David Yanacek
Senior Principal Engineer and lead advisor on the Agentic AI team at AWS, working on Kiro, frontier agents, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and AWS operational agents with deep experience building developer tools and platforms.
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Feb 26, 2026 • 57min
Amazon’s IDE for Spec-Driven Development with David Yanacek
David Yanacek, Senior Principal Engineer at AWS who builds developer tools and agentic AI like Kiro. He talks about Kiro’s spec-driven AI IDE workflow that captures requirements, produces designs, and breaks work into testable tasks. Topics include spec versioning, property-based testing, steering files and powers, multi-agent coordination, and measuring agent effectiveness.
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Jan 16, 2026 • 29min
How AWS re:Invented the cloud
David Yanacek, Senior Principal Engineer at AWS, shares his extensive expertise in cloud services like SQS and DynamoDB. He debunks the myth that AWS was born from Black Friday, explaining the internal challenges that shaped its services. Discover how he envisions agentic AI, like Kiro, automating tedious DevOps tasks. Yanacek also discusses the evolution of compute with technologies like Lambda and Firecracker, and dives into ensuring reliable traffic management across AWS regions. His insights reveal how innovation is easing developers' operational burdens.
