How many coders, devs, programmmers, IT peeps, technical design folks are also musicians and/or seriously in pursuit of music lifelong? Curious to know as for more than 30 years in tech I see a lot of crossover.

Mar 30, 2022 · 12:34 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag @meyerweb
I have my degree in Music Education, but got my first gig out of college as a software developer when I couldn’t find a teaching gig. Took many years off playing seriously, but started a band again about 5 years ago.
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I'm glad you are going back Matt. I took a lot of time off as well because most of us got into the web. Even with the lovely gift of a Martin Backpacker from Aaron Gustafson? impossible to travel with musical instruments and it fell away. Also back to music myself since covid.
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Replying to @mholzschlag
Hi There. 31 years in IT/software testing, also the lead singer and one of the songwriters of Ensign Red 😁👍🤘👏
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Quality assurance is good for software as well as musical excellence. 31 years is a marathon, not a short sprint when it comes to either much less both. I call that street cred here. You guys actively playing shows? Lead singers and songwriters make or break bands. No small task.
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Replying to @mholzschlag
I've been writing music since the late 80s. Always have. Always will. open.spotify.com/artist/0RYj…
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Thank you so much for sharing how cool. And I love that you have kept at it. I wish I had as a musician I definitely did not and my guitar playing especially took a turn from being apparently pretty good for a check to can't play my way out of a hole LOL. I'm strongest vocally.
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Replying to @mholzschlag
The CTO of Schwab when I worked for them, Dawn Lapore, was a member of the same music fraternity my wife is. I asked her about it and she said companies used to recruit musicians when they couldn't find computer science candidates, because there's so much crossover.
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Interesting Schwab was on that. I did some work with Fidelity. They were also very aware of where to find the best tech people. First company in my experience to hone in on security concerns with HTML5 APIs, browser storage, etc. Stuff we still don't address. In 2010 no less!
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Replying to @mholzschlag
There are ALWAYS other musicians on every team I join, so a huge amount of crossover. I've been in tech nearly 25 years, but did a degree studying jazz. The older I get the more I think it was (for me) the perfect preparation.
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I often think the web at its best is Miles Davis and John Coltrane. at its worst? Smooth jazz. AKA fake nonsense that infuriates me! So yes excellent background you have there! 😂
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