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Sasha Solomon
Twitter, USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: GraphQL Working Group
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.

Anjana Vakil
, USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: UX and the Design/Dev Overlap
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!

Maggie Appleton
Ought, UK
Talk: Panel Discussion: UX and the Design/Dev Overlap
Maggie is a designer-developer-anthropologist-hybrid at egghead.io. She spends her time designing visual metaphors for invisible programming concepts, helping developers explain their wildly abstract thoughts, and overanalysing the JavaScript community’s strange cultural beliefs. She's also a digital gardening enthusiast and a Marmite lover.

Tanmai Gopal
Hasura, India
Talk: Panel Discussion: Authorization
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 Singh
Guild.host, UK, Canada
Talk: Panel Discussion: Authorization
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.
Alexander Varwijk
Open Social, The Netherlands
Talk: Panel Discussion: GraphQL for non-JS Languages
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.

Marcin Gebala
Saleor, Poland
Talk: Panel Discussion: GraphQL for non-JS Languages
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.

Alexandra Buckalew
GraphCMS, Germany
Talk: Panel Discussion: The Future of GraphQL in the Enterprise (by GraphCMS)
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.

Eduardo San Martin Morote
Vue.js Core Team, France
Talk: Panel discussion: State Management
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.

Vanessa Otto
Zavvy GmbH, Germany
Talk: Panel discussion: State Management
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 Rivera
CircleCI, USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: Mono-repo Vs. Multi-repo Vs. Hybrid
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 Ng
Microsoft, Germany
Talk: Panel Discussion: Mono-repo Vs. Multi-repo Vs. Hybrid
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 Mwila
SUSE, South Africa
Talk: Panel Discussion: Mono-repo Vs. Multi-repo Vs. Hybrid
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.

Kent C. Dodds
Epic React, USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: Testing
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.

Scott Gerlach
StackHawk, USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: Application Security Testing
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 Verma
Global Board of Directors - OWASP, India
Talk: Panel Discussion: Application Security Testing
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
Snyk, Israel
Talk: Panel Discussion: Application Security Testing
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
OWASP London Chapter Leader, UK
Talk: Panel Discussion: Application Security Testing
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
Epic React, USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: Future of Web Testing
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.

Nancy Du
Rangle.io, Canada
Talk: Panel Discussion: Future of Web Testing
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
Testim, USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: Future of Web Testing
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
Independent Testing Consultant, Israel
Talk: Panel Discussion: Future of Web Testing
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.

John Papa
Microsoft, USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: Code Quality
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
Applitools, USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: Code Quality
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.

Anna Backs
Codecentric, Germany
Talk: Panel Discussion: Code Quality
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.

Shawn Swyx Wang
Temporal, Singapore
Talk: Panel Discussion: Next Gen Build Tools
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.

Evan You
Vue.js & Vite Creator, USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: Next Gen Build Tools
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.

Sharone Zitzman
RTFM Please, Israel
Talk: Panel Discussion: Next Gen Build Tools
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.

Hemanth HM
PayPal, USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: The Future of JavaScript
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.

Jordan Harband
Coinbase, USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: The Future of JavaScript
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 Johnson-Pint
Microsoft, USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: The Future of JavaScript
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.

Kent C. Dodds
Epic React, USA
Talk: Fire-Side Chat with Kent C. Dodds
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 Piros
Cloudinary, UK
Talk: Panel Discussion: Get to Know: Web Performance and Core Web Vitals
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 Portis
Cloudinary, USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: Get to Know: Web Performance and Core Web Vitals
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.

Houssein Djirdeh
Google, USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: Get to Know: Web Performance and Core Web Vitals
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.

Andrei Calazans
G2i, Brazil
Talk: Panel Discussion: The Leland Prediction
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.