Michael Skyba
Co-founder, CTO at Syncretic Labs
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarMichael Skyba is a hands-on technology leader and co-founder serving as CTO with six years of experience building full-stack web and applied AI products. Based in Old Toronto, he currently splits time between leading Syncretic Labs and delivering web and AI systems at RV Metalware Inc, demonstrating an unusual blend of early-stage technical leadership and client-facing engineering. His background includes end-to-end development roles at Insuratix and Royal Cottages, where he moved from feature delivery to shaping architecture and deployment workflows. Known on GitHub for a focus on "increasing leverage," he prioritizes automation and reusable platforms to amplify team impact. Colleagues describe him as entrepreneurial and pragmatic—adept at turning ambiguous requirements into production-ready systems. He brings a founder’s perspective to engineering trade-offs, balancing speed, maintainability, and measurable business outcomes.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (192)
python10
testing10
http10
terminal-app10
exporter10
bundler10
web-development10
backend10
jsx10
javascript10
twitter10
architecture10
youtube10
bun10
html10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
michaelskyba/gopher-tables
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
Multiplayer multiplication race using a Go backend
Contributions:2 PRs, 170 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
golanggobackendmultiplicationbaduk
michaelskyba/hisshi
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:221 pushes, 1 branch, 4 comments in 4 months
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