Dan Vega is a Spring Developer Advocate at VMware Tanzu. He has been developing software for the web for over 20 years and his superpower is problem-solving. Dan is a blogger, YouTuber, course creator, and speaker. He is a lifelong learner and his passion is sharing his knowledge with the developer community. Dan lives near Cleveland Ohio with his beautiful wife and 2 daughters. When he isn’t writing code or teaching he enjoys spending time with his family, lifting weights, running, or reading a good book.

Sean is a Lead Software Engineer at Chick-fil-A where he works on overall web architecture throughout the Operator Technology Solutions team. Prior to learning how to code, he attended music school and played the trumpet professionally for over a decade. Sean is very passionate about testing, performance and tools that provide a good developer experience.

Alex Riviere is a Senior Frontend Developer for Nexcor Technologies and a Co-Organizer for the Atlanta Vue.js Meetup.

Chris DeMars is a Senior Developer Advocate II at DigitalOcean with over 20 years of technical experience. He speaks all over the world on web accessibility, feature flags, A/B testing, and CSS. For his community contributions, he holds awards as a Progress Champion and former Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert, Cloudinary Media Developer Expert, and Auth0 Ambassador. When he is not working on making the web great and accessible you can find him fishing, on the paintball field, rating Detroit Style pizza, and looking for UFO's.

Often described as a force of nature, Jennifer is a visionary leader with a proven track record in management excellence and leading software teams to successful execution of business goals. With deep roots in frontend engineering Jennifer is still widely regarded as an expert in the Angular space despite her growing tenure in non-coding management roles. Jennifer combines years of experience in developing JavaScript applications through interfacing with users, stakeholders and business executives with a keen eye on the current development landscape & trends to craft strategic vision and lead teams to sustainable growth that contributes to company success. Jennifer is passionate about developer communities, and shares her expertise in frontend development, engineering management, maximizing productivity, and community building across the world as a widely sought-after public speaker. She is also the founder of Kansas City Women in Technology, a non-profit that has taught thousands of women and girls in the Kansas City area to code, and helped women enter tech careers.

Software Engineer at PayPal working on Checkout. When not coding, Waller enjoys biking, hiking, and being from Atlanta

Danielle Maxwell is a Junior Distributed Systems Engineer at Rotational Labs. She’s an experienced developer in JavaScript, React, and Go. Danielle enjoys watching Liverpool matches (when they win) and discovering new foods while traveling.

Matti Tahvonen has worked on web apps for over two decades. The first-ever JS developer at Vaadin has turned into Java/JVM enthusiast over the years when working with a pure Open Source Java web framework and doing some business on top of it. When Matti is not working, time is mostly spent on nature-related hobbies and software to support those.