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.
Jake Archibald is a web platform engineer at Mozilla working on Firefox, and one of the most recognisable voices in web standards. Originally a Flash developer turned BBC JavaScript engineer, he helped define the modern web's offline capabilities as one of the editors of the Service Worker specification. He spent years as a Developer Advocate at Google Chrome, co-hosted the HTTP 203 podcast with Paul Lewis, and delivered one of the most-watched browser internals talks ever - 'In The Loop' at JSConf.Asia 2018. He resigned from Google in 2023, joined Mozilla, and continues pushing the web forward with the same irreverent clarity that made him a developer favourite.
Nate Berkopec is the world's foremost Ruby on Rails performance expert, founder of Speedshop consultancy, co-maintainer of the Puma web server, and author of 'The Complete Guide to Rails Performance.' A self-taught programmer who pivoted from a Shark Tank appearance at 19, he now runs a thriving consulting and education business from Tokyo, helping Rails developers squeeze every last millisecond out of their applications.
Andrew Kelley is the creator of the Zig programming language and president of the Zig Software Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit he founded in 2020. In 2018, he walked away from a senior engineering role at OkCupid to work on Zig full-time on donations alone - a bet that has since attracted $512,000+ in corporate pledges, spawned production-grade projects like Bun and TigerBeetle, and built one of the most passionate communities in systems programming. He writes the 'Zig Zag' newsletter covering Zig and systems programming.