Infobip Shift
Conference

Hi, I'm Kent C. Dodds. I'm a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and I'm actively involved in the open source community as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. I am the creator of EpicReact.Dev and TestingJavaScript.com. I'm an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. I'm also a Google Developer Expert. I am happily married and the father of four kids. I like my family, code, JavaScript, and React.

Simona Cotin is a web developer with a passion for teaching. She spends most of her time tinkering with JavaScript in the cloud and sharing her experience with other developers at community events like meetups and conferences or online. As a Cloud Developer Advocate, Simona engages with the web community to help create a great developer experience with Azure.

Misko Hevery is the CTO at Builder.io, where he is helping to empower anyone to create blazing fast sites. Previously he has worked at Google, where he created Angular, AngualarJS and was co-creator of Karma. Before focusing on making the web better, he brought testing culture to Google and the world through his blog. Miško started his career by designing digital circuits and moved to databases, full-stack development, and finally, front-end frameworks, giving him a unique perspective. He understands all of the layers from the web down to a transistor.

I love building software for the Web and enabling developers and businesses to create sites, apps and products that delight their users and push the capabilities of what we think is possible with technology today. Through Developer Advocacy, I work with developers every day to drive change in the platforms that they build on, and influence the wider web ecosystem to build for their users. I've been lucky enough to be able to set the long term direction and strategy for our team and many businesses across the globe.

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) is the creator of Ruby on Rails, co-founder of Basecamp & HEY, best-selling author, Le Mans class-winning racing driver, antitrust advocate, frequent podcast guest, and family man. Find out more?

Nader Dabit is a web and mobile developer, author, open source enthusiast, and Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services.

Vitaly loves beautiful content and does not give up easily. Born in Minsk, Belarus, he studied computer science and mathematics in Germany. While writing algebra proofs and preparing for software engineering at nights in the kitchen, at the same time he discovered passion for typography, interface design and writing. After working as a freelance designer and developer for 6 years, he co-founded Smashing Magazine back in 2006, a leading online magazine for designers and developers. His curiosity drove him from interface design to front-end to performance optimization to accessibility and back to user experience over all the years.Vitaly is the author, co-author and editor of all Smashing books (https://www.smashingmagazine.com/books), and a curator of all Smashing Conferences (https://www.smashingconf.com). He currently works as creative lead of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com) and front-end/UX consultant in Europe and abroad.

Ali teaches people to code. She loves Python, JavaScript, and talking about programming. She has been writing React since before es6 classes. She is a Senior Developer Advocate on the AWS Amplify team. Ali also blogs about code, aimed mostly at a beginner audience. Her writing has gotten over a million readers in the past year. She has also spoken at over 50 events in the last few years. When Ali's not working, you can find her watching New England sports, competing on CodeWars, taking runs around the city, rock climbing, or participating in coding community events.

Val Head is a Senior Design Advocate at Adobe, author, and web animation expert. She is the author of Designing Interface Animation on Rosenfeld Media, teaches CSS Animation on lynda.com, and curates the weekly UI Animation Newsletter. Val has been published by Fast Company, A List Apart, and Smashing Magazine, and she’s spoken at dozens of events all over the world including Pixel Up, Web Directions, UX Week and An Event Apart.

Infobip’s CTO and cofounder Izabel Jelenic started his business career as a developer, but he soon became the visionary and leading force of what has become one of the world’s top-performing communication platforms. Implementing new solutions on the Infobip platform and nurturing the rapidly growing Infobip development team is instrumental in his everyday work while creating the most productive and rewarding working environment for employees.

David is a software engineer who loves playing piano and is passionate about animations, state machines, cutting-edge user interfaces, and open-source. Previously at Microsoft, he is now the founder of Stately, a startup focused on building the best visual software modeling tools and services.

Kene Udeze is a product designer & community organizer currently based in Amsterdam. In his current role @ [Booking.com](http://booking.com/), he works within teams to build systems & tools that empower partners to enable their users to travel & experience the world. Previously, he led design @ Co-creation Hub where he collaborated with organizations across diverse industries to build products & solve business needs. Kene is firmly invested in accelerating Design Education in Africa. Together with some He actively contributes to ForHumansByHumans, Usable, and hosts WhenWeDesign - a podcast exploring how businesses apply design for scale in Africa.

Joe Karlsson is a software engineer turned Developer Advocate at MongoDB. He comes from the frozen tundra of Minneapolis, Minnesota (and yes, it does get really cold here, and no, not everyone here has the accent from the movie, Fargo). Joe has been primarily a Node and JavaScript engineer. He has been writing, teaching, and talking about code his entire career. Sharing what he knows and continuing to learn about programming is truly the thing he loves doing the most.

Eleftheria is a passionate front end developer and UX researcher from Greece. She has majored in Informatics and Telecommunications of engineering and she has continued her studies with a master's in Graphic Arts and Multimedia. From time to time she creates educational content and publishes it on several platforms such as Packt, Udemy and Skillshare. At the same time, she produces motivational talks and how-to videos on her youtube channel. She is self-motivated and working hard to make this world a little bit better every day. When she isn't glued to a computer screen, Eleftheria spends time working out and strolling in nature. Her friends would describe her as easy-going, passionate about life and the fastest chocolate eater.

Swyx is passionate about Developer Tooling and Developer Communities. He is Head of Developer Experience at Temporal.io and recently published the Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior developer careers. In his free time he teaches React, TypeScript, Storybook and Node.js CLI's at Egghead.io, and helps run the Svelte Society community of meetups.

Chen Hui Jing is a self-taught designer and developer living in Singapore, with an inordinate love for CSS, as evidenced by her blog, that is mostly about CSS, and her tweets, which are largely about typography and the web. She used to play basketball full-time and launched her web career during downtime between training sessions.

Sebastien Chopin is the co-founder of Nuxt, the intuitive Vue framework. Web developer for 14 years, he loves JavaScript, Open Source, Basketball and dancing.

Thorsten, a graduate industrial engineer, works in his day job as a product owner at one of Germany's largest B2B energy service providers. After dark, he lives out his passion for programming, the web and everything digital. Since 2016, he has been part of the core team of Vue.js, one of the dominant frontend frameworks in the open source world. He regularly contributes to the core libraries as well as the surrounding ecosystem and is a well-known face in the community.

Mike is a developer, Angular GDE, and Developer Advocate at Ionic. When he's not working Ionic itself, Mike works with community members and helps them succeed at mobile. In his spare time, he’s an aspiring woodworker, occasional musician, and craft beer lover.

Eric is Red Hat’s Portfolio Architect Director. He's renowned in the development community as a speaker, lecturer, author, and baseball expert. In his current role allows him to share his knowledge of Red Hat’s open source technologies and cloud computing. He brings a unique perspective to the stage with a professional life dedicated to sharing his deep expertise of open source technologies and organizations.

Gift Egwuenu is a frontend developer at Passionate People and content creator. She is passionate about making the web accessible to everyone and also an advocate for building open-source software and developer communities.

Lamis is a Google Developer Expert for Angular and an auth0 ambassador. She's an enthusiastic software engineer with a strong passion for the modern web, a member of WWCode Community, content creator, speaker and a trainer.

Evangelina Ferreira is a Front-end developer and teacher. She currently works as a UI Developer and has been teaching web technologies at the National Technological University of Argentina for more than five years.Throughout her career Evangelina has been deeply involved in the Argentinian web community. She enjoys giving workshops and talks and since 2015 she has been organizing CSSConf Argentina, an international non-profit event that brings experts from all around the globe to speak about web technologies. In her spare time she loves reading W3C drafts as much as Harry Potter, creating animations and playing with her cats.

Eduardo is a Front-end Nerd who works on the Vue.js Core Team, with a particular focus on its official Router. He's very invested in Open Source, and loves developing maintainable and tested front end architectures.

Nic works as a developer advocate at HashiCorp and a published author currently writing a book on Service Mesh Patterns for O'Reilly due to be published this year. Nic has over 25 years of industry experience and loves teaching and sharing his experience building distributed systems.

30 years of experience have not dulled the fascination Gil Tayar has with software development. His passion is distributed systems and figuring out how to scale development to big teams. Extreme modularity and testing are the main tools in his toolbelt, using them to combat the code spaghetti monster at companies like Wix, Applitools, and at his current job as software architect at Roundforest. In his private life, he is a dad to two lovely kids (and a cat), an avid reader of Science Fiction, (he counts Samuel Delany, Robert Silverberg, and Robert Heinlein as favorites) and a passionate film buff. (Stanley Kubrick, Lars Von Trier, David Cronenberg, anybody?)

Michael Hladky is a Google Developer Expert (GDE), Microsoft MVP, trainer, and consultant with a focus on Angular and RxJS. For years he has helped companies and developers to set up scalable architectures and performant processes enabling teams to keep up with state of the art development. A vibrant member of the tech community, he organizes multiple community events and workshops each year.

Keyfer Mathewson is a Director of Engineering at Clio, living in Edmonton, AB, Canada with his wife Sammy, and their dog Poppy. He's an amateur generalized hobbyist, enjoying diving deep into a hobby for a few months at a time, then changing it up completely. He enjoys all types of sports, from mountain biking to Brazilian jiu-jitsu, putting anything on the bbq, and old-school video games like Diablo 2.

Gleb Bahmutov is a JavaScript ninja, image processing expert, and software quality fanatic. During the day Gleb is making the web a better place as a Distinguished Engineer at Cypress.io. At night he is fighting software bugs and blogs about it at https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/. You can follow him and his work @bahmutov and find the slides from conference presentations at https://slides.com/bahmutov.

Ivan co-founded Codeanywhere, the first cross platform Cloud IDE, which now has over a two million developers worldwide. Alongside this, Ivan founded the largest developer conference in SE Europe called Shift, which was acquired by Infobip - a global communications cloud provider in 2021. Ivan now serves as the Chief Developer Experience Officer at Infobip, running all global developer facing operations.

Communicator, confidence-booster & connector, essentially, I travel the world to help people tell stronger stories and to take control of their speaking - making an impact. I help keynote speakers, TEDx speakers, professionals, companies and entrepreneurs bring more value to their messages, gain investment and persuade with impact - when it matters. Dubai to Brussels, Shanghai to Amsterdam, my presentation coaching skills and MC talents are in high demand across global digital, business and startup scenes. Supporting teams and individuals who value the need to improve, I shift people's mindsets to show them exactly what it takes to reach the next level in their communication. During my career I've lived in Paris, Marseille, Granada, Mallorca, Madeira, Malta, Budapest, Rovinj and now based in Split, Croatia - someone with a strong growth mind-set who loves to be kept on his toes.