Nathan Keilar

Nathan is the Founder, Director and Chief Technical Officer at the Hunted Hive. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Micro Electrical Engineering, and  Honours in Computer Science from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

Nathan has personal experience creating startups. He is a ‘serial entrepreneur’ who has created several startup companies, including: 

• Noshly: An ethical food application 
• The Swarm: Coworking space and virtual assistance service 
• The Hunted Hive: Website and application development agency, ideas lab and business incubator.
• (Plus a couple more projects which are currently in development)

Nathan majored in Software Development as part of his degree in Micro Electronic Engineering. During this time, he ventured outside the set curriculum and studied philosophy, biotechnology, advanced machine learning (in Germany), the application of multi-agent systems for the distributed grid, German, Japanese, and the theory and practice of social and environmental change.

While developing embedded mesh network hardware and software as an Electrical Engineer, Nathan saw an opportunity and formulated his own company to harness advances in web technology

Since its’ inception in 2011, the Hunted Hive has dramatically evolved from humble beginnings as a team of two. Currently, the company has over 16 team members who have diverse backgrounds in: website design, website development, software development, embedded hardware engineering, graphic design, branding, interaction design, business management, business analysis, communications, plus much more.

Nathan has worked hard cultivating a team who have a ‘hive’ approach to solving complex problems, within short time frames. He values what users do and how they interact with technology, over what they say. Nathan is interested in rapid iterative development and experiments used to test design and marketing assumptions.

Currently, Nathan spends most of his time travelling the world meeting new clients, implementing productivity hacks, managing and directing our teams’ in Australia, Vietnam, Poland and Spain, and consulting with international clients who are pioneering technology.

In his (very little) spare time, Nathan enjoys experimenting with machine learning and deep learning, tinkering with augmented reality applications, researching interesting patents, eating Greek food, and sailing with friends and family.