
Clare Liguori is a Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she works on all things agentic AI. She primarily focuses on Kiro and Strands Agents SDK. Clare is also a core maintainer for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification.
Liguori is a hands-on AWS Senior Principal Engineer at the center of two of AWS's biggest 2025-2026 developer stories: building the Kiro agentic IDE and spec-driven development, and serving as a core maintainer shaping the Model Context Protocol spec. Attend to hear a practitioner who actually ships these tools talk candidly about where agentic coding and MCP are really heading.
As agentic AI explodes, Amazon doubles down on MCPThe New Stack / MCP Summit NYC · Apr 2026
Keynote: Using Kiro to Build Kiro (Werner Vogels re:Invent 2025 keynote segment)AWS re:Invent 2025 · Dec 2025
Clare Liguori, AWS | AWS re:Invent (theCUBE interview)SiliconANGLE theCUBE at AWS re:Invent 2025 · Dec 2025
Spec-driven development - the future of software developmentKiro Bi-Weekly Show (Livestream) · Aug 2025
From Code Pipelines to AI Agents - Clare Liguori's Tech OdysseyAWS She Builds · Jul 2025Public activity researched automatically · as of Jun 2026