I am a Creative Technologist with over a decade of experience spanning development, technical leadership, and digital strategy. My work bridges the gap between people, design, and technology. Connecting business needs with creative and technical delivery. Having worked as both a Frontend Developer and CTO, I bring a unique perspective that balances hands-on coding expertise with leadership and strategy. I have delivered websites, web applications, and digital platforms for a diverse range of clients across agency, in-house product, and not-for-profit sectors. I want to build fulfilling relationships with humans doing their best work on projects that really matter. When I'm not building websites or providing technical leadership and digital strategy you'll find me off-grid and as far away from screens and signals as my bare feet will take me and my kids (8 & 10). We live just north of Byron Bay in the beautiful Northern Rivers region of NSW, Australia. Bundjalung and Yugambeh country.

Mischa Colley

I am a Creative Technologist with over a decade of experience spanning development, technical leadership, and digital strategy. My work bridges the gap between people, design, and technology. Connecting business needs with creative and technical delivery. Having worked as both a Frontend Developer and CTO, I bring a unique perspective that balances hands-on coding expertise with leadership and strategy. I have delivered websites, web applications, and digital platforms for a diverse range of clients across agency, in-house product, and not-for-profit sectors. I want to build fulfilling relationships with humans doing their best work on projects that really matter. When I'm not building websites or providing technical leadership and digital strategy you'll find me off-grid and as far away from screens and signals as my bare feet will take me and my kids (8 & 10). We live just north of Byron Bay in the beautiful Northern Rivers region of NSW, Australia. Bundjalung and Yugambeh country.

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I am a Creative Technologist with over a decade of experience spanning development, technical leadership, and digital strategy. My work bridges the gap between people, design, and technology. Connecting business needs with creative and technical delivery. Having worked as both a Frontend Developer and CTO, I bring a unique perspective that balances hands-on coding expertise with leadership and strategy. I have delivered websites, web applications, and digital platforms for a diverse range of clients across agency, in-house product, and not-for-profit sectors. I want to build fulfilling relationships with humans doing their best work on projects that really matter. When I’m not building websites or providing technical leadership and digital strategy you’ll find me off-grid and as far away from screens and signals as my bare feet will take me and my kids (8 & 10). We live just north of Byron Bay in the beautiful Northern Rivers region of NSW, Australia. Bundjalung and Yugambeh country.

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Work Experience

Co-Founder at ulak
January 1, 2024 - October 20, 2025
I co-founded a collective of UX, UI & Frontend Designers, Developers, Software Engineers, Creative Technologists and more that create good digital experiences that put people and planet first. Some client projects included Verve (Super & Money), Human Nature Adventure Therapy, Friend of the Koala and Storyboard by Byron Writers Festival.
Chief Technology Officer at AIME
September 1, 2020 - October 20, 2025
I managed the outsourcing of projects and then grew the internal tech team from just me to a fully remote team of 11+ across 5 time zones and professional practices covering Design, Engineering, IT and Data.
Frontend Developer at AIME
October 1, 2017 - October 20, 2025
I quickly demonstrated what a modern web dev and systems approach was capable of. Rebuilding aimementoring.com into a modern CMS powered web experience, built an App MVP, overhauled web infrastructure and introduced new tech and IT systems.
Front-End Developer & Business Owner at Exposé Creative
January 1, 2019 - October 20, 2025
As a freelancer I helped businesses interact and transact with their customers by providing knowledge and simple tools to make the web work for them.
Front-End Developer at bwired
November 1, 2016 - October 20, 2025
I developed sites for the likes of Staples and Nintendo that were built on a custom PHP CMS (Core DNA) and I also led a refactor of the Core DNA SEO module to improve it’s technical SEO application in our clients sites.
Lead Web Developer at Coronis Group
June 1, 2016 - October 20, 2025
I was responsible for leading development and maintenance on a number of different web properties in the Real Estate space and improving processes and development practices with the intent of growing the internal team.
Frontend Developer at Brand New Media
November 1, 2015 - October 20, 2025
This was my first full time remote gig where I worked in a distributed team where I worked in a Rails environment on responsive design, performance and authoring modular interfaces with Haml, Sass and CoffeeScript.
Developer at Orange Digital
November 1, 2014 - October 20, 2025
At Orange I took all my hours of practice and learning and really levelled up as a developer building more WordPress and Drupal sites than I could count. I lead our first responsive redesigns and introduced best practices like the use of GIT.
Front-End Developer at Netengine
October 1, 2011 - October 20, 2025
I was responsible for the design, maintenance and updating of portal sites and job sites that were part of two Ruby on Rails Applications. I worked primarily with GIT, HTML, CSS and JavaScript along with a little work in Photoshop and Illustrator.
Fractional CTO at Rainbow Power Company
January 1, 2023 - Present
I helped them decouple their website from a legacy system and replatform it on Shopify. I then continued with a digital transformation project introducing new tooling, automation and leveling up processes to work with new systems.
Fractional CTO at We Are Explorers
February 1, 2023 - Present
I love exploring this magnificent country (Australia) and you'll often find me barefoot and as far away from any screen or signal as I can get. On the days I do work, it's very nice to get to incrementally improving their websites and provide strategic digital support.
Creative Technologist at Mischa Colley
July 1, 2020 - Present
In addition to the projects I took on as part of ulak, I also did some solo or with other groups. These included projects for Digital Village, StartSomeGood, Populares as well as Today.
Tech Lead at Today Design
September 1, 2025 - October 20, 2025
I spent 9 months with my friends at Today delivering human-centered technology solutions. Some of these in high-pressure contexts for government clients. The role has involved people management and coding with lots of modern tech. Plenty of React (Next.js), Typescript, Tailwind, Storybook and using GraphQL with Craft CMS.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Interactive & Visual Design) / Bachelor of Information Technology at Queensland University of Technology
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2013
Web Design & Development at Curtin University
January 1, 2008 - January 1, 2009
High School Certificate at Cape Byron Rudolf Steiner School
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2006

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Industry Experience

Non-Profit Organization, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet

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