Keith Hutchinson
Associate Director of Technology | AI Workflows, Web Engineering & Mentoring
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Keith Hutchinson is an Associate Director of Technology with more than 20 years of experience building enterprise digital experiences. His background in English, graphic design, and spoken word shapes how he approaches technology: as a technological linguist who connects people, ideas, and systems. A self-taught developer, he brings hands-on experience in front-end engineering, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), React, and mobile development.
His current focus is helping teams work effectively with AI through clear project context, practical specifications, workflow orchestration, and human review. He explores how agentic tools can support engineering while keeping governance, verification, and accountability part of the work. As an AWS Certified AI Practitioner, he continues to develop his cloud and AI expertise.
Keith enjoys building cool things that solve real-world problems. He speaks about AI-native engineering, collaboration between people and agents, and the communication skills that help technical teams succeed. Mentoring technologists and making complex ideas approachable are central to his work.
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Unlocking Success: Nurturing Soft Skills for Web Developers
Did you know that mastering soft skills can be the key to unlocking your full potential as a web developer?
The problem lies in the commonly overlooked aspect of soft skills development among web developers. While technical expertise is crucial, the lack of effective communication, teamwork, adaptability, and problem-solving skills can hinder professional growth and limit career opportunities. This problem affects both individual developers and the organizations they work for, leading to inefficiencies, strained collaborations, and missed opportunities for innovation.
As a seasoned web developer, I have personally experienced the transformative power of nurturing soft skills. In my journey, I discovered the importance of effective communication, the ability to collaborate seamlessly with multidisciplinary teams, and the value of adapting to evolving industry demands. To fix this problem, I propose a holistic approach that combines self-reflection, continuous learning, and targeted skill-building exercises to develop and enhance these essential soft skills.
By attending this talk, you will gain insights into practical strategies and actionable steps to develop your soft skills as a web developer. You will learn the art of effective communication, how to foster collaborative relationships, and techniques for adapting to rapidly changing technology landscapes. Armed with this knowledge, you will be equipped to navigate challenges, enhance your professional reputation, and unlock your full potential in the web development industry.
AI-Native Engineer
What does an AI agent need before it can make a useful change to your project? In this guided session, Keith Hutchinson walks through a practical way to give an agent context, a clear task, and boundaries for its work.
Using the M.A.S.C.O.T. framework, we’ll build a project briefing in AGENTS.md and a focused task specification in spec.md. Along the way, we’ll look at observable acceptance criteria, review evidence, and decisions that should come back to a human.
You’ll leave with a repeatable approach you can adapt to your next small change: brief the agent, define the work, review its approach, and check the result.
40-minute guided presentation for a mixed technical and nontechnical audience. No setup or coding required from attendees. Includes six minutes of presenter-led construction and three minutes of critique, with prepared examples for a quiet room.
Web MCP: Building Websites for People and Agents
How can a website serve people and support the agents helping them? Keith Hutchinson and Sean Dees explore web experiences that are understandable, discoverable, and usable by both.
The session considers accessibility, clear labels and information structure, and how WebMCP can complement existing MCP tools with structured ways for agents to interact with a website. It also examines boundaries for reliable actions and where human approval belongs.
Joint presentation with Sean Dees.
THRIVE 2026
Upcoming speaking engagement at BLK Men in Tech’s THRIVE 2026, October 11–13 at Gilley’s Dallas in Dallas, Texas.
AI-Native Engineer: A guided presentation on using the M.A.S.C.O.T. framework, AGENTS.md and spec.md to give AI agents useful project context, clear tasks and boundaries. Covers observable acceptance criteria, verification and human review.
Web MCP: Building Websites for People and Agents: A joint presentation with Sean Dees on web experiences that work for people and the agents helping them. Explores accessibility, clear information structure, structured interactions through WebMCP and boundaries for reliable actions and human approval.
Atlanta Tech Week 2026
Co-presented Building AI Teammates with Amazon Bedrock with Sean Dees at the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs in Atlanta. This hands-on workshop explored how to use Amazon Bedrock and Claude Code in real software development workflows, with team standards, reusable patterns for documentation, security reviews and testing, and governance, observability and human-in-the-loop review. Presented by WPP Enterprise Solutions as part of Atlanta Tech Week 2026.
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