Clare Liguori
AWS Senior Principal Software Engineer on Kiro and Strands Agents; core maintainer of the MCP spec
- Senior Principal Software Engineer, AWS Agentic AI (at Amazon since 2014), Amazon Web Services154
- Core maintainer of the specification, Model Context Protocol12
Clare Liguori is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services, working on developer tooling and agentic AI with a focus on Kiro and the Strands Agents SDK. Liguori wrote AWS's May 2025 post introducing Strands Agents as an open-source AI agents SDK, and is a core maintainer of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification. Liguori joined Amazon in 2014 and earlier worked on AWS Proton, Amazon ECS and the AWS Code Suite.152
Career
Liguori worked as a software engineer at Motorola Solutions on WiFi products before joining Amazon in 2014. At AWS, Liguori worked on AWS Proton, Amazon ECS and the AWS Code Suite, and wrote for the Amazon Builders' Library on automating safe, hands-off deployments (2020) and on CI/CD pipelines as release captains (2022).13
Liguori is now a Senior Principal Software Engineer working on developer tooling and agentic AI, focused on Kiro and the Strands Agents SDK. In 2026 Liguori wrote about building the Kiro agent harness and about steering hooks for agent accuracy on the Strands Agents blog.153
Open-source work
Liguori is a core maintainer of the Model Context Protocol specification and of Agent Plugins, and published a library for running stdio-based MCP servers in AWS Lambda. Earlier open-source work includes contributions to the AWS CDK, an authentication library and AWS Proton plugin for Backstage, and the Amazon ECS plugin for Spinnaker, where Liguori co-led the Spinnaker AWS SIG.2
Work
Strands AgentsOpen-source code
Wrote the May 2025 AWS Open Source Blog post introducing Strands Agents, an open-source SDK for building AI agents; Liguori's site names the Strands Agents SDK as a main focus.512
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Contributor to various AWS service modules in the AWS CDK, a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in programming languages such as TypeScript.2
Career timeline
2014
Joined Amazon after working as a software engineer at Motorola Solutions.1
Jun 18, 2020
Published "Automating safe, hands-off deployments" in the Amazon Builders' Library.3
Oct 1, 2022
Published "My CI/CD pipeline is my release captain" in the Amazon Builders' Library.3
May 16, 2025
Introduced Strands Agents, an open-source AI agents SDK, on the AWS Open Source Blog.53
Mar 18, 2026
Wrote about steering hooks for agent accuracy on the Strands Agents SDK blog.3
Aug 3, 2026
Described how the Kiro agent harness was built on the Kiro blog.3
Other documented roles
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- Software engineer working on WiFi products, Motorola Solutions1
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