Steve Townsend SVP, Engineering

Steve Townsend

SVP, Engineering

Steve leads the development and delivery of Instructure’s products. Before joining Instructure in 2015, he spent 20+ years leading engineering teams and providing consulting services for technology companies like Intel, Novell, Veracity Solutions, and inContact. Steve has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and an MBA from Brigham Young University. 

More From Steve Townsend

Jul 13, 2023
From the Engineering Desk: Insight Into Our Current Experiments
As the SVP of Engineering at Instructure, AI integration and capability is top of mind. I’d like to share some of my thoughts on AI with you as we continuously explore this new technology and how it can benefit students and educators everywhere.  With AI, Context Matters  To get value out of AI like ChatGPT, sending the right prompt makes a big difference. An AI Prompt is any form of information–like text, a question or code–that tells AI what you are looking for. The better the prompt and Read More...
Jan 18, 2021
Hiring for Diversity in Engineering
When I was growing up in the Bay Area, only a few kids had access to computers to learn to program. I was one of those fortunate kids. And when I looked around the room of the computer club in my junior high, everybody looked like me. Recently, I visited a local high school computer science class, and it was clear that there's been a slight change. There were a few young women and Latinx students in the class. But even though computing resources are more ubiquitous and programming platforms Read More...

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