Episode 70: From Code Pipelines to AI Agents - Clare Liguori's Tech Odyssey

Join us for a technical deep dive with Clare Liguori, Senior Principal Engineer at AWS, as she shares insights from her decade-long journey building critical infrastructure at AWS. Learn how Amazon approaches CI/CD at scale, and discover Strands Agents, an innovative open-source SDK that's revolutionizing how developers build AI agents.

Clare reveals how Strands emerged from internal AWS teams' needs and evolved into a powerful tool that's already accelerating development for Amazon Q Developer, AWS Glue, and VPC Reachability Analyzer teams. From reducing agent development time from months to weeks to empowering developers with model-driven approaches, discover how AWS is shaping the future of AI agent development.

Whether you're interested in DevOps practices, AI agent development, or engineering leadership, this episode offers valuable insights into building and scaling transformative technology.