With over 20 years of delivering and architecting sociotechnical systems, Wesley Reisz has led the technical delivery of multi-million dollar software projects, chaired numerous software conferences across North America (and the United Kingdom), created a highly respected podcast, and spent over a decade teaching 400-level software architecture/programming courses as an adjunct professor. These experiences have given him deep expertise in software architecture, cloud-native engineering, team topologies, and platform thinking (alongside a broad knowledge of different software domains).
Wes is a Technical Principal at Thoughtworks, where he specializes in reducing complexity in software through systems thinking, application modernization, platform engineering, and AI-First Software Delivery. Embodying the concept of a T-shaped engineer (blending broad expertise across a wide range of software domains with deep technical knowledge of the cloud-native ecosystem), Wes strongly believes in the transformative power of sharing knowledge through speaking, teaching, and continuous learning.
Upcoming conference sessions featuring Wes Reisz
Agents Amplify Architecture: Five Habits for the Agentic Era
AI agents write code faster than ever, but that doesn't necessarily mean teams are shipping faster. Code is no longer the bottleneck. The constraints have shifted to deciding what to build, verifying it, integrating it, and getting it to production.
Agents amplify the systems they operate within. A system with clear boundaries and fast feedback gets faster. A tangled one gets tangled faster.
The engineering principles we learned in the microservices era (reducing cognitive load, building better platforms, and creating paved roads to production) matter more now, not less.
Drawing on my experience delivering agentic sociotechnical systems at Thoughtworks, I'll share five practical habits for agentic development: clarify intent before implementation, shift verification left, engineer the agent’s environment, establish architectural guardrails, and work in small batches. Each comes with a Monday action you can put into practice immediately.
The goal isn't more code. It's better software, delivered faster.
Get conference pass
Agents Amplify Architecture: Five Habits for the Agentic Era
AI agents write code faster than ever, but that doesn't necessarily mean teams are shipping faster. Code is no longer the bottleneck. The constraints have shifted to deciding what to build, verifying it, integrating it, and getting it to production.
Agents amplify the systems they operate within. A system with clear boundaries and fast feedback gets faster. A tangled one gets tangled faster.
The engineering principles we learned in the microservices era (reducing cognitive load, building better platforms, and creating paved roads to production) matter more now, not less.
Drawing on my experience delivering agentic sociotechnical systems at Thoughtworks, I'll share five practical habits for agentic development: clarify intent before implementation, shift verification left, engineer the agent’s environment, establish architectural guardrails, and work in small batches. Each comes with a Monday action you can put into practice immediately.
The goal isn't more code. It's better software, delivered faster.
Get conference pass
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