#472 Teaching Infrastructure from Experience with Keith Townsend, Principal & Co-Founder of The CTO Advisor

Today we’re talking to Keith Townsend, Principal and Co-Founder of the CTO Advisor, and we discuss how Keith has taken on infrastructure modernization projects so he can experience the pain involved and better teach about it, why it is critical to be mindful of technical debt you are taking on, and how the infrastructure team can best support developers at a company. 

All of this right here, right now, on the ModernCTO Podcast! 

Learn more about Keith's work with The CTO Advisor at https://thectoadvisor.com

About Keith Townsend:

Keith Townsend is a technology management consultant with more than 20 years of related experience in designing, implementing, and managing data center technologies. His areas of expertise include virtualization, networking, and storage solutions for Fortune 500 organizations. He holds a BA in computing and an MS in information technology from DePaul University.

About The CTO Advisor:

Keith Townsend started The CTO Advisor LLC back in 2016 in an effort to create a job that didn’t exist at the time. Keith loves telling stories and helping IT decision-makers navigate an ever-changing landscape that at the time included OpenStack, Containers, and the hopes of deploying a private cloud. The CTO Advisor was born to guide organizations via advisory services. The team discovered an insatiable appetite for new-media content addressing many of these challenges.

Keith and Melissa pivoted the business to embrace the focus on research and new media. We’ve been rewarded by creating innovative research around hybrid infrastructure, which powers the advisory business. In turn, our advisory projects feed the research that powers the content.