Exception), Working Draft, and Ausbaufähig. Vanessa is a Chapter Leader of the Front-end Foxes helping women with their first coding and speaking experiences. She was a member of the JS Kongress Program Committee.

Angel started his career as an US Air Force Space Systems Operations specialist in Cape Canaveral AF Station where he realized his passion for technology and software development. He has extensive experience in the private, public and military sectors and his technical experience includes military/space lift operations, technical writing, software development, SRE/DevOPs engineering. He also has a wealth of experience in defense and federal sectors such as contracting, information systems security and management. You can usually find him speaking at or organizing local tech meetups and hackathons where he enjoys engaging with developers.

Julie is an Engineer at Microsoft focussing on the Azure Customer Experience who refuses to give up her mac for Windows. Previously she was an Enterprise Architect at Allianz Germany as they started their cloud journey in 2016 that included full CI/CD with Jenkins, single page apps and containers. When she's not conducting architecture design and CI/CD reviews with Azure customers or building POCs you can find her surviving lockdown by YouTubing about real world engineering or jogging and rock-climbing.

Lukonde is a Principal Technical Evangelist at SUSE and is an AWS Container Hero. He specializes in cloud and DevOps engineering and cloud-native technologies. He is passionate about sharing knowledge through various mediums and engaging with the developer community at large.

Nrwl.io co-founder, ex-Googler, ex-Angular core team member. Work on dev tools for TS/JS. Nx and Nx Cloud architect.

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.

Iris is a front end developer with a passion for user experience and design, currently building products at Spotify. She’s also engaged in the Swedish meetup scene where she co-organises a ReasonML meetup.

Tomasz is a Frontend Engineer at Stedi. Tech speaker, egghead.io instructor, AWS Certified. His interests include React, AWS, testing, VR and making cheesiest jokes known to mankind.

Sophie is a software developer at Donut where she champions testing and accessibility. And ensures there's a steady supply of office donuts.

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.

Vandana is Security Solutions Architect at IBM India Software Labs. She is a member of the OWASP Global Board of Directors. She has experience ranging from Application Security to Infrastructure and now dealing with Product Security. She also works in various communities towards diversity initiatives InfosecGirls & WoSec. She has been Keynote speaker / Speaker / Trainer at various public events including Global OWASP AppSec events to BlackHat events to regional events like BSides events in India. Vandana is a member of the Black Hat Asia Review Board as well as multiple other conferences including Grace Hopper India, OWASP AppSec USA to name a few. She is also one of the organiser of BSides Delhi. She has been the recipient of multiple prestigious awards like Cyber Security Woman of the Year Award 2020 by Cyber Sec Awards, Application Security Influencer 2020 by Whitesource, Global cybersecurity influencer among IFSEC Global's "Top Influencers inSecurity and Fire" Category for 2019, Cybersecurity Women of the year award by Women Cyberjutsu Society in the Category “Secure Coder”. She has also been listed as one of the top women leaders in this field of technology and cybersecurity in India by Instasafe.

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.

Sam Stepanyan is an OWASP London Chapter Leader and an Independent Application Security Consultant with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry with a background in software engineering and web application development. Sam has worked for various financial services institutions in the City of London specialising in Application Security consulting, Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), developer training, source code reviews and vulnerability management. He is also a Subject Matter Expert in Web Application Firewalls (WAF). Sam holds a Master’s degree in Software Engineering and a CISSP certification.

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.

Jest core contributor and creator & maintainer of jest-junit. Jason is an engineer and technical product manager at Spotify where he focuses on web infrastructure, CI/CD, and test automation.

Nancy is a Solutions Architect working at Rangle.io in Toronto, Canada. She is passionate about products, quality and outcome driven development. In her free time she contributes to the open source community for testing tools and mentors other women who are starting their careers in tech.

Oren Rubin is the founder and CEO of Testim, an AI-based test automation platform that speeds the authoring of resilient end-to-end tests. Oren has over 22 years of experience in the software industry, building mostly test-related products for developers at IBM, Wix, Cadence, Applitools, and Testim.io. In addition to being a busy entrepreneur, Oren is a community activist and the co-organizer of the Selenium-Israel meetup and the Israeli Google Developer Group meetup. He has taught at Technion University and mentored at the Google Launchpad Accelerator.

Yoni Goldberg is an independent consultant who works with 500 fortune corporates and garage startups on polishing their JS & Node.js applications. He's the author of Node's largest best practices collection (link below). More than any other topic he is fascinated by and aims to master the art of testing. At his spare time, he likes to write in his blog and debug production application using console.log.

TC39 delegate, working on JavaScript feature proposals. Hemanth is a FOSS philosopher and MTS at PayPal Inc. Google Developer Expert for Web && Payments. DuckDuckGo community leader. Member of Node.js Foundation. Google Launchpad Accelerator mentor.

TC39 team member and an editor of the specification from 2018-2021. Jordan has been heavily involved in the node community for as many years, and has gradually created (but mostly inherited or been gifted) a decent number of open source projects. His focus is JavaScript, standards, frontend web development, full stack (frontend + backend + db) architecture design, and overall object oriented code optimization.

Maggie is an open-source community advocate who works on the Azure SDK team at Microsoft to ensure every developer on every platform has an incredible experience with the cloud. JavaScript is her first love, especially date, and time problems. She contributes her expertise to ECMA TC39 and Moment.js.

Rick is a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg working on JavaScript tooling and infrastructure, and a delegate for TC39, currently thinking about immutability in JavaScript!

Swyx is passionate about Developer Tooling and Developer Communities. He currently works as Head of Developer Experience at Temporal.io and recently published the Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior developer careers. In his free time he teaches React, TypeScript, Storybook and Node.js CLI's at Egghead.io, and helps run the Svelte Society community of meetups.

Fred is a Software Engineer living and working in San Francisco, CA. He's building snowpack & skypackjs. Fred also writes about JavaScript in his blog.

Evan is an independent software developer and the creator of the open source JavaScript framework Vue.js. Most of his work is open source and publicly available on GitHub. You can follow Evan on Twitter where he mostly tweets about Vue and frontend technologies.

I'm a marketing technologist and open source community builder, who likes to work with engineering teams that are building products that developers love. Having built both the DevOps Israel and Cloud Native Israelcommunities from the ground up, today I spend my time finding the places where technology and people intersect and ensuring that this is an excellent experience. You can find my talks, articles, and employment experience at rtfmplease.dev.

John is a professional Web and Mobile Developer, avid OSS and community advocate, dedicated father and husband. He is currently a Developer Advocate for Microsoft and has formerly worked for Disney on several web and mobile applications that you may have used. John is the author of various OSS such as Peacock, the Angular Style Guide, and many popular courses. You can listen to him on the popular weekly podcast Real Talk JavaScript.

Angie Jones is a Principal Developer Advocate who specializes in test automation strategies and techniques. She shares her wealth of knowledge by speaking and teaching at software conferences all over the world, writing tutorials and technical articles on angiejones.tech, and leading the online learning platform, Test Automation University. As a Master Inventor, Angie is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 25 patented inventions in the US and China. In her spare time, Angie volunteers with Black Girls Code to teach coding workshops to young girls in an effort to attract more women and minorities to tech.

Jest core contributor and creator & maintainer of jest-junit. Jason is an engineer and technical product manager at Spotify where he focuses on web infrastructure, CI/CD, and test automation.

Anna Backs is an APM consultant and software developer working for codecentric. When she is not outside with her dog or absorbed in the world of Shadowrun, she is usually found building some thing or another in JavaScript. She loves coffee, good stories and learning new things.

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.

Tamas is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and a Developer Experience Engineer. He has more than a decade of experience delivering technical training to large, prestigious organisations. He is passionate about unlocking the latest & greatest features of web development.

Eric lives and works in Bellingham, WA. He used to produce fine art prints for a living and do web standards as a hobby; in 2016 he flipped that script and now works as a Web Platform Advocate at Cloudinary.

Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify. I like jokes, karaoke, and mechanical keyboards!

After writing his first line of JavaScript, it only took Houssein three short years to become an accomplished developer, author, speaker, and advocate. He is an engineer on the Chrome and Web team at Google working on improving the open-source framework ecosystem. Houssein has given talks on progressive enhancement and building for the mobile user at dozens of conferences and events worldwide.

Tejas enjoys people, code, and talking about code to people. Having begun coding at age 8, today Tejas travels around the world, encouraging, educating and empowering developers in the web development community.

I'm a Software Developer with an emphasis on a JavaScript Stack(React, React Native, GraphQL, Relay, Apollo, Redux, Redux-Saga, and others). Over the past years, I've worked mostly with Front-End applications, but I have done Back-End work with GraphQL JS. Despite starting my career on the Web, I have been working with Mobile applications for quite some time. Due to working on cross-platform solutions like React Native, I have some experience writing Swift, Objective-C, Java, and C++. I cherish good communication and respect. I also have some of those cliche skills = ) Fast learner and a good communicator. Besides Software Development, I like writing, learning about emotions, and philosophy.

Self taught frontend developer from India who loves to tinker around with modern web technologies, College student & currently working at timeless.co