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Clare Liguori

Senior Principal Software Engineer, AWS Agentic AI (at Amazon since 2014), Amazon

  • Senior Principal Software Engineer, AWS Agentic AI (at Amazon since 2014), Amazon Web Services124
  • Core maintainer of the specification, Model Context Protocol13

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.123

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Senior Principal Software Engineer, AWS Agentic AI (at Amazon since 2014) +1 more
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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).15

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.125

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.3

Work and contributions

  • Strands Agents Open-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.213

  • AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) 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.3

Timeline

  1. Joined Amazon after working as a software engineer at Motorola Solutions.1
  2. Published "Automating safe, hands-off deployments" in the Amazon Builders' Library.5
  3. Published "My CI/CD pipeline is my release captain" in the Amazon Builders' Library.5
  4. Introduced Strands Agents, an open-source AI agents SDK, on the AWS Open Source Blog.25
  5. Wrote about steering hooks for agent accuracy on the Strands Agents SDK blog.5
  6. Described how the Kiro agent harness was built on the Kiro blog.5

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  • Software engineer working on WiFi products, Motorola Solutions1

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References

5 sources · profile reviewed Oct 22, 2026 · data updated Oct 22, 2026

  1. Clare Liguori — AboutClare Liguori · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  2. Introducing Strands Agents, an Open Source AI Agents SDK (AWS Open Source Blog)Amazon Web Services · Announcement · published May 16, 2025 · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  3. Clare Liguori — ProjectsClare Liguori · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  4. clareliguori (Clare Liguori) on GitHubGitHub · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  5. Clare Liguori — WritingClare Liguori · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026