Thu, Jun 18, 2026
6:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
Free to join
Go deeper with a course

Thu, Jun 18, 2026
6:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
Free to join
Go deeper with a course

What you'll learn
Tell normal distributed systems from genuinely new
Name the decisions that matter with an LLM in the path
Reason about reliability and cost like a Staff engineer
Why this topic matters
You'll learn from
Ehsan Gazar
Principal Engineer, 500+ mentees, 16 years in production
I'm a Principal Engineer with 16 years of experience building and scaling production systems across fintech, SaaS, and enterprise software. I've made hundreds of real architectural decisions in systems that had to survive real traffic, incidents, and org politics.
I've run 500+ mentorship sessions with senior engineers at a 5.0 rating, helping them close the gap between writing code and thinking at the architectural level. I've also taught 10,000+ students and distilled what separates engineers who get promoted from those who stay stuck.
I'm not an academic. Every framework here comes from real decisions or mistakes I had to recover from. I’ll teach you to think like a Principal Engineer: not “what’s the right answer,” but “what are the trade-offs, and what survives contact with reality.”