Principal AI Engineer in AWS Developer Tools, Houston, Texas. I work on one idea, the autonomous work horizon: how long an AI agent can work on its own before a person has to step in. I run my own fleet of agents every day, measure that number, and try to make it longer.
My customers are the AI agents that build on AWS, and the people and companies behind them. I work with the field and with the companies that make coding assistants so whatever agent a customer already uses builds well on AWS, I turn what I learn into prescriptive guidance (instrumented open source, evals, and reference implementations that show one recommended path), and I carry what the field teaches me back to engineering.
Long-form writing lives at laithalsaadoon.com as the Frontier Field Notes.
AWS MCP Servers, the open-source Model Context Protocol servers for AWS, now past tens of millions of PyPI downloads. I created the project and led AWS MCP strategy.
| Repo | What it is |
|---|---|
| microvms-agentd | Exec and file-transfer daemon for AWS Lambda MicroVMs (Firecracker), with Rust, Python and Node bindings and a 75-check conformance suite. Agent sandboxes in your own account. |
| lambda-microvm-sandbox | createLambdaSandbox() for the Vercel AI SDK harness, so the sandbox runs on Lambda MicroVMs under your network policy. Article. |
| erpaval | Explore, Research, Plan, Act, Validate, Compound: the loop my coding agents run inside, with a lessons store that carries forward between sessions. |
Earlier: the Generative AI CDK Constructs shown in Werner Vogels' re:Invent 2023 keynote, the PagerDuty and Amazon Q incident integration in Matt Garman's re:Invent 2024 keynote, and United Airlines' "Every Flight Has a Story" notifications on Amazon Bedrock and Claude. At AWS since 2016; before that one of the first ten at Onica (later Rackspace); before that a genomics lab.
- Site and Frontier Field Notes: https://laithalsaadoon.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laithalsaadoon
- AWS Builder Center: https://builder.aws.com/community/@lalsaado