Zahed Heidari
Senior Software Engineer
Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
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I’m a Senior Software Engineer who builds mobile and web products with React Native, Next.js and TypeScript.
At Blue Beck, I’m a core developer on SMARTY’s React Native app, which has reached over one million users. Within the SMARTY team, I’ve been encouraging agentic engineering practices and helping others use AI deliberately while keeping judgement, quality and ownership at the centre of their work.
Outside of client work, I build my own products. I use them to explore how context libraries, intelligent tooling and agentic workflows can make development more effective. Through this work, I’m expanding into AI integration and bringing AI capabilities into the products I create.
I speak at tech conferences and community events about software engineering, AI and the practical use of emerging tools. My aim is to help developers understand what these tools offer, where their limits are and how to adopt them without losing the thinking that makes them good engineers.
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agentic codingCon: Developers Now Have a Second Brain: Learning to Think With AI
AI tools are often presented as a way to write code faster, but their real value may lie in how they help developers think.
In this talk, I shared practical examples of using AI as a reasoning partner during everyday development work — debugging complex issues, navigating unfamiliar systems, and structuring technical decisions when evaluating new approaches.
Instead of focusing on tools or prompt techniques, the session explored the mental models and workflows that allow developers to use AI effectively while staying fully in control of their craft.
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