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.
Surma (known online as @DasSurma) is a Principal Software Engineer at Shopify focused on developer experience and monorepo architecture. A former Google Chrome Team Web Advocate, he is best known for making WebAssembly and Web Workers approachable through open-source tools like Comlink (12k+ GitHub stars), Squoosh, and PROXX. He co-hosts the 'Off The Main Thread' podcast with Jake Archibald and publishes deep technical articles at surma.dev. Based in Bristol, UK, Surma has spent his career removing the friction between developers and the harder parts of the web platform.