2024 SPEAKERS

Patty is a Venezuelan living in Scotland. She has +20 years of experience in the tech industry and a background education in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. She is a Technical Director at Charles River Laboratories. In her free time, Patty is a dedicated mentor and educator, leading a Code Club for 10-15 year-olds at her local school. Additionally, she's an organiser at Google Developers Group Glasgow, serves as an Ambassador for Google's Women Techmakers, and is recognised as a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and a Google Cloud Champion Innovator. She is very passionate about AI and loves sharing her knowledge and expertise with others, frequently giving talks and technical workshops on various technologies and topics related to it, especially Web Machine Learning.

Isaac made npm, and was the second BDFL of the Node.js project. Despite his typical username, there is only one of him.

I am a software manager and an architect. I have a decade of software engineering experience in various technologies : Server side, big data, Mobile, web technologies and security. On the technological aspect, I am focusing on Node.js, and have a deep knowledge in Node.js server architecture and Node.js performance optimisations.

I'm a Node.js core collaborator, OpenJS Foundation and Node.js performance team member. I have a Master's in Computer Science from Fordham University, and I'm currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Noonlight.

Joyee currently works on the compilers team at Igalia. She is a member of the Node.js Technical Committee and a V8 committer.

Matteo is the Co-Founder and CTO of Platformatic.dev. 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.

Robin Bender Ginn is the Executive Director of the OpenJS Foundation. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, OpenJS is the neutral home to grow and sustain the JavaScript and web ecosystem with 35 projects including Appium, Electron, Jest, jQuery, Node.js and webpack. Previously, Robin led major initiatives at Microsoft to advance open source technologies, community development, and open standards.

James is a System Engineer on the Cloudflare Workers team, a core contributor to Node.js, a member of Node.js Technical Steering Committee, and the primary implementer of HTTP/2, QUIC, and HTTP/3 in Node.js.

Ryan is a software engineer with a background in mathematics. He studied at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Rochester before beginning his professional journey. In 2009, he created Node.js. He has had the opportunity to work in various areas of software engineering, from server infrastructure to machine learning research. He currently works as co-founder and CEO of Deno Land Inc. He is a resident of Brooklyn, New York.

Full-stack developer and technology researcher. Leads the Security Lab at MetaMask working on LavaMoat and Endo. Started using Node.js at v0.8 and never stopped. Enjoys innovating and teaching security, diagnostics and maintainability. One of the oldest members of meet.js Poland community - both as a speaker and organizer. @naugtur https://naugtur.pl

Aaron is a backend and lower level systems developer who is on Node.js' Web Infrastructure Team.

My background includes 9 years experience in Web development and currently venturing into Machine Learning, I am deeply passionate about empowering and inspiring others, which is why I proudly serve as a Women Techmaker Ambassador, dedicated to sharing my knowledge and experiences with the community and fostering diversity in the tech industry.

Bryan English is a Node.js, Rust, and C++ developer, currently working at Datadog on it's Node.js and C++ APM libraries. He's also a Node.js core collaborator and releaser, and has been working with Node.js since its inception and with its internals since 2015. Bryan co-authored _Multithreaded JavaScript_, an O'Reilly book.

Claudio Wunder is a Platform Engineer at HubSpot, maintaining HubSpot's Usage & Experimentation Platform. Claudio is also a collaborator at the Node.js project, mostly doing Web & Infra work, and also a member of the Cross Project Council at the OpenJS Foundation

With a clear focus on open-source solutions, Cody is deeply committed to shaping technology for the greater good. Since embarking on the international speaking circuit in 2022, Cody has championed the benefits of full-stack and decentralized applications, underscoring the significance of open-source technologies. Through his work, presentations, and teaching at the university, he constantly seeks ways to use technology as a tool for fostering social interactions and driving positive societal change.

David Mark Clements is the Platform Principal Architect of Pear Runtime by Holepunch. Writing JavaScript since '96, into Node.js from 0.8 (2012). Author, OSS Creator, Teacher, Consultant, Speaker helping to shape the ecosystem. Node Cookbook original and OpenJS Node.js Certifications lead. Driving innovation in the exciting peer-to-peer space, marking a new chapter in decentralized computing: pears.com.

Marco is a Senior DX Engineer at HeroDevs. Active contributor and releaser to the Node.js project. Marco is an renowed international speaker.

Michael Dawson is an active contributor to the Node.js project and chair of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee(TSC). He contributes to a broad range of community efforts including platform support, build infrastructure, N-API, Release, as well as tools to help the community achieve quality with speed (ex: ci jobs, benchmarking and code coverage reporting). As the Node.js lead for Red Hat and IBM , he works with Red Hat's and IBM's internal teams to plan and facilitate their contributions to Node.js and v8 within the Node and Google communities.Past experience includes building IBM's Java runtime, building and operating client facing e-commerce applications, building PKI and symmetric based crypto solutions as well as a number of varied consulting engagements. In his spare time, he uses Node.js to automate his home and life for fun.

Mikola Lysenko is a seasoned JavaScript programmer at the forefront of applying generative AI to web security. Currently at Socket Inc., he's revolutionizing supply chain security through innovative AI techniques. Mikola's expertise spans the full spectrum of web technologies, from low-level graphics programming to high-performance server-side applications. He previously served as Chief Scientist at Codemao, where he developed a multiplayer web-based voxel game engine. His contributions to the web development community include popular open-source projects like ndarray and regl, as well as influential blog posts on efficient rendering techniques for web-based games. Mikola's unique background in both cutting-edge AI applications and core web technologies positions him as a leading voice in the evolving landscape of generative AI for web security and beyond.

Node.js TSC Member, Principal Engineer at Platformatic, Polyglot Developer. RPG and LARP addicted and nerd on lot more. Surrounded by lovely chubby cats.

Thomas has contributed to dozens of enterprise Node.js services and has worked for a company dedicated to securing Node.js. He has spoken at several conferences on Node.js and JavaScript, published a book on microservices, and is an organizer of NodeSchool SF.

Alex has been a software engineer for 18 years and has worked on the distributed web since 2018. He loves open source and has contributed to many projects and even published some popular modules too.

Geoffrey Booth builds web apps at Disney and serves on the Node.js Technical Steering Committee. He lives in Los Angeles and has worked on a few dozen movies and TV shows.

Graduated in Forensic sciences at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Co-founder and software engineer at Zakodium, a company dedicated to the development of scientific software using JavaScript and Node.js. Active contributor and member of the Technical Steering Committee of Node.js.

With a background in organic chemistry and structural analysis I'm Interested in javascript and chemical information for over 15 years and I'm strongly involved in the development of open-source tools accessible directly from the web browser. The modular approach that was implemented allows to solve large diversity of problems like: - cell image analysis - wikipedia structure explorer (http://www.cheminfo.org/wikipedia) - NMR spectra prediction (https://www.nmrdb.org) - NMR spectra assignment (https://www.nmrium.org) - molecular formula and isotopic distribution (https://www.chemcalc.org) - complex mass spectra analysis (https://www.polycalc.org) - counterfeit analysis based on spectra or images - ... The same tools used in production and research are also applicable for teaching from the undergraduate level to the doctoral level. All those developments yielded to numerous publications: https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=FaGwMp4AAAAJ&hl=en

Fortune is a backend engineer who is passionate about accessibility and open source. He works at Red Hat and is actively contributing to an open-source project named Backstage, a framework for building developer portals. He fell in love with JavaScript and got introduced to Node.js at v0.8 and never stopped learning. He enjoys researching, teaching, and empowering others, in their continuous improvement journey.

Ethan Arrowood lives in Breckenridge, CO with his dog, Lincoln. He works for HarperDB as a senior software engineer. Additionally, he is a Node.js contributor that helped develop Fastify, Undici, and Fetch. Aside from programming, Ethan is an avid adventurer spending a lot of time enjoying the outdoors by running, climbing, skiing, or hiking up any mountain he can!

Jonathan Frere is a software developer working mainly on web development projects. His favourite topics include Typescript, testing, and other ways of writing and maintaining software that works, works right, and works fast.

Chris cofounded Couchbase and created Couchbase Mobile, early local-first databases. Today Chris is building Fireproof, which aims to be ten times easier than the next easiest database, with unparalleled data integrity.

Luke is a Staff Software Engineer at vlt and has previously worked at GitHub on the npm team. He is also a Node.js contributor and has over a decade of open source JavaScript experience. He lives in the sunny Phoenix area of Arizona where he enjoys riding bikes, photography, drinking coffee, and hacking on the occasional useless side project.

JavaScript expert and Node.js TSC member who has worked at some of the biggest names in tech, including Google, GitHub and is now a co-founder at vlt.sh. He is an active contributor to open source software with a particular interest in empowering the people behind it.

With a passion for reshaping processes and being able to produce more by doing less, Jean works mainly as a domain-specific reference on the JavaScript/Node.js ecosystem, leading platform and transversal teams. When he is not directly building features for the business, Jean finds solutions to improve the global developer experience by enhancing the collaboration between teams, bringing suggestions on how to succeed together, bring more efficiency to all teams and focus on the technical stack. Outside of the company work Jean spend a good amount of time to teach to Computer Science students, present to both in-company guilds and meetups and being involved on Open-Source projects.

I have a deep passion for software architecture and I'm committed to bridging the gap between complex software design and human factors. From embedded to cloud, passing through industrial automation—if it can be programmed, I want to know more.