AI System Design for Full Stack Developers

Part of Forward Deployed Engineering Series

Hosted by Hamza Farooq and Aishwarya Ashok

Tue, Aug 11, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (1 hour)

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Forward Deployed Engineering Bootcamp for Full-Stack Developers
Hamza Farooq
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What you'll learn

Map the 4 layers of agentic harness for your product

Frontend, backend, infrastructure, and AI backend — the fourth layer that's now emerging in every agentic product.

Find the 3 questions that expose an unshipped feature

PII handling, context window limits, retry logic, the exact questions that turned one PM's demo into a Q3 liability.

Spot bugs at the boundaries before they reach spec review

Most production bugs live between layers, not inside one, see how to write acceptance criteria that catch them first.

Why this topic matters

AI-native teams now ship 3–5x faster — but velocity without architectural literacy is how technical debt paralyzes a roadmap six months later. Claude Code has collapsed the time from idea to running code, not the complexity underneath it. This session gives you the full-stack mental model to catch the problem before you own it in Q3.

You'll learn from

Hamza Farooq

Founder | Ex-Google & Walmart Labs |Adjunct UCLA & UMN, SCU | Venture Partner

Hi, I’m Hamza. I’m a founder by day and a professor by night, working at the intersection of Agents and Product Design.

I started Traversaal.ai with a simple goal: to build scalable AI products for startups and enterprises that integrate smoothly into existing systems while staying flexible and cost efficient.

We’ve had the opportunity to work with Fortune 100 companies, and the lessons from those experiences are woven directly into this course.

This course brings together everything I’ve learned in practice, along with the material I teach across universities.

I still spend a lot of time writing code, you can check out my GitHub.

I also share my thoughts and learnings on how organizations should think about moving demos to production grade scale on, The Production Gap: Substack.

Aishwarya Ashok

AI Product Builder | Podcaster, The Founder’s Foyer | Startup Advisor

Hey, I’m Aishwarya, a product builder obsessed with turning ideas into working products, with AI in the mix. Over the last decade across SaaS, I’ve shipped zero-to-one products, scaled product marketing motions, and worked across several domains.


 Beyond work:

→ I host The Founder’s Foyer, a podcast and builder collective where we deconstruct how raw ideas become real-world products

→ I mentor startup founders as a part of incubators and programs like Stanford Seed Spark

→ I tinker with AI + video workflows, expanding the boundaries of GenAI filmmaking and storytelling

→ And when I’m not building, you’ll find me sketching old cities, hosting heritage art walks, and running my tech-led e-commerce brand, Rue Des Arts.


Worked at

Google
Walmart
University of Minnesota
Gallup
Zoho
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