Hey, I'm Laith 👋
Hands-on AI Engineer with 11 years across software engineering, data, and AI. Nine years at AWS architecting solutions for Fortune 500 enterprises. I build things — 20+ full-stack prototypes, production agentic systems, and open-source tools used by millions.
Creator of AWS MCP Servers and leading AWS MCP strategy. I believe the best AI feels like having an expert next to you, not fighting a system.
🚀 What I'm Building
Agentic AI & MCP — Making AI systems that actually do things. Model Context Protocol is how we connect AI to the real world, and I'm driving AWS's open-source efforts here.
Other contributions: Strands Agents SDK • LangChain • Mem0
🛠️ Recent Work
| Project | What I Built |
|---|---|
| Real-time Voice AI | Speech-to-speech system that autonomously calls and books appointments. Claude Haiku + Sonnet orchestration with PSTN integration. |
| Conversational Incident Management | Amazon Q integration for incident response — featured in re:Invent 2024 keynote. |
| GenAI Flight Notifications | RAG + real-time streaming for contextual, personalized notifications. Scaled to 6,000+ flights in 5 months. |
| Predictive Maintenance | Early detection system saving $1M+/year. Simpler interpretable model outperformed complex transformers. |
| GenAI CDK Constructs | Open-source IaC patterns for GenAI apps — featured in Werner Vogels' 2023 keynote, used by 5,000+ customers. |
💡 Tech Stack
GenAI: Agentic AI, LLMs, RAG, MCP, Real-time Voice AI ML: Time series, Computer Vision, NLP, Recommender Systems Data: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, OpenSearch (vector + full-text)
📊 GitHub Stats
🎤 Speaking & Writing
- Publications — Minding the Machines (AI ethics in criminal justice)
- Blog — 8 posts on ML, GenAI, data analytics, and developer tooling
- Conferences — re:Invent, AWS Summits, CERAWeek, local meetups
🤝 Let's Connect
Building with MCP? Thinking about agentic AI? Always happy to chat.
