The ADR That Gets You Promoted

Hosted by Ehsan Gazar

Tue, May 19, 2026

6:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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From Senior to Staff: Master the Architecture Skills That Get You Promoted
Ehsan Gazar
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What you'll learn

Write a complete ADR from scratch in the session

Use the 3-part format live on a real decision. Leave with a completed ADR and a reusable template for any future choice.

Understand why ADRs signal staff-level thinking

ADRs make your reasoning visible to promotion committees, not just your team. That's what separates senior from staff.

Apply the format immediately to a decision at work

Write your first ADR in the session and leave with a template ready to use in your next design review tomorrow.

Why this topic matters

Most teams make decisions without documenting reasoning. When the engineer who made the call leaves, no one knows why. The next migration costs months. ADRs fix this. They make your architectural thinking visible to stakeholders and promotion committees — and take 10 minutes to write. This session gives you the format and the first rep.

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.”

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