Michael Chan | Life enthusiast chantastic is a software engineer and community leader with a passion for education. As the host of React Podcast, he has shared insights from open source luminaries and engineer-creators. His curious and engaging style has helped aspiring engineers learn React. https://github.com/chantastic https://twitter.com/chantastic Lauren Tan | Meta Lauren’s programming career peaked when she first discovered the marquee tag. She’s been chasing that high ever since. She studied Finance instead of CS in college, so she learned to code using Excel instead of Java. Lauren enjoys dropping cheeky memes in chat, playing video games with her partner, and petting her dog Zelda. https://github.com/poteto https://twitter.com/potetotes Mofei Zhang | Meta Mofei started programming when she realized it can help her cheat in video games. She focused on operating systems in undergrad / grad school, but now finds herself happily tinkering on React. Outside of work, she enjoys debugging bouldering problems and planning her next backpacking trip(s). https://github.com/mofeiZ Ricky Hanlon | Meta Ricky majored in theoretical math and somehow found himself on the React Native team for a couple years before joining the React team. When he’s not programming you can find him snowboarding, biking, climbing, golfing, or closing GitHub issues that do not match the issue template. https://github.com/rickhanlonii https://twitter.com/rickhanlonii Jason Bonta | Meta Jason abandoned embedded-C for a career in front-end engineering and never looked back. Armed with esoteric CSS knowledge and a passion for beautiful UI, Jason joined Facebook in 2010, where he now feels privileged to have seen JavaScript development come of age. Though he may not understand how for-of loops work, he loves getting to work with brilliant people on projects that enable amazing UX. Joe Savona | Meta Joe was planning to major in math and philosophy but got into computer science after writing physics simulations in Matlab. Prior to React, he worked on Relay, RSocket.js, and the Skip programming language. While he’s not building some sort of reactive system he enjoys running, studying Japanese, and spending time with his family. https://github.com/josephsavona https://twitter.com/en_JS Josh Story | Vercel Josh majored in Mathematics and discovered programming while in college. His first professional developer job was to program insurance rate calculations in Microsoft Excel, the paragon of Reactive Programming which must be why he now works on React. In between that time Josh has been an IC, Manager, and Executive at a few startups. outside of work he likes to push his limits with cooking. https://github.com/gnoff https://twitter.com/joshcstory Dan Abramov | Bluesky Dan got into programming after he accidentally discovered Visual Basic inside Microsoft PowerPoint. He has found his true calling in turning Sebastian’s tweets into long-form blog posts. Dan occasionally wins at Fortnite by hiding in a bush until the game ends. https://github.com/gaearon https://twitter.com/dan_abramov Andrew Clark | Vercel Andrew got started with web development by making sites with WordPress, and eventually tricked himself into doing JavaScript. His favorite pastime is karaoke. Andrew is either a Disney villain or a Disney princess, depending on the day. https://github.com/acdlite https://twitter.com/acdlite This Q&A was part of React Conf 2024, co-hosted by Meta (https://www.meta.com) and Callstack (https://www.callstack.com/). See more React Conf 2024 talks here: https://conf.react.dev/talks Thank you to React Conf 2024's sponsors: 💎 Diamond Sponsor Shopify: https://remix.run/ 🏆 Platinum Sponsor Amazon: https://developer.amazon.com/apps-and-games?cmp=US_2024_05_3P_React-Conf-2024&ch=prtnr&chlast=prtnr&pub=ref&publast=ref&type=org&typelast=org 🥇 Gold Sponsors Sentry: https://sentry.io/for/react/?utm_source=sponsored-conf&utm_medium=sponsored-event&utm_campaign=frontend-fy25q2-evergreen&utm_content=logo-reactconf2024-learnmore MUI: https://mui.com/?utm_source=conf.react.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=sponsor2024&utm_content=sponsorslist Abbott: https://www.jobs.abbott/software 🥈 Silver Sponsors Redwood: https://redwoodjs.com Expo: https://expo.dev/ 🌈 Diversity Sponsor Vercel: https://vercel.com