Brian LeRoux, of PhoneGap fame, was the chief software architect at Nitobi prior to the acquisition by Adobe. He now continues that work on Apache Cordova with the team working on Adobe's open source web efforts.

@brianleroux

Jan is an Apache CouchDB committer and co-founder of Couchbase. He is hacking on all parts of the web technology stack and focusses on making developer's lives easier.

@janl

Founder at Gather, Node.js contributor, creator of NodeConf, TacoConf and request.

@mikeal

Christian is an evangelist at 10gen, developers of MongoDB, and he has created the node.js driver.

@christkv

Charlie Robbins, a veteran of the enterprise software world and a New York native, is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nodejitsu, as well as an open source software evangelist.

@indexzero

Depending on which day of the week it is @maxogden will either be writing Node.js, HTML5, Objective-C or taking pictures of other peoples cats. He is part of the Oakland JavaScript Vanguard™ and is currently working on a mobile app called Gather that is intended to get people to go outside more often. Last year he worked at @codeforamerica where he tried really hard to fix the American government with JavaScript.

@maxogden

Maciej is an autodidactic programmer and open-source advocate from Poland. He has studied many programming languages including Python, C, C# and client-side JavaScript before falling in love with Node.js and asynchronous programming. He has contributed to the Node.js project, and maintains many high visibility open-source projects.

@maciejmalecki

Node.js Engineer at @Voxer. Co-Founder and Partner at @TheNodeFirm. Startup advisor. Developer mentor. Polyglot, skater dude and dad.

@dshaw

Owen invented SocketStream, a new way to developer interactive HTML applications. He works at AOL.

@socketstream

Paddy Byers is the CTO for Tao Group, creator of intent, a virtualisation technology used for delivering multimedia content portably to mobile phones and other consumer devices.

After more than a decade of enterprise programming, in 2010 Paolo left his research at MIT to co-found Nodejitsu. He is an open-source advocate, open-source extraordinaire, dynamic language enthusiast, and avid hacker. In addition to architecting Nodejitsu's core systems, Paolo runs training for Nodejitsu and is a curriculum designer and technology adviser to General Assembly, an accelerated learning facilitator for technology and entrepreneurship.

@hij1nx

Chris Anderson is a co-founder of Couchbase and an Apache CouchDB committer. At Couchbase he leads the mobile strategy, and designs and implements developer facing APIs. Outside of computing, Chris plays bass and dances “Ring Around the Rosie” with his 1 year old daughter.

@jchris

Designer and developer, open web enthusiast and web standards aficionado. Also conferences junkie with growing passion for speaking. As a graduate from Human-Computer Interaction she pays great attention to creating highly usable interfaces. If not working, she's probably busy coaching women in web technologies at Webmuses or organizing Javascript barcamps in her hometown - Kraków.

@karolinaszczur

Brian McKenna is a language geek, functional programmer and an active member of the "altJS" community. For the past year, he's been working on Roy - a statically-typed, functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript.

@puffnfresh

Co-founder of transloadit.com and node.js core contributor. Obsessed with squirrels.

@felixge

Maintainer of Pouch. Currently working for Mozilla at the B2G team.

@daleharvey

Web application and mobile cross platform developer, pushing the browser forward as a platform. Co-founder of uxebu, developing tools like apparat.io and Bikeshed.

@nonken

Author of shepherd.js, Xavier is also a software engineer at Neolane, porting their desktop-based app to the browser. He previously helped numerous companies move to OSS and browser-based business apps.

@xcambar

Co-founder of PhoneGap/Node.js company nearForm.com, author of Mobile App Development in the Cloud, and pragmatic optimist.

@rjrodger

CTO of ex.fm. Formerly of Amie Street and Limewire. Open-sourcer of things.

@__lucas

I’ve been programing since I was a little kid; my professional career started with doing contract web development work while I was in college. In 2011 I was working on a project that really needed node.js. But as all developers working on that project were using windows we were unable to use it, so I started porting it to windows as a side project. Soon after I was hired by Rackspace to dedicate all my time to node.js and finish the job. That was how I became one of the first node core contributors. Nowadays I am working at Cloud9 IDE in Amsterdam, who generously let me work on making node more awesome.

@piscisaureus

Volker is the creator of GeoCouch and a core contributor of MapQuery. He is proponent of open source and loves coding from JavaScript to Erlang.

@vmische

Adam started at the Open Source Applications foundation out of college, co-creating the windmill test framework. He then helped create the Mozmill testing tool working with Mozilla, and leading the test automation effort at Slide inc before joining Sauce Labs. He currently focuses on front-end development at Sauce Labs, and works on open source projects like WD.js, jellyfish and se-builder in his free time left over after snowboarding and whiskey tasting.

@admc

André was born in the beautiful Portuguese city of Leiria. Pursuing his passion for software he moved to Porto, Portugal and then Delft, Netherlands to study Computer Science. After graduation, in 2008, he joined Microsoft, first in Copenhagen and moving, in September 2010, to Redmond, USA to join the Orchard team where he further embraced web development in the ASP.NET and Windows Azure teams. In his spare time, he enjoys playing guitar, reading and traveling to new and different places.

@andremrodrigues

Working for European webOS Developer Relations, Markus is involved with webOS and the Enyo Framework daily. He loves working with other Developers and anything Web, Mobile and Technology related in general. He has a passion for communities, open-source, music and how technology affects our live.

@twtomcat

Programmer involved in a few technology startups as a founder, engineer and advisor. Creator of Nodetime.

@dmitrimelikyan

Web developer for Mozilla. Anthony is a French web standards advocate.

@rik24d

Polyglot, likes to travel, drinks lots of coffee. Technological interests are audio processing, denotational semantics, and APIs.

@neuman

Haskell hacker bringing it to the web browser with his compiles-to-JavaScript Haskell-subset Fay.

@christopherdone

Seb Lee-Delisle is a creative coder, speaker and teacher, working across platforms including JavaScript, Processing and openFrameworks. He works to bring people together with large scale installations like PixelPhones, interactive firework displays or glow-stick voting systems.

@seb_ly

Garann is a JavaScript developer who's been making websites since 1996. She's the author of "Node for Front-End Developers" from O'Reilly, has helped out with some larger open source projects, and has a few small ones of her own. She organizes Austin All-Girl Hack Night and Girl Develop It Austin.

@garannm

Node.js fanatic, who enjoys playing around with new technology and hardware.

@tmpvar

Jason has been an entrepreneur since 2002. He is an expert deploying, managing, and using CouchDB in the enterprise. He built the Iris Couch infrastructure and provides the technical vision of the Iris Couch platform.

@_jhs

I am a unix philosopher and aspiring mad scientist. I write tiny open source libraries. I co-founded browserling.com and testling.com. Previously I built underwater robots in Alaska. I draw silly cartoons and sometimes they end up on t-shirts.

@substack

Arnout is a passioned software engineer and open source enthusiast from the Netherlands. In 2011 he won first place overall, solo and utility in the Node Knockout 2011 48h hackathon. He has a background in design, front-end development and real time technologies but also loves solving hard scalability, availability and performance issues. In his spare time he's riding his 848 Ducati or hacking on his own startup Observe.it.

@3rdEden

Igor is a Portuguese Software Engineering graduate who works as a Web application developer and mentor, he has also worked simultaneously as a researcher for a European academic project, and is casually hired as a private tutor for struggling programmer academics. You might hear him advocate functional programming, asynchronism, simple design, open source, and the benefits of understanding human nature. Creator of meetoring.com

@igorsoarez