The Senior Engineer's Playbook for the Agentic Era

Software Engineering
Isn't Dying. It's Being Reborn.

The engineers and companies that learn to architect with AI agents — not just use AI tools — will dominate the next decade. I help you make that shift.

23 years building systems at

Credit Suisse UBS HSBC Thoughtworks Neon Labs

The Ground Is Shifting
Under Your Feet

AI isn't replacing engineers. It's replacing engineers who refuse to become architects.

For Engineers

You've spent years mastering your craft. Now every headline says AI is coming for your job. Cursor, Copilot, Devin, Claude Code — they write code faster than you can type. But here's what nobody is telling you: the engineers who understand how to architect systems around AI agents are becoming the most valuable people in every organization.

The gap isn't between "AI users" and "non-AI users." It's between engineers who use AI as a fancy autocomplete and engineers who design entire systems where AI agents own workflows end-to-end.

Learn to architect with AI

For IT Services Companies

Your clients are asking why they need a team of 20 when an AI agent can scaffold an entire microservice in minutes. Your competitors are already restructuring. The firms that survive won't be the ones that "add AI to their pitch deck."

They'll be the ones that fundamentally re-architect how they deliver software — with AI agents embedded into every phase of the SDLC. This isn't about replacing your people. It's about making each engineer 10x more effective through AI-native architecture.

Transform your delivery model

From Manual Coding to AI-Native Architecture

I don't teach prompt engineering. I teach the architectural thinking required to build software in a world where AI agents are first-class participants in your system — not afterthoughts.

01

System Architect Mindset

Stop thinking about "writing code faster with AI." Start designing systems where AI agents own entire workflows — with proper guardrails, fallback mechanisms, and quality gates that you design.

02

Agentic Design Patterns

Agent orchestration, tool-use architectures, human-in-the-loop systems, RAG pipelines, and multi-agent coordination. These are the design patterns of the next decade.

03

Quality Engineering Layer

AI agents generate code fast. But who ensures it's correct, secure, and maintainable? You do. Build automated validation pipelines and testing frameworks designed for AI-generated code.

04

Production-Grade AI Systems

Demo apps are easy. Production is hard. Observability for AI agents, cost management, latency optimization, failure recovery — the operational concerns that separate toys from real systems.

05

Domain-Driven AI Architecture

The engineers who thrive will combine deep domain knowledge with AI orchestration skills. Learn how to translate business domains into AI-native architectures that solve real problems — not just generate boilerplate. Whether it's fintech, healthcare, or SaaS, domain expertise becomes your unfair advantage.

I've Lived Every Era of
Software Engineering

From C/C++ in 2000 to Solana ZK proofs today. I didn't just observe paradigm shifts — I led them inside major organizations.

23+
Years shipping production software
$1B+
TVL in DeFi protocols architected
3
Published technical books
CS + MBA
MS in CS (CU Boulder) & MBA (USP)
MIT
MicroMasters in Statistics & Data Science
UCLA
Executive Leadership Program

Books by Luis Soares

Deep technical knowledge, distilled into practical guides for engineers making the transition.

Rust Ownership

From Basics to Real-world Projects

From OOP to Idiomatic Rust

A Mental Model Shift for Experienced Developers

First Steps with Zig

Hands-On Modern Systems Programming

Common Questions

No. Tools come and go — Copilot, Cursor, Devin will all be replaced eventually. What I teach is the architectural thinking that transcends any specific tool: how to design systems where AI agents are first-class participants, how to build quality gates and observability for AI-generated code, and how to structure teams and workflows around agentic AI. This is the skill set that compounds over time.
This is specifically designed for experienced engineers. Your seniority is actually your biggest advantage — you already understand system design, distributed systems, and production constraints. What you need is a framework for applying that knowledge in an AI-native context. Junior engineers learning prompt engineering are not your competition. Senior engineers who can architect entire AI-native systems are the future.
For individual engineers, I offer structured programs focused on career transformation — learning AI-native architecture, agentic design patterns, and positioning yourself for Staff/Principal roles. For companies, I work hands-on with leadership and engineering teams to redesign delivery models, restructure teams, upskill engineers at scale, and build competitive positioning around AI-native services.
23 years of shipping production systems at Credit Suisse, UBS, HSBC, Thoughtworks, and Neon Labs. 3 published technical books. An MS in Computer Science, Applied Cryptography specialization, MIT MicroMasters, MBA, and UCLA Executive Leadership. I've navigated every major paradigm shift — from monoliths to microservices, on-prem to cloud, Web2 to Web3. I'm not a content creator who codes. I'm an engineer who creates content.
AI will replace some engineering tasks — the same way compilers replaced assembly programmers and cloud replaced sysadmins. But it won't replace engineers who can architect complex systems, understand business domains deeply, and make judgment calls about quality, security, and trade-offs. The engineers who learn to orchestrate AI agents will be exponentially more productive than those who don't. That's not a threat — it's the biggest career opportunity in a generation.

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