Sebastian Bergmann at the lectern at Forum PHP 2026. The screen behind him announces his talk “Speed is a byproduct of trust”.

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Modern PHP Development

This presentation reveals how to harness the ongoing evolution of PHP syntax as well as the rise of advanced developer tools for cleaner code, stronger testing, and ultimately higher-quality applications.

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About me

I am Sebastian Bergmann. I started writing PHPUnit in 2000 and still maintain it. In the same year I gave my first talk at a PHP conference. As a co-founder of thePHP.cc, I help teams in training courses and through consulting and coaching with everything related to PHPUnit, with quality gates for working with LLM-based coding agents, and with supply chain security.

I helped start the PHP Foundation and serve on its board. I have also represented the interests of Open Source at the European Commission and am active in the Open Source working group of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik).

Where you can meet me next is listed under events. The next dates of my training courses are in the training overview.

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