It started with a Commodore 64 and the certainty that there was something alive inside the machine. Then a 486, then a network, then the internet, then everything changed.
David Micallef has spent over twenty years in education technology, most of them at Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools, where he now leads Applications and Integration Engineering. MACS is one of the largest Catholic school networks in Australia, and keeping its systems connected, secure and useful is the work.
He co-founded Tyrannosoft, a web and AI software development business, because the problems worth solving rarely fit inside a job description.
After hours he builds autonomous AI. AXIOM is the current project: a platform that gives teams a company of AI agents that can research, plan and report.
The through-line from the C64 to now is the same: take the system apart, understand how it actually works, build something better.