About Craig

Craig Reeder’s day job is building the invisible infrastructure that powers enterprise software at scale. By night, he builds something harder to explain. A decade of engineering has given him an unusual lens on performance: a deep appreciation for systems, misdirection, and the gap between what people think is happening and what actually is.

He performs close-up magic and mentalism for private clients and corporate audiences across Chicago and beyond, bringing the same obsessive precision to a card trick as he does to a production deployment. Engineering taught him that every system has a gap between its apparent behavior and its actual one. Magic is just the same principle, applied to people.

Craig is an active member of the Chicago magic community, participating in the Chicago Magic Round Table, the International Brotherhood of Magicians Ring 43, and the Society of American Magicians Assembly 3, where he serves on the Board of Directors. For him, membership is less about networking and more about craft. Within these communities, knowledge flows both ways. You learn from people who’ve spent decades refining their craft, and eventually you become the person someone else learns from.

He also consults for fellow performers on technical needs and online presence, putting the same skills that power enterprise software to work for working magicians.