#Talks and presentations
I speak about PDF engineering, document systems, performance, standards, and the engineering decisions behind production-grade document workflows.
##Topics I speak about
- PDF performance and rendering bottlenecks
- PDF/UA, PDF/A, and shipping compliant document workflows
- HTML-to-PDF systems that survive real production complexity
- Digital signing and validation in enterprise document pipelines
- Designing technical systems for both human users and LLM-assisted workflows
##Selected talks
###Devoxx Belgium 2026: Engineering Lessons from Working on Software Older Than Me
A lunch talk on what years of maintaining PDF technology, which predates smartphones, cloud platforms and most modern programming languages, teach about resilient software design. Real stories about compatibility, performance, security, testing, and interoperability at scale, and why the hardest problems are often the ones users never notice.
###Microsoft Build 2026: Design systems for every user, including people and LLMs
A pre-recorded session at Microsoft Build 2026 on how accessible PDF documents are no longer just a compliance checkbox but are valuable to make your documents better understandable for LLMs.
###GIDS 2026 (India): Your Users Are Not Just Human: Designing Systems for People and LLMs
A talk about designing modern systems for both human users and AI-assisted workflows, with a focus on product thinking and implementation trade-offs.
###PDF Days Europe 2025: Enterprise-Grade HTML 2 PDF
A technical poster presented at PDF Days Europe 2025, on what it takes to turn HTML into PDF reliably at enterprise scale.
##Good fit for audiences who care about
- real implementation details, not just high-level theory
- performance and reliability in document systems
- compliance and accessibility in production software
- lessons from building and maintaining SDK-level PDF tooling
##Invite me to speak
If you're organizing an engineering event, internal meetup, architecture session, or product-focused technical talk, feel free to reach out.