RVAjs

Sergio Cruz

Sergio Cruz is a senior software developer who works regularly with all things JavaScript. He has a passion for teaching technical topics and loves exploring the latest web development trends.

Matt Brophy

Matt Brophy is a software developer born and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia. He’s dabbled in many areas of the stack over the years but has found his sweet spot in the “back end of the front end” and loves to geek out about things like routing, data loading, and performance. Outside of coding he spends lots of time with his wife and their two dogs, and enjoys biking, golfing, skiing, and attending Philadelphia Eagles games.

Justin Schroeder

Justin, who once piloted frozen bug bombing missions at low altitude, is a senior engineer and co-founder of [Braid LLC](https://www.wearebraid.com). He’s also the creator of [FormKit](https://formkit.com/), author of [AutoAnimate](https://auto-animate.formkit.com/), and eternal guardian of [VueFormulate](https://vueformulate.com/). When he’s not creating GitHub trending open-source packages, Justin is a devoted husband, father of three boys, and connoisseur of all things aviation.

Momin Khan

I’ve been making games and websites in Richmond for 6 years, both solo and in collaboration with local devs and artists. I also help run my game studio ROOT 76, and the local game dev group RVA Game jams. My day job throughout my career has been contract web and app development (fully remote now), which has given me a lot of opportunities to test my programming theories in the real world. I currently work for Teamflow, creating the future of remote work!

John Athayde

John Athayde is a designer and developer who spends a lot of time fighting bad coding practices in the Rails view layer. He is currently the VP of Brand + Experience for PowerFleet. He’s run Meticulous (a design consultancy) since 1997. Prior to this he ran design at CargoSense and was the Lead for UI/UX and Front-end Development‚ Internal Apps at LivingSocial. In the past he also was the lead designer at InfoEther and ran Hyphenated People with Amy Hoy. He is currently a small permaculture farm outside of Charlottesville where he can garden and play in the dirt with his wife and four children. In his free time, he plays guitar and keyboards for the DC-based band, Juniper Lane, and works on his solo music project, Rotoscope. He co-authored ‚The Rails View‚ with Bruce Williams. He holds his Masters in Architecture from Catholic University of America.

Nick Daniel

“Motivated by software’s potential to improve end-customers’ lives, I am always looking for ways to innovate/improve user experiences. And as a founding partner of a small RVA-headquartered consulting firm, I’m always looking for ways to make the company look bad by making mistakes while live-coding during talks and presentations.

Beyond full-stack development (admittedly more specialized in front-end dev), I have:

1) extensive experience creating, modifying, and organizing Figma design projects;

2) explicitly served in roles as the agilist and the product rep. Sometimes through intellectual interest, other times due to external circumstances, I have found myself with some of the different project titles:

– Tech Lead

– Product Owner

– Agile Delivery Lead

– UX/UI Designer

– Front-End Engineering Lead

– Full-Stack Engineer.

Kito D Mann

Kito D. Mann is the Principal Consultant at Virtua, Inc. (http://virtua.tech), specializing in enterprise application architecture, training, development, and mentoring with microservices, cloud, Web Components, Angular, and Jakarta/Java EE technologies. He is also the co-host of the Stacked Podcast (http://stackdpodcast.com), and the author of JavaServer Faces in Action (Manning). Mann has participated in several Java Community Process expert groups (including CDI, JSF, and Portlets) and is an internationally recognized speaker. He is also a Java Champion and Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

Jason Maggard

Jason Maggard is a Richmond based developer and speaker with 25 years experience in programming. A previous presenter with RVAJS, he has also been a speaker at international conferences like DotJS in Paris. He is currently working for Atlantis Technology as a consultant for early stage startups. His passions include music, disc golf, and clean code.

Chris Lorenzo

Chris has worked at Comcast since 2007 — currently as a Distinguished Engineer. He enjoys building/motivating teams and ramping up new projects using the latest patterns and web primitives. Outside of Comcast I am a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and I love hiking and chilling on the beach.

James Luterek

James Luterek is a seasoned ecommerce professional with over a decade of experience across software development, architecture, marketing, and analytics. Since graduating from the State University of New York with a bachelor’s in computer science and mathematics, James has worked in a large variety of roles from programmer, architect, manager, director, and Head of DevRel.

With a wide range of interests, James has presented marketing topics at Bronto Summit, technology talks at All Things Open, and ecommerce in the cloud content at Google DevFest. While comfortable speaking to an audience or discussing technology at a high level, he feels at home with an open IDE writing code.

Today, James is busy drinking copious amounts of caffeine and helping clients maximize their composable commerce implementation through code examples, training and workshops, and advice on schemas and data models.”