Hi, I'm Myke — the one who started Chaotic Good Tech.

Somehow I've managed to live two careers that don't usually share a résumé.

The creative years

I started out as a working creative. I've had numerous photos published across a range of newspapers, I directed a short film, and — in the interest of full disclosure — I once worked as a lowly production assistant on Toddlers & Tiaras. (shudder) We don't talk about it. Okay, we talk about it a little.

The enterprise years

Then I switched lanes to software engineering and spent more than a decade in enterprise software — or, in other words, earned a PhD in Machiavellian politicking and incessant bureaucracy.

My real home in software is data: databases, how information is shaped and moved, and stitching systems together through integrations. I don't have enough front-end experience to honestly call myself a full-stack developer — but between resourcefulness and a stubborn refusal to leave a problem unsolved, I effectively end up serving as one.

What makes me tick

I'm a resourceful person at heart and I love learning new things — especially when the result is something tangible you can hold, play or use. That goes for code, and for plenty of things that aren't code.

My list of hobbies is endless, but the big ones are:

• Games — playing them, picking them apart, and now making them.
• Tech — tinkering, building, breaking and rebuilding.
• Woodworking — the most tangible kind of making there is.
• Skateboarding.
• Watching hockey.

Why Chaotic Good Tech

I'm a weird, eclectic guy who doesn't really fit any of the stereotypical computer-guy tropes — and CGT is built the same way: a place where creative work and technical work aren't separate worlds. So join me on this wild journey: we'll make rad projects and help folks along the way.