Shivam Dev

Shivam Dev is Chief Technology Officer at Frontdoor Labs, the London AI lab behind Ordecto, a workspace that checks and repairs PDF accessibility. Ordecto tags documents in reading order, describes figures, rebuilds tables, lists and forms, writes PDF/UA-1 (ISO 14289-1) and retests every file with veraPDF against the Matterhorn Protocol, keeping the machine results and the reviewer’s decisions apart.

Shivam leads Ordecto’s tagging engine and its preparation for PDF/UA-2 and Well-Tagged PDF. He was previously VP of Engineering at Striga (Y Combinator W21), a fintech infrastructure company, and built document and knowledge systems at Otio. He joined the PDF Association in October 2026 to take part in the PDF/UA and PDF reuse work and to bring what an automated remediation tool learns from real-world documents back to the technical working groups.