Melody Ayres-griffiths
Co-Founder at RetroCoders
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMelody Ayres-Griffiths is a serial founder and hands-on technologist with nine years leading RetroCoders and a decade-long history building Paleotronic, focused on teaching coding through vintage computing paradigms. She combines deep systems and support experience—from early roles in systems administration and Apple service—to design curricula and tooling that use classic languages and emulators to accelerate learning of modern languages like Go and Swift. Based in Victoria, BC, she bridges technical operations, educational product design, and community publishing as editor/GM of Paleotronic Magazine. Her work emphasizes learning the “why” behind computing—teaching Assembly, Pascal and BASIC first so learners gain intuition that speeds later language adoption. Melody’s background in hands-on repairs, server administration and tutoring gives her a rare practical perspective on both low-level computing and learner-facing product delivery. She’s known for translating obscure retro-computing knowledge into modern, scalable educational experiences.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bendigo TAFEBelmont Secondary School, Victoria, British ColumbiaMusic Music, Music Music at Vancouver Community College (VCC)
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Github Skills (39)
apple210
react9
emulation9
frontend9
appleii8
disk-image8
javascript8
golang8
inventory-management8
game-engine7
2d-game7
php7
go7
backend7
game-development7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
paleotronic/dskalyzer
Jul 2017 - Dec 2019
DSKalyzer Apple II disk image management tool
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
disk-imageappleiiapple2appleiigsemulation
paleotronic/microm8-gui
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Cross-platform (Windows / macOS / Linux) GUI for the microM8 Apple II Emulator
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 4 pushes in 1 day
linuxmacoswindows
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