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Creator of EpicWeb.dev, EpicReact.Dev, TestingJavaScript.com

Sachin Malhotra is an engineer at Anthropic, where he works on the continuous-integration infrastructure that Anthropic's engineers build and ship on. Keeping CI healthy at a frontier AI lab used to mean a pager and a long queue of toil; today most of that day-to-day runs through a fleet of Claude agents that triage incidents, watch rollouts, review changes, and draft the work, while Sachin sets direction, checks their output, and makes the calls only a human should. He has spoken about agent-driven engineering at the Tech Crunch Disrupt 2026 and has taught hands-on sessions on working with Claude to thousands of engineers at enterprise companies. Previously, he lead machine learning infrastructure at Etsy and DNS systems at Microsoft.

Dominik is a tech lead on OpenAI’s Developer Experience team, focusing on bringing Codex and frontier agent capabilities to developers. Previously, he led Product & Design for Twilio’s Emerging Tech & Innovation team. Outside of work, he loves tinkering with cocktails, food, and photography.

AI Coding Expert and Educator

Jemima Abu is an award-winning product engineer, Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, and Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies. She is passionate about diversity in technology and accessibility in web development.

Kiriti Badam is co-founder and CTO at LevelUp Labs, where he helps companies turn AI into business results through engineering, strategy, and education. He has 12+ years of experience building production systems, from distributed infrastructure to machine learning platforms and AI products. Previously, he worked on the core Codex team at OpenAI across product development, agent behavior and reliability, and production infrastructure. Examples include the Codex Web launch, Slack integration, Code Review, and GPU capacity and fleet management. He co-created ChatGPT Sites and co-led its development and launch. Before OpenAI, he was a founding ML infrastructure engineer at Kumo.AI, where he helped build a multi-tenant platform training hundreds of models each day. Earlier, he built large-scale storage and data-processing infrastructure at Google, Databricks, and Samsung. He also writes and teaches practical courses on production AI systems, agent design, evaluation, and harness engineering.

Creator of Nx, the monorepo platform, and Polygraph, the meta-harness for max agent autonomy. A former member of the Angular core team at Google. Victor has spent 15+ years developing high-performance frameworks and build tools for large-scale JavaScript applications.

Cory is an author, a 12 time Microsoft MVP, and international speaker. He has trained over 10,000 software developers at conferences and businesses worldwide. Cory has authored over a dozen courses on JavaScript, React, C#, testing, and web development on Pluralsight and Dometrain. He shares software development tips daily on X as @housecor.

David is the founder of Stately.ai and creator of XState, the most popular open-source state machine & statecharts library. He's a longtime advocate for event-driven modeling and visual diagramming as the foundation for reliable UIs and, increasingly, AI agents. When he's not at a computer keyboard, he's at a piano keyboard.

I’m an AI Agent Developer who has been coding with AI for the past six years,starting from the early days of GitHub Copilot. As one of Copilot and Cursor’s earliest users, I now primarily work on building coding agents and run workshops across different domains and speak frequently on AI productivity, helping developers unlock the full potential of AI-powered tools. My expertise spans the full generative AI pipeline, from fine-tuning models and optimizing prompts to running rigorous evaluations and building scalable agents. Grounded in a strong background in test architecture, I design AI agents that balance complexity with reliability. I focus on constantly refining and optimizing these systems to push the boundaries of what modern AI software can achieve

I’m a co-founder of Signal Analytics, where I’m hands-on building an AI-native product and engineering team from scratch. Previously, I led data science and engineering teams at BCG, taking AI and data products from idea to production. I have a love-hate relationship with AI/AI coding, and I share many of my thoughts on this on my blog (andreagao.com) and in public talks.

James O'Reilly is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google, where he focuses on AI agent orchestration and multi-agent systems via Google Antigravity. Specializing in automated platform modernizations, James helps enterprise engineering teams safely migrate aging monoliths to highly optimized architectures. He loves building infrastructure that lets AI do the heavy lifting.

Eugene Sergueev is a Director of Engineering at Flo Health, where he leads cross-functional teams building large-scale consumer product experiences across content, search, personalization, moderation, and social features. He works at the intersection of product engineering, team effectiveness, and practical AI adoption. His current focus is making AI-powered development workflows measurable, reliable, governed, and production-ready — especially in environments where quality, privacy, and operational risk matter.

Maya is Lead Software Engineer in Salesforce, working extensively with JavaScript and frontend frameworks and based in Israel. She founded and is currently the organizer of the VueJS Israel Meetup Community, helping to create a strong playground for Vue.js lovers and like-minded developers. Maya is also a published author, international speaker and an open-source library maintainer of frontend and web projects. As a core maintainer of StorefrontUI framework for e-commerce, she focuses on delivering performant components and best practices to the community while believing a strong Vanilla JavaScript knowledge is necessary for being a good web developer.

Chris Munn, Solutions Engineer at Braintrust, works with agent-native companies to measure and improve agent quality at scale. He partners with product and engineering teams building and operating production agents, helping them design evaluation systems, understand agent behavior, and turn observability data into more reliable products.

Nathan is the EM of the Sharing squad at Grafana Labs and is based out of beautiful Monterey, California.

Jack is a Senior Software Engineer working on Agent Observability and Grafana Assistant. He's based out of Seattle, WA.

Staff Developer Evangelist at Twilio, Waterloo, ON Canada

I’m Preethi, a Senior Frontend and Design System Engineer with over five years of experience building scalable UIs, performance-optimized applications, and production-grade React design systems. Also a technical author at freeCodeCamp, CSS-Tricks, and DigitalOcean, where I simplify complex system design without losing technical depth. As a Co-Founder of the D for Design System community and Creator of the legooo React Design System, I focus on building intelligent frontend systems that work for both humans and AI.

Codex Ambassador, React Native contributor, CTO

Piotr Karwatka is a hacker, entrepreneur, and investor focused on enterprise software and healthtech. He co-founded Divante, Vue Storefront, Callstack, and Open Loyalty. One of the first investors in ElevenLabs. He currently leads Open Mercato, an AI-powered open-source ERP/CRM platform, and the investment boutique Catch The Tornado.

Riccardo Erra is a developer advocate at Figma. He joined Figma as their first developer advocate in EMEA. Before joining Figma he worked as a software engineer for 15 years with the last few years spent as a design system engineer. At Figma he's empowering engineers to make the most out of the various Figma's tools tailored to developers.

Kranthi Manchikanti is an AI engineering and solutions leader focused on taking AI systems from prototypes to production at enterprise scale. He has worked with global organizations on production AI architecture, developer platforms, agentic systems, and large-scale software modernization. He also runs The AI Runtime, a community and publication focused on production AI engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, and the systems behind reliable AI applications. Kranthi is also an NVIDIA Developer Champion and regularly brings together engineers and AI infrastructure teams through technical workshops, events, and conversations.

Tisha Chawla works at the Max-Planck-Institute for Software Systems in the Machine Teaching Group. Previously, she was a Software Engineer at Microsoft within Commerce & Ecosystems where she built agentic systems engineered to run reliably against production data. Her work centers on the structural foundations of agent infrastructure: durable state management, deterministic execution frameworks, and self-healing orchestration layers that scale beyond isolated demos. Alongside Susheem Koul, she is the co-creator of AgentPlane, an open-source infrastructure layer built for teams deploying production-grade agents. Tisha is a published researcher with peer-reviewed papers in applied machine learning across venues like APNET (SIGCOMM) and ASONAM. A frequent speaker on developer productivity and deterministic AI architectures, she recently presented at the AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 in San Francisco and regularly delivers deep-dive technical sessions to engineering teams across Microsoft.

Susheem Koul is a Software Engineer at Microsoft with 7+ years of experience in product development, currently focused on designing and building agentic systems. His work spans distributed systems, AI agents, software architecture, and the challenges of bringing AI-powered systems into production. He is particularly interested in the intersection of AI and distributed systems, exploring topics such as agent reliability, observability, token governance, and deterministic execution. He regularly speaks and writes about AI engineering, agentic systems, and software architecture. Susheem presented at the AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 in San Francisco and regularly delivers technical sessions to engineering audiences. Outside of work, he writes about the philosophy of learning, software architecture, and technology on his Substack.

Avindra Fernando is a Principal Architect with 13+ years of experience helping teams build scalable modern web apps. In 2021, he founded Taprobane Consulting to guide clients through architecture decisions, tech stack migrations, and AI-powered development and testing strategies. He also mentors teams, runs hands-on workshops, speaks at tech conferences, and helps companies improve quality, performance, and technical direction.

AI Architect @ Payoneer

Shreshth Goyal is a Software Engineer at Curefit who builds AI systems that actually run in production. He spends his days orchestrating agents, wiring up LLM pipelines, and making sure retrieval does not hallucinate at scale. He writes about AI tooling on dev.to and moderates the community so the comments stay useful. He has a soft spot for edge devices, an unhealthy obsession with equity backtesting, and firmly believes most AI demos would not last a day in production.

Claude Code Templates Creator, AI Tech Lead at Hedgineer.

I'm an infrastructure engineer at Perplexity, specializing in secure sandboxing, runtime state management, and engineering automation for autonomous AI agents. I designed Perplexity's "Search as Code" sandboxed environments, which allow agents to safely write and execute complex data-retrieval pipelines. Most recently, I pioneered the automated verification and shadow-testing frameworks used to safely migrate core search pathways from legacy Python to high-performance Rust -successfully deleting 50,000 lines of code under live production traffic with zero regressions.

Lorenzo Dal Col is the Vulkan and OpenGL Conformance Test Suite tech lead at Khronos and a software consultant specialising in 3D graphics. Over more than fifteen years he has built high-performance software and led engineering teams. He was product manager for ARM's Mali GPU developer tools and has architected real-time 3D engines for VR and AR. He works across Vulkan, OpenGL and Metal, mobile performance, and computer vision, and now builds development processes around AI agents. He is based in Italy and has spoken at GDC, Google I/O, and Nordic Game.

Hey! 👋 I'm Erik Hanchett, published author of Vue.js in Action (Manning) and the Ember.js Cookbook. For over a decade I've taught hundreds of thousands of developers how to ship better code, building Program With Erik into a 100,000+ subscriber YouTube channel along the way. I've keynoted frontend talks on stages across the globe, and I now bring that expertise to millions of builders as a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS.

I've been building digital products since I was 14, driven by a deep curiosity to turn ideas into tools that solve real problems. One of my first personal projects was an AI tutor I built to prepare for Greece's national exams. Using it daily helped me score in the top 0.1% nationwide without external instruction. I documented the journey in a YouTube video that's now been viewed over 70,000 times. I now work as a software engineer and DevRel at NOFire AI.

Eric Tech is a Vancouver-based creator and AI agency founder who teaches practical AI tools and app building on YouTube. His sessions focus on live demonstrations, useful workflows and an honest look at what works and where human review is needed.

A serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits, I have more than 25 years of experience building companies and leading technical teams across AI, IoT, networking, programming languages, compilers, and cybersecurity. I founded Array Networks, which later went public in Taiwan and China, and 629 Networks, which was acquired by Proofpoint. Throughout my career, I have also held executive leadership roles at several technology startups, including Array Networks, NebuAd, and Vidder.

Navya Agarwal is a technical expert and innovator specializing in AI-powered product development, developer tools, and accessibility infrastructure. She has spoken at leading international technology conferences and actively contributes to the W3C ARIA Working Group.

Hal is a Member of Technical Staff at Vapi, where he works on making it dead-simple for customers to build voice agents. Prior to Vapi, Hal was the Founding CTO of a NYC-based startup focused on providing AI-driven social content intelligence. Before that, he was a Staff Engineer at Braze, where he spent most of his 6 years on the Frontend Infrastructure & Experience team building foundational experiences for Braze's main dashboard. These include helping to build out the Beacon design library, migrating from Knockout.js + CoffeeScript to React + TypeScript, improving the performance of data tables by up to 20x, and more. Hal graduated in 2015 from MIT, where he did a double major in Economics and in Management Science.

Tech Lead and Senior Software Engineer with over 12 years of experience in Software Development. Bachelor's degree in Information Systems and Master's degree in Emerging Technologies in Education.

Lukasz Jazwa is CTO and co-founder of Tentaro, built for teams whose codebase knowledge lives in a few senior engineers' heads and whose AI agents rediscover the code from scratch on every task. Tentaro gives engineers and their AI agents real context of their own code, running on their own infrastructure. He leads AI tooling adoption in practice, with Claude Code, Cursor and agentic workflows, and he pays the AI bills he talks about. Based in Wrocław, Poland.

Daniil is a Senior Engineering Leader, currently leading engineering teams building the systems that train and deploy AI for the physical world. He previously operated distributed backend systems at hyperscale at Meta and led payments infrastructure at Teya, a UK fintech unicorn. An established speaker at industry events and conferences across Europe, he works at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, ML infrastructure, and engineering leadership.

Stefan Erschwendner is Managing Partner at Frontira, where he helps organisations turn domain knowledge and workflows into working software through Agentic Business Engineering. His focus is on moving coding agents beyond prototypes into real operations, with clear ownership, reliable execution and human oversight. Together with his father Gerhard, he initiated Lobster Lager, connecting AI assisted software development with brewing expertise and physical hardware.

Kseniia Korostelova is a Senior Engineering Manager at Aristocrat with over 10 years of experience building complex software systems and leading engineering teams. Her work focuses on AI-enabled engineering at enterprise scale: how teams integrate AI into real delivery workflows, measure its impact, and build the controls, context, and human decision points needed to use it responsibly in production. Drawing on hands-on experience with large-scale platform modernisation and AI-assisted software delivery, Kseniia speaks about engineering leadership, AI productivity, trust, and the changing shape of software engineering.

Founding Engineering Lead | Software Architect & CTO | AI Infrastructure | Agentic Systems

Elliot Gardiner is the founder of Code Telemetry, an observability platform for AI coding workflows. He brings 13 years of software engineering experience, including principal SRE work and engineering roles at Mastercard and Kustomer. He now applies production observability practices to AI-assisted development, investigating how coding agents use tools, recover from failures, and validate changes. His focus is making the work between a prompt and a pull request observable, so teams can improve their development environments, catch missing validation earlier, and evaluate whether changes to their AI coding workflows actually help.

I'm a frequent traveler, too much coffee drinker, and a constant Reddit lurker. Since Diablo 1 piqued my interest in learning how to program, I've been on a mission to continuously grow through my career and personal experiences as a Software Engineer. I hope to share the things I learn with the world!

Paul Byrne is founder of Razoyo, a Dallas software company that ships custom apps with agents and senior engineers. Author of Adapt or Die: The Real AI Playbook. Co-host of Founders Firing On All Cylinders. Puts BMAD on live stages as the way to specify the work before agents build the wrong thing faster.

Alex Monahan is a developer advocate at MotherDuck. Previously, Alex served as a MotherDuck customer software engineer and a contributing blogger for DuckDB Labs. Before joining MotherDuck, Alex spent nine years at Intel, moving from industrial engineer to data scientist. In 2020 Alex discovered DuckDB, became a huge fan, and has been diving deeper into Duck-themed databases ever since. Beyond work, you’ll find Alex jumping on trampolines and going on adventures with his daughter Adeline and wife Christy.

Karan Bansal is Global Head of AI and Security Innovation at ArmorCode, with over 10 years in security. He previously led security and privacy at Urban Company (a $2.8B unicorn) and was a founding engineer at AvidSecure, acquired by Sophos in 2019. He authored "Claude Code's Most Underrated Feature: Hooks" and maintains the open-source claude-code-hooks toolkit (439 stars), a collection of security hooks for AI coding agents mapped to the OWASP LLM Top 10. He also built reddit-mcp-buddy (748 stars) and curates awesome-claude-skills (420 stars). He contributes to SGLang and vLLM, and speaks at DEFCON and OWASP.

Tomer Brook is a Senior Engineering Manager at monday.com, leading the team behind its Agentic Developer Platform and Atlas, one of its agentic developers.

Author of the "Fluent React" bestselling book, software engineer with 23 years of experience, and host of the developer-loved ConTejas Code podcast.