React Conference in Toronto

Josh has spent the past few years focused on teaching developers how to do cool stuff on the web. Before that, he worked as a software engineer for organizations like Khan Academy, DigitalOcean, and Unsplash, and taught web development fundamentals at Concordia University, in partnership with Journey Education.

Henri is a web performance and user experience advocate, supporter of performance literacy and a 5k distance runner. More importantly, he's busy building a mini empire focusing on developer media. Command-h is a small org in support of all his passions: people and development. When not combing through research docs, case studies and profiling, he can be found curating the next and best in person experience possible.

Staff Engineer @REDACTED, ReactJS Advocate, Speaker, Producer, Synthwave Artist, Google Dev Expert.

Sarah Rainsberger leads a large open-source software documentation project with several maintainers and over 1000 community contributors. She brings a background in high school mathematics education, academic counseling, and curriculum development to her current technical writing and open source community building. She lives in Atlantic Canada with her husband J. B. (Joe). In her spare time, she photographs birds.

Ben Vinegar is a Toronto-based engineer and founder who has spent his career building developer tools and leading engineering teams. He helped grow Sentry into one of the most widely used developer platforms, and now leads Modem, a new venture exploring how AI can assist coding and product development.

Co-author of Third-Party JavaScript (O’Reilly) and long-time writer on developer experience, performance, and tooling.

I'm a seasoned Product Manager with over five years of experience in a leading digital media company, where I have overseen the development and scaling of multiple high-traffic news platforms built on React. With an engineering background from a prestigious government college in Delhi, I bridge the gap between technical innovation and business strategy. Their expertise spans real-time user management, subscription lifecycle optimization, and cross-functional team leadership. I'm passionate about sharing actionable insights on building robust, scalable, and user-centric React applications that thrive in fast-paced, high-demand environments.

Fullstack TS dev. I like mending legacy code. I organize a few meetup groups in Montréal, including React MTL and Software Crafters.

I'm a frontend engineer at Polar Signals working on continuous profiling visualization tools. When I'm not coding, I enjoy watching The Office and taking pictures on my analog camera.

Wearer of many hats, former designer, full-stack developer, teacher, iOS Developer. Now: Staff Engineer.

Talk to me about coffee, dogs, pro-wrestling and quirky language topics.

Frédéric Harper is a seasoned Developer Advocate with over 20 years in tech, currently Senior Developer Relations Manager at Tiugo Technologies specializing in TinyMCE rich text editor. Fred has held developer advocacy roles at industry giants such as Microsoft, Mozilla, Fitbit, and npm. He's spoken at hundreds of events globally and authored a book on personal branding for developers at Apress.

Theo is a full stack designer, developer, and entrepreneur, passionate about dev tools and building simple solutions to complex problems. He's worked in a range of industries for companies like Breather, System Initiative, and Clay.

Kiril is a Principal Software Engineer @ Progress, specialized into building UI Component Libraries and an affinity for Design Systems. Focusing exclusively into this for the last 8 years, he's been exploring the OSS space lately and build his own open-source Design System Framework.

I'm Selam and I'm currently a software engineer at Apella. I've always been fascinated by technology and its potential to make our lives better and more equitable. As an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), I'm committed to making tech a come inclusive place for everyone.

I'm passionate about computer ethics and ensuring that technology is developed and used in ethical and responsible ways. I believe that technology can be a powerful force for good, but only if we approach it with a thoughtful and ethical mindset.