Rida Al Barazi
Rida Al Barazi is a software architect, product strategist, and two-time founder focused on Rails, AI agents, and developer experience. He’s been building for the web since 2002, co-authored Apress’s Beginning Rails series, and has spoken at conferences across Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. He helps teams ship faster by pairing agentic workflows with reliable, testable software practices.
Montreal 2026 sessions
Agentic Coding: Building Features with AI Teammates
English session - Intermediate
Coding Agents succeed when you give them structure. This session runs like a workshop: we’ll demonstrate how to build a feature with coding agents by defining a spec, managing context, and breaking the work into smaller subtasks. Along the way, you’ll see real prompts, failure cases, and handoff rhythms that keep quality high while boosting delivery speed.
Safe Agentic Dev Environments
English session - Intermediate
Learn how to build a modern development setup where coding agents can safely contribute code, run their own automated and manual tests, and debug bugs before handing changes back to you. We’ll cover dev containers setup, agent coding tools using MCP, and cross-agent pull request reviews. Attendees will see how to make agentic coding a reliable part of day-to-day development.
