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Laith Al-Saadoon

Author: Laith Al-Saadoon

Laith Al-Saadoon is a Principal AI Engineer at AWS. He created and launched AWS MCP Servers (30M+ PyPI downloads) and contributes to Strands Agents SDK — AWS's open-source framework for building AI agents — along with other agentic AI open-source projects like Mem0 and Agno. He drives AWS's autonomous software development and agentic AI strategy and builds production agentic systems that make agents work for the world's largest companies. In his personal time, Laith enjoys the outdoors — fishing, photography, drone flights, and hiking with his wife.

Build event-driven data quality pipelines with AWS Glue DataBrew

Businesses collect more and more data every day to drive processes like decision-making, reporting, and machine learning (ML). Before cleaning and transforming your data, you need to determine whether it’s fit for use. Incorrect, missing, or malformed data can have large impacts on downstream analytics and ML processes. Performing data quality checks helps identify issues […]

Unite Real-Time and Batch Analytics Using the Big Data Lambda Architecture, Without Servers!

In this post, I show you how you can use AWS services like AWS Glue to build a Lambda Architecture completely without servers. I use a practical demonstration to examine the tight integration between serverless services on AWS and create a robust data processing Lambda Architecture system.