About Me

I love keyboards — I think that’s the TL;DR of it.

My story

I have always loved music and I have always loved tech — and I can trace both passions back to early “core memories”.

I fell in love with computers at the age of 8 or so when a school friend’s mom taught me how to use DOS and walked me through writing my first program in QBasic. In hindsight, it was a really trivial program (a CLI directory / phonebook app), but that amazing feeling of putting words in a text editor causing a computer to ask you questions and then save the responses to disk? The feeling of that memory never went away. Similarly, the feeling of bringing something to life with a keyboard stayed with me…

I fell in love with music a little earlier than that. I don’t know how old I was exactly, but I would “help” my sister (10 years older than me) practice. This I would do by standing at the lower end of the piano, and playing specified bass notes when she told me to. I’m sure I was more a nuisance than anything, but those memories started a love affair with the piano and, subsequently, the pipe organ.

Ultimately, music won, and I went on to study music at universities and conservatories and have a professional career in music as a pianist, organist, and conductor. I have loved every minute.

However, after 20 years, it is time for a change, and I am now pursuing a career in tech.

If there’s one thing that ties my passions together, it’s keyboards. I love keyboards — I think that’s the TL;DR of it. That might sound silly, but ultimately I derive a lot of satisfaction from using my hands to make instruments do amazing things — whether that’s writing code to build an app, or coaxing beautiful sounds from a massive pipe organ.