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Who’s Who in Meteor Development – 15 Best Devs

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Meteor.js is more than just a full-stack JavaScript framework—it’s a thriving community powered by passionate developers, educators, and innovators.

Over the past decade, a select group of individuals has elevated Meteor’s ecosystem through relentless open-source contributions, real-world applications, cutting-edge tooling, and grassroots community building. From core contributors and startup founders to ambassadors and toolsmiths, these standout professionals have shaped the future of Meteor development across the globe. Below is a curated list of the most impactful Meteor developers today—engineers whose work continues to inspire, educate, and empower the next generation of real-time app builders.

  1. Jan Dvořák
  2. Jan Küster
  3. Leonardo Venturini
  4. Denilson Silva
  5. Ignacio Codoñer
  6. Dominik Ferber
  7. Kelly Copley
  8. Dmitry Golev
  9. Alim Gafar
  10. Mehdi Mahmoudi
  11. Lindoélio Lázaro
  12. Guillaume Chau
  13. Lauri Ojansivu
  14. Gabriel Engel
  15. Juan Pablo Mejía

Now, let’s delve deeper into their remarkable contributions and impact.

Jan Dvořák

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Nationality: Czech

Known as “Storyteller” in the Meteor community, Jan Dvořák has transitioned from a Meteor enthusiast to a core contributor and community ambassador.

He’s the CEO/CTO of Literary Universe, a startup built on Meteor (his 2016 master’s project that’s still thriving). Jan maintains over 60 Meteor packages as part of Meteor Community Packages and co-hosts the weekly “Meteor Dispatch” podcast to keep developers up-to-date. He also organized the Meteor Impact conference, playing a key role in sustaining Meteor’s vibrant community. Jan’s mission is to help developers of all levels feel at home with Meteor and leverage its full potential.

Jan Küster

Nationality: German

Jan Küster (a.k.a. jankapunkt) is a Meteor ambassador and prolific open-source contributor from Germany.

As a Research Software Engineer at University of Bremen, he builds full-stack JS applications and even integrates Meteor into educational platforms. Jan actively writes about advanced Meteor techniques (e.g. transforming Meteor apps into PWAs) and shares knowledge on Dev.to. He also created the LEA platform – a learning tool for adult education – using Meteor. As an ambassador, Jan promotes Meteor technology and mentors newcomers, embodying the community’s welcoming spirit.

Leonardo Venturini

Leonardo Venturini - Who's Who in Meteor Development – 15 Best Devs

Nationality: Brazilian

Leonardo is a self-taught developer who became a Meteor Software engineer and a core team member.

He’s best known for developing Meteor DevTools Evolved, the browser extension that modernized Meteor’s debugging experience. Leonardo’s contributions span from open-sourcing build tool improvements to maintaining Monti APM integrations. A passionate JavaScript/Node developer, he has championed Meteor’s compatibility with new tech (like Node 18 and Vite) and frequently engages with the community via forums and social media. His work ensures Meteor developers have robust tools and up-to-date support.

Denilson Silva

Nationality: Brazilian

Denilson is a member of the Meteor Core Team who helped drive the Meteor 3.0 release.

Formerly a software engineer at Meteor’s parent company and at Quave, he has been instrumental in upgrading Meteor’s internals (Node.js 20 integration, fiber-to-async migration, etc.). Denilson often authors official Meteor blog posts announcing new versions and features, guiding developers through changes (e.g., Node integration and security fixes). He also contributes code to core packages and tools (e.g., the Meteor CLI and build system). His clear writing and coding expertise have helped the community smoothly adopt the latest Meteor improvements.

Ignacio Codoñer

Nationality: Spanish

Nacho is a full-stack JavaScript engineer who joined Meteor Software’s open-source team to advance the Meteor framework.

With 8+ years of Meteor experience, he’s contributed major enhancements to Meteor’s build system and performance (he spearheaded efforts to speed up Meteor’s rebuild times and modernize the dev workflow). Nacho is also the creator of Billdroid.app and brings real-world product insight to the core team. He’s an active community voice – featured in Meteor 3 launch week discussions – and has written guides on getting started with Meteor 3 + React. His passion for a “JavaScript-first” approach across platforms aligns perfectly with Meteor’s philosophy.

Dominik Ferber

Dominik Ferber - Who's Who in Meteor Development – 15 Best Devs

Nationality: German

Dominik contributed to Meteor in its early days, helping introduce ES2015+ features into the framework (he authored the first guides on using ES6 modules and Babel with Meteor).

In 2022, he briefly re-joined Meteor development to record the first Meteor University course, sharing his deep knowledge with a new generation. Dominik co-maintained Meteor’s ECMAScript compiler and was active on forums helping developers adopt new Meteor patterns. Today he’s a Next.js consultant (building tools like happykit.dev), but he remains respected in the Meteor world for his past leadership. As co-author of numerous community packages and tutorials, Dominik bridged Meteor with modern JavaScript best practices.

Kelly Copley

What kept me using Meteor all these years isn’t just the tech—it’s the people. It’s one of the most welcoming and collaborative dev communities out there.

Nationality: American

Kelly is a veteran Meteor developer and evangelist who has been part of the community since 2011.

A prolific open-source maintainer, he created Packosphere – Meteor’s web package explorer for discovering community packages. Kelly also leads the Socialize package series (real-time social features for Meteor) and has contributed to the Meteor Community Packages initiative. In 2019 he briefly joined Meteor Software as a Developer Evangelist, acting as a bridge between core devs and the community. His mentorship and forum presence have helped countless developers, and he continues to build apps with Meteor (often pairing it with React and Node) while championing Meteor at meetups.

Dmitry Golev

Nationality: Cypriot

Known as @Dr. Dimitru in the Meteor community, Dmitry has been a Meteor developer since version 0.7 (circa 2014).

He runs Veliov Group, a consultancy that has produced some of Meteor’s most-used packages – Dmitry himself has created 30+ Meteor packages, including ostrio:files (file uploads), spiderable-middleware (SEO pre-rendering), and many others. He also built ostr.io, a Meteor-based web maintenance and monitoring service used by developers. As an official Meteor Ambassador, Dmitry tirelessly helps others on forums and preserves Meteor’s Blaze traditions (he still prefers Blaze for front-end). His longevity and prolific output have made him one of the global pillars of Meteor’s open-source ecosystem.

Alim Gafar

Alim Gafar - Who's Who in Meteor Development – 15 Best Devs

Nationality: American

Alim is Vice President of Strategy at Meteor Software, where he blends business insight with technical know-how.

A self-described data scientist and AI enthusiast, he also volunteers as a Meteor Ambassador, co-hosting the weekly Meteor Dispatches livestream alongside other community leaders. Alim created meteor-hero, a tool for one-command Meteor deployments, reflecting his drive to simplify developers’ lives. He’s often the connector between Meteor’s core team and user community – answering questions on forums, moderating the Meteor Slack/Discord, and championing Meteor to startups. With an MBA and an engineering background, Alim brings a unique perspective that helps guide Meteor’s product direction and outreach strategy.

Mehdi Mahmoudi

Nationality: Tunisian

Mehdi (a.k.a. “Medi the Jedi”) is a full-stack engineer who founded EMIKETIC Technologies, a dev shop specializing in real-time web apps with Meteor.

An electrical engineer by training (and even a certified scuba instructor), Mehdi fell in love with Meteor for its blend of front-end and back-end power. He has used Meteor + React extensively to deliver enterprise digital transformation projects (and often speaks about it, including a talk on scaling large Meteor apps for enterprise clients). Active in the community since 2015, Mehdi has organized Meteor meetups in Tunisia and wrote one of the first French blog series on Meteor’s evolution. He continues to mentor developers and promote Meteor as a highly productive framework for startups in Africa and beyond.

Lindoélio Lázaro

Nationality: Brazilian

Lindoélio is one of Meteor’s 10 global Ambassadors, proudly representing the Brazilian Meteor community.

An IT architecture manager by profession (PicPay Bank), he organizes Meteor Meetups in Brazil and fosters Meteor adoption in Latin America. Lindoélio has been a Meteor user since around 2015 and even contributed code to open-source Meteor projects (including some early Rocket.Chat modules). He often writes and speaks about Meteor in Portuguese, introducing the framework to new developers. Known for his enthusiasm, he emphasizes how Meteor simplifies full-stack development with real-time data. His advocacy, alongside Brazilian core contributors at Meteor Software, has significantly grown Meteor’s international community.

Guillaume Chau

Guillaume Chau - Who's Who in Meteor Development – 15 Best Devs

Nationality: French

Guillaume is a prominent Vue.js core team member who bridged the Meteor and Vue ecosystems.

He created vue-meteor integration and helped make Meteor’s reactivity work smoothly with modern front-end frameworks. In 2022–2023, Guillaume contributed the meteor-vite tooling that allows Meteor apps to use the Vite build system, greatly improving front-end performance and modern workflows. Thanks to his work, Meteor now supports cutting-edge front-end setups (Vue 3, Vite 4, etc.), ensuring Meteor isn’t limited to Blaze or older tools. Guillaume also developed popular dev tools like Vue DevTools and vue-apollo, and his expertise in real-time apps and GraphQL has influenced Meteor’s path. His tutorial on Meteor + Vite has become a go-to guide for the community.

Lauri Ojansivu

Nationality: Finnish

Lauri is the maintainer of Wekan, a popular open-source Trello-like kanban board built on Meteor.

Since taking over Wekan’s development in late 2016, he has added or modified millions of lines of code in the project, keeping one of the largest Meteor applications alive and well. Under Lauri’s stewardship, Wekan has expanded to run on many platforms (Docker, RaspPi, etc.) and even on Mainframe systems. He actively interacts with both the Meteor core team and the broader OSS community to tackle issues like build performance and MongoDB migrations for Wekan. Lauri’s work demonstrates Meteor’s capability in sustaining a complex, long-running app. He also contributes back to Meteor (for example, suggesting improvements to Meteor build tool configurations).

Gabriel Engel

Gabriel Engel - Who's Who in Meteor Development – 15 Best Devs

Nationality: Brazilian

Gabriel is the co-founder and CEO of Rocket.Chat, one of the world’s largest open-source Meteor applications – a messaging platform used by millions.

In 2015, he chose Meteor for Rocket.Chat to leverage its real-time data and fast prototyping, and the project quickly became a flagship example of Meteor’s power. Gabriel has since grown Rocket.Chat into a company (backed by Y Combinator) while the app, still Meteor-based, pushes the limits of scalability (hundreds of thousands of users). He frequently speaks about why Meteor was key to Rocket.Chat’s success and has given talks at Meteor DevShop and Meteor Impact conferences. By open-sourcing Rocket.Chat, Gabriel has contributed immensely to the Meteor ecosystem – many developers learned Meteor by studying Rocket.Chat’s code.

Juan Pablo Mejía

Nationality: Colombian

Juan is a full-stack developer and co-founder of Global Pioneers, a startup studio where he builds ~80% of client projects with Meteor.

A Meteor user since 2015, he has created multiple online learning platforms powered by Meteor, and he actively publishes tutorials (e.g. integrating Stripe payments in Meteor) to help others. As a Meteor Ambassador, Juan’s goal is to make newcomers feel at ease and demonstrate that anything achievable in other stacks can be done more simply in Meteor. He frequently shares knowledge on his blog (Codify Tools) and social media, in both English and Spanish, expanding Meteor’s reach in the Latin American tech scene.

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