Alex Russell is a Partner Product Architect at Microsoft Edge and Blink API OWNER who spent 13 years at Google shaping the modern web. He co-created Dojo Toolkit, coined the term 'Progressive Web Apps' alongside Frances Berriman in 2015, and led the delivery of Service Workers, Web Components, ES6 Promises and Classes, Push Notifications, and Project Fugu. A three-time elected member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group and decade-long TC39 representative, Russell writes the newsletter 'Infrequently Noted' where he advocates relentlessly for a fast, open, and equitable web - especially for the billions on budget Android devices that the developer community tends to forget.
Cassidy Williams is a Chicago-based software engineer, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub, and one of the most recognizable voices in the frontend developer community. Known online as @cassidoo, she runs the widely-read weekly newsletter 'rendezvous with cassidoo,' builds mechanical keyboards, mentors early-career engineers, and has spoken everywhere from TED stages to the United Nations. She's a Glamour '35 Women Under 35 Changing the Tech Industry' honoree, a LinkedIn Top Professional, and a firm believer that you get a lot by giving.