Speaking
Talks built from production work: what was tried, what it cost and what I would do differently. Conference sessions, meetups and internal engineering days.
Invite me to speakPast talks
June 2026
How GitLab saved 90% in engineering costs by keeping AI inside Snowflake
Snowflake Summit 2026, San Francisco, with Radovan Baćović
Processing 75,000+ Zendesk tickets for about $1,500 with Cortex AI, against a $73,000+ a year external pipeline.
June 2026
Beyond passwords: strong authentication for Snowflake workloads
Snowflake Summit 2026, San Francisco
October 2025
Talk to your data: natural language analytics with Snowflake Cortex
DSC DACH
June 2025
Siphon: a modern data stack with Snowflake, ClickHouse and Iceberg
Berlin Buzzwords
Topics I am speaking on now
Each can run as a 30-minute talk or a longer workshop.
- Real-time CDC into Iceberg and Snowflake
- Keeping AI spend predictable with in-warehouse governance
- Semantic layers that both people and LLMs can trust
- Deterministic guardrails for AI coding agents on data platforms