As you move into Senior+, Tech Lead, or Engineering Manager roles, your calendar fills up fast, and your time to actually build steadily shrinks. Yet your responsibility for technical outcomes, architectural decisions, and knowledge sharing doesn’t disappear.
This talk shows how an AI-Native Software Development Lifecycle, powered by Kiro, can become a real leverage for senior engineers and engineering leaders.
Through a hands-on story of vibecoding between meetings, we’ll explore a practical setup designed for the challenges that dominate senior roles: problem framing, architectural reasoning, documentation, and alignment. We’ll build a first MCP server / Kiro power and show how AI can amplify impact - helping us learn faster, reduce cognitive load, and keep architecture and documentation in sync with reality, even when hands-on time is scarce.
While the focus is on Senior+ and Engineering Manager workflows, the tools and patterns shown are just as valuable earlier in a career, offering a powerful boost for learning, exploration, and day-to-day development, and you’ll leave with concrete examples and a repeatable blueprint for applying an AI-native SDLC in your own context.