Shaun Smith built Fast Agent, the first agent framework designed from the ground up for MCP. He also built the Hugging Face MCP server, and in a recent interview, he showed us how to combine them by deploying a sub-agent as a remote MCP server.
Rizel Scarlett led open-source developer relations at Block, where Goose continues to serve as the reference implementation for new protocol features. From MCP UI to MCP Apps, Goose is where standards meet reality.
Melissa Herrera is a Senior Developer Advocate at Temporal who previously built multi-agent systems at DataStax and Langflow. She's now making the case that the fragility of complex agentic tool-calling chains is a solved problem if you treat your tools as workflows rather than fire-and-forget functions.
Jack Herrington has been shipping JavaScript for 40 years and educating developers on YouTube as the Blue Collar Coder. As a core contributor to TanStack, he's now building TanStack AI, a type-safe, provider-agnostic SDK for adding AI to web apps. Its upcoming Code Mode feature shows what happens when you let agents orchestrate MCP tools with TypeScript.
Michael Hablich has spent 20 years building developer tools at Google. Now he's giving coding agents the same debugging superpowers that Chrome DevTools gave web developers over a decade ago. Meet Chrome DevTools’s MCP Server
Sam Morrow and his colleagues started building GitHub's MCP server as an internal side project. One year and a bumpy start later, it's the most-used remote MCP server in the world. Sam has much to teach us about scaling tool design, auth, and what agents actually need from an enterprise server.
Paul Asjes has been building SDKs at Stripe and WorkOS for years. Now, as DevX Lead at ElevenLabs, he's rethinking what developer education means when the learner is a developer's agent.
Alex Nahas built MCP inside a browser at Amazon. Now Microsoft and Google are turning it into a W3C standard. This article is adapted from Alex's interview in our video series MCP MVP. Episode 1 features Alex Nahas, creator of MCP-B and a driving force behind the WebMCP specification.
