Spec Stacking & Software Factories

Hosted by Amir Feizpour and Owen Zanzal

Fri, May 29, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

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Amir Feizpour, PhD
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What you'll learn

From Prompts to Contracts

Why prompts alone fail and how specs create enforceable guarantees for AI systems.

What Spec Stacking Is

How to decompose engineering practices into composable, layered specifications.

Bridging Design and Execution

Using ADRs, BDRs, and verifiers to connect architecture, behavior, and runtime validation.

Building a Software Factory

How structured specs turn AI into a repeatable system for producing reliable software.

Integrating into CI/CD

Practical approaches for embedding spec-driven workflows into existing pipelines.

Why this topic matters

AI-assisted development is rapidly becoming standard, but most teams are still operating in a fragile, prompt-driven mode that does not scale to production. Spec Stacking offers a path to disciplined, repeatable system design where correctness, observability, and architecture are enforced rather than inferred. This shift is critical for teams that want large-scale AI-driven engineering.

You'll learn from

Amir Feizpour

Founder @ Aggregate Intellect

Amir Feizpour is the founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Aggregate Intellect building a generative business brain for service and science based companies. Amir has built and grown a global community of 5000+ AI practitioners and researchers gathered around topics in AI research, engineering, product development, and responsibility. Prior to this, Amir was an NLP Product Lead at Royal Bank of Canada. Amir held a research position at University of Oxford conducting experiments on quantum computing resulting in high profile publications and patents. Amir holds a PhD in Physics from University of Toronto. Amir also serves the AI ecosystem as an advisor at MaRS Discovery District, works with several startups as fractional chief AI officer, and engages with a wide range of community audiences (business executives to hands-on developers) through training and educational programs. Amir leads Aggregate Intellect’s R&D via several academic collaborations.

Owen Zanzal

Principal Cloud and Agentic Ops Engineer @ Shoplogix

Owen Zanzal is a Principal Cloud and Agentic Ops Engineer with over a decade of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and automation. He focuses on applying DevOps principles to AI systems—pioneering “AgenticOps” practices for deploying, monitoring, and improving agents in production . Owen has led initiatives across scalable cloud architecture, CI/CD, and developer experience, helping teams build reliable, cost-efficient systems while bridging traditional infrastructure with emerging agent-driven workflows

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