Panel: Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend

Brian is the co-founder of Begin.com, the best way to build Functional Web Apps (FWAs). He is the creator and maintainer of OpenJS Architect, an open-source framework for generating and deploying AWS standard SAM/CloudFormation and coined the term FWA. Also a maintainer of the recently shipped Enhance.dev which is the first HTML framework. You can catch him @brianleroux on Twitter where he talks about open source, JavaScript, serverless, FWA, and other web developer stuff.

Brian Douglas is the founder and CEO of Open Sauced where he works on increasing the knowledge and insights of open-source communities. In the past he’s lead Developer Advocacy at GitHub by fostering a community of early adopters through content creation showcasing the newest Github features.

Brian has a passion for open-source and loves mentoring new contributors through Open Sauced, the platform that empowers the best developers to work in open-source.

Laurie Voss has been a web developer for 26 years and is passionate about making the web bigger, better and more accessible to users and developers alike. Previously the co-founder of npm, Inc. he currently works as a data evangelist at Netlify, gathering strategic data about trends in the web development industry and relaying them to the web development community.

Alex is a software engineer at Convex, building Convex’s reactive backend-as-a-service platform. He’s passionate about reactivity, TypeScript, databases, GraphQL, and mountains. Previously he worked at Asana, leading the Client Infrastructure team.