About conference HolyJS 2019 Moscow

Vitaly is a professor of functional programming, programming language theory and computation theory, a member of the Haskell programming language standardization committee and the Haskell GHC compiler development supervisory committee, the author of the book "Haskell in Depth" (Manning Publications).

Developer at JUG Ru Group. LongestJS organizer. He has been in web development for more than 10 years and often wrote HTML on Java. Loves good talks, Dadaism, tests, and Dart.

Guillermo Rauch is the founder of ZEIT, co-creator of Now and Next.js, and former CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Wordpress.com in 2013. His background and expertise are in the realtime web. He's the creator of socket.io, one of the most popular JavaScript projects on GitHub, with implementations in many different programming languages and frameworks. He created the first MongoDB ORM for Node.JS, MongooseJS. Before that, he was a core developer of the MooTools JavaScript framework. He's the author of "Smashing Node.JS" published by Wiley in 2012, best-selling book about Node.JS on Amazon in multiple programming categories. He's spoken at dozens of conferences all around the world about JavaScript and the realtime web, such as O'Reilly OSCon, QCon, and NDC. Originally from Argentina, he dropped out of high school and moved to the US to pursue his passions in the San Francisco startup world. He's passionate about open source as an education medium. He's a former mentor of an Open Source Engineering class organized and pioneered by Stanford, with students from Harvard, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, UPenn, Columbia, and others.

Nicolò has been a core Babel developer since 2017, and he has helped with the development of different ECMAScript proposal. When offline, he is a mathematics student in Turin, Italy.

Aki has been writing JavaScript for nearly 20 years and still needs to google the parameters for array mutation methods every. single. time. At some point she accidentally stumbled into the standards world and is now one of three co-chairs of TC39, specifying JavaScript. She currently works for Braintree and represents PayPal in Ecma.

Yulia Startsev is a programmer at Mozilla, recently working on SpiderMonkey. She is also one of three co-chairs of Ecma's TC39, the standardizing body for JavaScript.

Dmitry was graduated from The State University of Management where he took MBI degree in 2008. Ph.D. in Pedagogy, author of "Lifelong learning concept" monography. At 27 he became a CIO of the large research and production group, in 2012 he joined the Mail.Ru team and headed the department of research and production. Since 2016 he is head of Rostec corporate network academy, since 2017 he is a senior vice president of "ProObraz". A councilor of Moscow Aviation Institute rector, a member of social and business council under the government of the Russian Federation. Founder of Otus, an online education company.

Google Developer Expert in web technologies. Founder of PerfPerfPerf which helps other companies earn more money by making web applications faster. Acts on the stage and writes articles.

Michael Saboff is a Software Engineer working on the JavaScriptCore virtual machine for the past 9 years. He is a member of the JS standards committee, TC-39.