After UNC, I worked at IBM for a year in Austin, Texas. Ironically, this was a place where probably my passion for music grew more than my passion for tech. I enjoyed working at IBM, but it’s also where I first grew to love country western music and gain more ideas about the kinds of music I could make. For my career, I felt that at IBM I was not learning and growing as quickly as I wanted to, so I began looking for new opportunities after about 9 months there. This is when an old friend reached out saying they were looking for an engineer to join them at their startup in San Francisco.