Michael C. Neel is an active community leader who organizes the Knoxville Game Design Meetup, a co-founder and volunteer at the Technology Cooperative, a non-profit focused on technology access and education, and the founder of CodeStock, a community led developer's conference in Knoxville TN.

In Michael's 20+ years as a professional software developer he has developed real-time dashboards, digital media management systems, websites and services, and games for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Xbox. Michael's hobbies include playing, analyzing, and studying video games and game design, photography, cooking, reading fiction and nonfiction books, and playing guitar.

Michael is blessed with three amazing daughters and married to a wife who not only inflates and pops his ego as necessary, but also works with him on his many, many projects.