Ilia Alshanetsky
Over the last 20+ years Ilia has been heavily involved in development of PHP, as a Core Developer and Release Master, authoring many extensions and language improvements. In parallel with this Ilia has been a long-time CTO leading & growing engineering team across several companies, in everything from automotive, home services and personal fitness spaces and more recently healthcare space.
Montreal 2027 sessions
Improving Performance via PHP Extensions
English session - Beginner
The purpose of this talk would be to introduce a number of PHP extension designed to speed up applications by moving logic from PHP to C extensions that can be used from PHP. More specifically the talk will cover fast UUID generation, Markdown parsing, Excel reading/writing, JSON parsing and data Serialization.
Security in the age of AI
English session - Intermediate
Security reviews of PHP applications still depend on code review, static analysis, dependency audits, and expert judgment. AI can speed up that work. You can use it to scan large codebases, explain suspicious code, draft patches, and surface issues traditional tools may miss, while keeping the tools you already trust.
