ThunderPlains Developer Conference

Kyle Simpson is a web-oriented software engineer, widely acclaimed for his "You Don't Know JS" book series and nearly 1M hours viewed of his online courses. Kyle's superpower is asking better questions, and he deeply believes in maximally using the minimally-necessary tools for any task. As a "human-centric technologist", he's passionate about bringing humans and technology together, evolving engineering organizations towards solving the right problems, in simpler ways. Kyle will always fight for the people behind the pixels.

Luke is a Privacy & Security Engineer for Mozilla Firefox. He applies his 20 years of holistic, "full-stack" software engineering experience to protect against the privacy & security threats facing billions of global internet users every day. His work focuses on data breaches, passwords, and online tracking, and he has also contributed to networking & cryptographic privacy & security. He is an advisory board member for Techlahoma Foundation, University of Tulsa, and Oklahoma State University technology programs.

Nick is an empathetic community member, full-stack developer, avid climber and cyclist. He is currently a Senior Developer Advocate at Viam where he helps people build and manage their hardware projects from anywhere in the world. He is an invited expert with TC53 to help shape the future of JS on things. In his free time, he tinkers with home automation and robots built with JavaScript. His mustache is a figment of your imagination.

Alex Riviere is a Senior Frontend Developer for Nexcor Technologies and a Co-Organizer for the Atlanta Vue.js Meetup.

Amy is a graphic designer turned software developer currently building weird, cool, and unconventional stuff at Dimensional Innovations. On her off time she can be found volunteering with Kansas City Women in Tech, reading or playing Dungeons and Dragons.

Jesse Harlin (The Simian) is an Oklahoman programmer and software architect with decades of experience and several applications under his belt ranging across several industries. He is currently the Chief Engineer and Owner of Simiancraft, a software development agency, and has formerly been a community tech organizer, leader and cofounder for OKC.js, ThunderPlains and Techlahoma. When he's not writing software, (or spending time with his family) he's probably composing new music or exploring new sounds on his synthesizers.

Dave Stokes is a Technology Evangelist for Percona Corporation. He has worked for organizations ranging alphabetically from the American Heart Association to Xerox in areas ranging from anti-submarine warfare to webmaster. He lives in a small Texas town with the required hound dog and pickup truck. And Dave is the Author of MySQL & JSON - A Practical Programming Guide now in a second edition.

Cody is a Product Strategist at Gitwit that specializes in helping companies navigate complex product development with technical research, prototyping and design thinking. Cody's recent experience includes implementing generative AI solutions for both startups and established organizations. In his spare time, Cody tinkers on his numerous side projects, including WX.Watch, a National Weather Service alert website and platform that crossposts alerts to Threads and the Fediverse. Cody lives in Tulsa with his wife and dog.