System Design for AI Agents: Senior vs Staff

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Tue, Jul 21, 2026

5:30 PM UTC (45 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

The failure modes that kill agents in production

The five things that break every LLM agent after the demo, and the design decisions that stop each one.

How to design around a non-deterministic dependency

Retries, fallbacks, guardrails and eval gates: the patterns that make an unreliable model safe to ship in production.

The judgment that separates senior from staff

How to make the architecture call when AI is in the stack, and defend the trade-offs to your team and leadership.

Why this topic matters

94% of engineering leaders now report an agentic AI skills gap. The gap isn't the model, it's production judgment: knowing why agents break under real traffic, and how to design around a non-deterministic dependency. That judgment is what separates senior engineers from staff in 2026. This is the production-grade version of the session 600+ engineers signed up for.

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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