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2024 Speakers
MARK DALGLEISH
Mark Dalgleish works on the Remix team as a Staff Front End Developer at Shopify. He’s the co-creator of CSS Modules, the creator of Playroom, and maintainer of Vanilla Extract. Mark has been heavily involved with the local JavaScript community as the lead organiser of MelbJS for over a decade.
BEN LESH
Ben Lesh has been the lead developer of RxJS for the past 9 years. He's also working on standarding Observables for the web platform with the WHATWG and W3C, as well as being directly involved with the Signals proposal for the TC39. His 20+ year career spans working at companies such as Netflix and Google, and he's currently working on real-time data visualization tooling for a financial tech firm.
MINKO GECHEV
Minko Gechev is the product and DevRel lead for Angular at Google. For the past 14 years, he has been building open source tools for static analysis, libraries, and frameworks. His contributions were recognized with awards from the President of the Republic of Bulgaria. Before joining Google, he was a co-founder and CTO at the EdTech company Rhyme.com, which in 2019 was acquired by Coursera.
MALTE UBL
Malte Ubl is the CTO of Vercel, where he leads the development and delivery of the company’s suite of tools and features to enable developers to create at the moment of inspiration. Prior to joining Vercel, Malte was the Principal Engineer for Google Search Rendering and Engineering Director for Google’s Search on Laptops, Tablets, and Desktop. Malte has also created the frontend infrastructure for a number of Google Web Apps and the web at large. He is also the founder and curator of JSConf EU.
lea verou
Lea teaches HCI & web programming and researches how to make web programming easier at MIT. She is a bestselling technical author and experienced speaker. She is passionate about open web standards, and is an elected W3C TAG member and a longtime CSS Working Group Invited Expert. Lea has started several popular open source projects and web applications, such as Prism, and Awesomplete.
JAMES Q QUICK
James is a JS Developer, Keynote Speaker, and Content Creator whose passion for teaching has impacted hundreds of thousands of developers across the world. With 10+ years of Software Development and Developer Advocacy experience, he brings deep technical knowledge to impact a broad audience of developers. In his spare time, he runs a thriving Discord community called Learn Build Teach, plays co-ed soccer with his wife, and can solve a Rubik's cube in under a minute.
BEN HALPERN
Ben has been working in the tech industry since 2011. He started his own company, Ben's Web, then joined onehackmind as the User Acquisition Lead, helping to build the next big thing in social media. In 2013, he joined Argo as Lead Software Developer/CTO. In 2017, he co-founded Forem and DEV. Since then, Dev.to has become one of the most popular places for developers to write about engineering, programming languages, and everyday life.
JESSICA SACHS
Jess led the development of Cypress Component Testing. She began her career as a Manual QA tester for mobile and transitioned into Software Development in 2014. She’s passionate about the JavaScript Open Source Ecosystem, and especially bundlers, design systems, and test runners. She currently works at Ionic, with a focus on Capacitor and Portals (micro-frontends for mobile).
DAVID FLANAGAN
Founder of the Rawkode Academy, open source contributor, and loving husband to my wife, father of two amazing kids, and a plethora of animals. David has been developing software professionally for nearly 20 years, starting with embedded systems written in C back in 2004, and has spent that entire time learning the paradigms of different programming languages, including C++, PHP, Java, and Haskell - though more recently preferring to work with Go, Rust, and Pony.
MARC BACKES
Marc currently serves as the Tech Lead at Talkevent Software, a company headquartered in Germany specializing in B2B communication solutions. With extensive experience in full-stack development, Marc has a particular passion for Vue.js. Additionally, he is a co-organizer of BELvue, a prominent Vue.js community in Belgium. Outside of his professional commitments, Marc enjoys piloting small aircraft.
STOYAN
STEFANOV
Stoyan has recently joined Etsy as a web performance consultant (formerly at Facebook, WebPageTest and Yahoo!). He has a storied history as an accomplished author, contributor, and custodian of the well-known and respected Planet Performance calendar. He habitually speaks about web development topics at conferences and on his blog at phpied.com. Stoyan is also the creator of the smush.it image optimization tool, YUI contributor and was the architect of Yahoo's performance optimization tool YSlow 2.0.
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ALEX MOULINNEUF
Alex is an independent Creative Developer with a passion for crafting 3D web experiences, specializing in JavaScript, his language of choice. He has created a fully JavaScript-based 3D Mario Kart game using Three.js. Adopting a Build In Public strategy, this project has catapulted his career to unprecedented heights, as it went viral. In his spare time, Alex explores new web technologies and refines his development skills. He also has a keen interest in online racing through Sim Racing.
ELEANOR
MCHUGH
Ellie is cofounder of InIdSol, a London-based consultancy specialising in digital identity, privacy, and secure communications. Her previous adventures have ranged from mission-critical cockpit avionics and broadcast automation networks to DNS and social media. Best known for her talks on the more eclectic uses of Ruby and Go, in recent years Ellie's developed a fascination with WebSockets that's drawn her into the world of vanilla JavaScript and peer-to-peer web applications.
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MAUD NALPAS
Maud is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google Chrome. She's been a full-stack developer and UX designer across monster legacy codebases and fresh startup repos. As a web lover and security/privacy advocate, Maud explores technologies that transform people's experience on the web while keeping their data private. Maud lives in Paris, France and Berlin, Germany.
BASSEL
GHANDOUR
Originally a Psychology major, he transitioned into technology at École 42 Paris, evolving from a Data Engineer at Kapten (now FreeNow) to a Fullstack Software Engineer at Contentsquare since 2020. His journey blends an understanding of human behavior with technical skills, driving innovations in user experience.
RUBY JANE
CABAGNOT
Ruby Jane Cabagnot, a proficient web developer, speaker, and co-author of Practical Enterprise React, is an active figure in the tech world. Passionate about programming languages like TypeScript, C#, and React, RJ's ongoing learning fuels her drive for innovation and boundary-pushing. She is dedicated to educating and promoting women in technology.
