Principal Engineer · 16+ years
Helping engineers take LLM and agent systems from demo to production.
Architecture, evaluations, observability, failure handling, cost and latency: the parts a demo never has to answer for.
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AI Transformation for Organisational Leaders
For directors, heads of function and founders: eight live evening sessions with Ehsan Gazar and Anoosh Zeighami, ending with a one-page 2027 AI plan for your organisation, built on a real workflow and ready for your leadership team.
Starts Wed, 4 Nov · 7:00pm London · live on Zoom
$1,495, or $1,045 with code EARLYBIRD until 23 Oct.
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What engineers say
29+ engineers and colleagues, sharing what changed after we worked together.
“Ehsan is a great developer who brings a wealth of experience and skill. He is very self-motivated and can deliver any piece of work, regardless of complexity. Ehsan has a real passion for learning and sharing what he knows with everyone else in the team. He's a real asset to any organization”
“Working with Ehsan has been a blast! Ehsan has done an excellent job as the JavaScript Developer at Round Table Apps. He is also very attentive to details and creative in creating an engaging experience. I would highly recommend Ehsan as an invaluable asset to any organisation or team.”
“Ehsan is a great asset to any team. He is very knowledgeable and a team player. He goes the extra mile to get the job done and is always looking for ways to improve team dynamics. It was a pleasure working with him on several projects.”
More ways to learn
- Self-paced coursesFive self-paced courses, $99 to $299, from clean code and system design to LLM and agent systems.Browse courses →
- 1:1 mentorshipCareer, system-design judgment, and the path from senior to staff and principal.See programs →
- Writing & podcastHundreds of deep-dives on architecture, plus the Breakpoint podcast.Read the latest →
- Persian coursesThe Farsi side of the site: eight video courses on JavaScript, React, Node and code quality, plus writing in Persian.Open the Persian site →
Read what your agents did. Keep your hands in the code.
Marlin
An open-source terminal for running coding agents. See what each one changed, read the diff, then stage and commit without leaving it. No account, no telemetry.
See Marlin →Coding
One TypeScript problem, written from memory against hidden tests, on a schedule that brings it back just before you would have forgotten it. No account needed to try one.
Latest writing
The AI System Works. So Why Is Nobody Using It?
Your AI tool passed every test, yet people still work the old way. Adoption is a change in behaviour, and it has to be led like one.
If AI Had Existed When Your Workflow Was Designed, Would It Look Like This?
Your team added AI to one step and the work arrives no sooner. The workflow itself is built on old constraints, and that is what needs redesigning.
AI Transformation Is Not Digital Transformation With a New Tool
Your AI plan looks like your last digital programme: a tool, a rollout, a go-live date. What carries over, what breaks, and what to run instead.
Your AI Pilot Saved Time. Why Didn't the Business Change?
Your AI pilot made one step faster, but the results did not move. The cause is usually the slowest step, and what you did with the time.
A Chatbot Answers. An Agent Does the Work. Here Is the Difference
Vendors call everything an agent. Here is what each step from chatbot to agent adds, and how much supervision each one needs from you.
Why AI Can Crack a 90-Year-Old Maths Problem and Still Get Your Invoice Wrong
AI can do brilliant work and still fail a simple task. Leaders need to separate what it can do from whether they can depend on it.
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What other engineers have been reading in the last seven days.
Lefthook vs Husky: Why I Switched and Never Looked Back
Lefthook replaces Husky and lint-staged with a single Go binary, parallel hook execution, and built-in file filtering. Here is why I switched and kept going.
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Replaced ESLint with oxlint in a React TypeScript project and cut lint time from 12 seconds to under one. What I traded away and whether it was worth it.
OpenClaw: The Self-Hosted AI Assistant That Treats Intelligence as Infrastructure
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The Innovator's Dilemma: Why Doing Everything Right Gets You Killed
Clayton Christensen showed why good engineering teams build irrelevant products. The paradox of listening to your best customers, and how to stop ignoring the toy technologies that will eventually replace you.
Monorepo Tools Compared: NX, Turborepo, Bazel, and Rush
Compare the leading monorepo tools: NX, Turborepo, Bazel, Rush, and PNPM workspaces. Choose the right fit for your team size, stack, and build needs.
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Where to start
The deep dives I'd point a senior engineer at first, grouped by topic.
SQL, from SELECT to subqueries
Worked SQLZoo solutions, joins, aggregates, GROUP BY vs HAVING, and subqueries — the queries interviewers actually ask.
9 deep dives · Start reading →
Database performance & scaling
Indexes, query optimisation, sharding, replication and normalization — how to make a database fast and keep it fast.
8 deep dives · Start reading →Modern TypeScript tooling
Why oxlint replaced ESLint, pnpm vs npm, Lefthook vs Husky, and the Rust/Go shift in the frontend toolchain.
6 deep dives · Start reading →
Data structures in TypeScript
Arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, tries, graphs, heaps and hash tables — implemented and explained in TypeScript.
12 deep dives · Start reading →
Sorting & searching algorithms
Insertion, selection, merge and quick sort, plus binary and substring search — the classic algorithms, step by step.
6 deep dives · Start reading →
Design systems in practice
What a design system really is (per Atlassian), how Dropbox and Netflix build theirs, and how to roll out an internal UI component library.
6 deep dives · Start reading →
Scaling & system architecture
Horizontal vs vertical scaling, capacity estimation, resilience patterns and the architecture principles behind systems that grow.
6 deep dives · Start reading →
X vs Y: engineering trade-offs
Head-to-head breakdowns — oxlint vs ESLint, REST vs GraphQL, SQL vs NoSQL, Svelte/Preact vs React — with the trade-offs that decide it.
12 deep dives · Start reading →