All about the Goats

Feisty Goat Interactive is the brain-child and pet project of Josh, Mike and Carlos. Working together on a multitude of enterprise projects we thought, “We should really find some space to collaborate and engineer some of the stuff we don’t have time to build during our 9-to-5 gigs.” So we set out to create a more open outlet for our creativity.

Feisty Goat iz in ur backyard, eatin’ ur bizkits

Feisty is based right in the heart of the U.S. We feel there’s plenty of great creative energy here on the plains and bluffs of Americana. San Fran, New York, Chicago—all great cities. Hell, we LOVE to visit ‘em! But you don’t have to go there for great digital work. Ping us and we’ll show you how.

Okay, but who the hell are you?

Good question. To be honest, we’re still figuring that out ourselves. Life is a journey friends but here’s a little back story…so we aren’t total strangers.

Joshua Bullock

Creative Director/ Bemused Rant Mastah

The Joshua serves as Creative Director here at Feisty. He grew up in Texas but migrated north through Oklahoma to Missouri and is back in the Lone Star state once again. He has worked in digital media for 14 years and visual design for 20. His work includes illustrating comics for several independent companies as well as Top Cow comics. He's also been found pushing design and branding for the likes of Corsair Memory, Legit Reviews and several Missouri state agencies.

Proficient in front-end web development and the Adobe Creative Suite, he also has a deep understanding of marketing and sales. Mr. Joshua enjoys art and design, playing video games and learning about history and communication. He currently lives in Austin, Texas, with his enchanting wife, Colleen, and their son Zachary.

Mike Roling

Lead Developer/ The Tallest

Mike is Feisty Goat Interactive’s Lead Software Engineer. Born and raised in Missouri, he graduated from Saint Louis University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Management Information Systems. Mike's work includes applications developed for Anheuser-Busch, AT&T, and the state of Missouri, developing for mainframe, desktop, web and mobile devices (are there other platforms?). Mike has an affinity towards the Linux, Apache, PHP, and MySQL (LAMP) stack but can develop on other stacks too.

Recently, Mike has been focusing on information security, primarily web application security. He loves to hack websites, but in the good way. When Mike isn’t building web apps or trying to hack websites, you’ll probably find him watching TV, playing video games, reading tech books, or in Vegas playing blackjack. He has a real soft spot for TF2, so if you hear some nerd yelling, “FEISTY”, you’ll know it is him.

Carlos Arellano

Lead Designer/ Artiste Extraordinaire

C.A. is a front end web developer, graphic/web designer and all around nice guy. Texas grown, Carlos ended up in Mid-Missouri when his parents dragged him there at 15, kicking and screaming. While most kids where furiously taking notes in class, Carlos was furiously drawing. His artisic talents which had developed in his early childrood, led him to pursue a career in traditional art.

A few college art classes later, he changed his major to CIS. This dramatic shift occured when he originally was trying to show off his digital art in a portfolio web site, but the Web design and development aspects of the task really captivated his interest. While other students struggled to master HTML and CSS, Carlos quickly learned them and started throwing sites together in no time. In 2007, he began working for the Department of Corrections as a help desk intern, and a year later was hired on full time. Two years of working at help desk later, he was asked to become a member of the Missouri Web Team. Surprised and honored, he accepted and his life would never be the same. To be continued…?

Yeah, yeah, but wtf do you do?

Well, we should start with what we don’t do. Yeah, that’ll work.

At Feisty we don’t do stupid. There’s tons of design and development that’s just done to make a buck. That’s not who we are.

We want you to be amazing and we can help you get there. We want to build something oustanding and have your name in lights. We’ll work to bring your ideas and creativity to life. Whether it’s a site design or reworking your identity to embrace the information age, we want you to rock. It’s what makes us roll.

Check out our “work” page to find out more.