Henry's Zoo / speaking

would love to speak at your meetup/conference depending on schedule!

[ talks ]

Software's Agentic Future (Panel)
GenAI Collective NYC @ Deep Tech Week NYC
4/3/25
Code is a chorus
Tower Research: Synthetic Software
2/18/25
Trapped in the Open Source Supply Chain
DevX Conf
4/29/21 • 26m
Open (Source of Fear)
OS101
3/30/21 • 34m
IF HE'S IN, I'M IN
JSWorld
2/25/21
X is a Compiler
Codesmith
1/20/21 • 67m
Everything as Compiler
VueConf US
3/3/20 • 21m
Open Source at Face Value
OS Festival Africa
2/21/20 • 23m
React as Cult
useReactNYC
1/24/20
An Open Source Journey
Hack Lodge Boston
1/6/20
Defining Open Source
jsconf.jp
12/1/19
Guest Lecture
Berkeley INFO253 Nov 2019
Don't do Open Source full time
MongoDB, FB, Netflix Oct 2019
Open Source as Liturgy
The Maintainers III
10/8/19
Open Source and Work-Life Balance
Flatiron Hacktoberfest
10/5/19
Open Source and Work-Life Balance
AtlantaJS
9/16/19
Open Source: Charity or Business
JSNation
6/7/19 • 31m
Maintainers Anonymous
JSHeroes
4/11/19 • 26m
Open Sourcing "full time"
A Function
1/24/19
Maintainer's Virtue
ATO
10/23/18 • 14m
Through the (Open Source) Looking Glass
React Rally
8/17/18 • 22m
In Pursuit of Open Source
Zeit Day SF
4/28/18 • 20m
The Future of Babel with preset-env
PGD
10/12/17 • 23m
Maintainer, Heal Thyself
React Boston
9/23/17 • 20m
So How Does Babel Even Work?
React Rally
8/25/17 • 21m
Role of Babel in JS
TC39
5/24/17
Maintaining an OSS Project (Babel)
JSConf EU
5/6/17 • 16m
How Writing a Babel Plugin Is like...
BrooklynJS
6/16/16

[ podcasts ]

Quitting a steady job to chase intuition
The GitHub Podcast
33m
#1 Community and culture-centered code
Commonplace
60m
#36-38 Community is Everything
Enjoy the Vue
23m
119: Building Babel
React Podcast
57m
Staying Hum-Babel
Sustain
37m
S2:E4 The Human Side Of Open-Source
Chats with Kent
33m
#12 Open Independence
Weird Trick Mafia
40m
#74 When in doubt, log an issue
JS Party
60m
(1h1m) #344 Maintaining Babel
ShopTalk
#73 Henry Zhu
Podcast Your Data
28m
#172 Behind the Scenes of Babel 7
Web Platform Podcast
54m
#20 Maintainer of Babel
Egghead.io
55m
#37 Humans of Open-Source Software
PG Podcast
39m
(1h7m) 6/21/18 Babel
Software Engineering Daily
#4 Babel and Open Source Sustainability
The React Podcast
47m
#18 Maintaining a Popular Project and Sponsored Time
RFC
62m
#147 Next Generation JavaScript Today
Web Platform Podcast
54m
(1h9m) #32 Publishing JavaScript Packages
Javascript Air
(1h9m) #2 Babel, the JavaScript Compiler
Javascript Air

[ interviews ]

A leap of faith: Committing to open source
GitHub
The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers
Motherboard
"Netflix for Open Source" Wants Developers to Get Paid
Wired
Maintainer spotlight: Henry Zhu
GitHub
Open Source Sustainability
Techcrunch