
Katelyn Lesse leads engineering for the Claude Platform at Anthropic. She writes about software development, testing, and human-plus-agent software teams.
Katelyn Lesse is Head of Engineering for the Claude Platform at Anthropic, leading the APIs, SDKs, and infrastructure that power Claude agents in production, and a driving voice behind making agents genuinely capable through context management, MCP, memory, and sandboxed code execution. Attending her session offers an inside view of how the team building the Claude platform thinks about the next generation of agentic systems at scale.
Katelyn Lesse – Evolving Claude APIs for Agents, AnthropicAI Engineer Code Summit 2025 · Nov 2025
Code with Claude 2026: Opening KeynoteCode with Claude San Francisco 2026 · May 2026
Code with Claude London 2026: Opening KeynoteCode with Claude London 2026 · May 2026
Building the future of agents with ClaudeAnthropic · Oct 2025Public activity researched automatically · as of Jun 2026