A Data Linguist on a Software Team

From undergrads in music and social work, to PhDs in philosophy, to those who never graduated high school -- I've had quite a variety of co-workers during the ten years I've been in tech. Of course, in every software company you'll find your traditional computer science and engineering graduates as well. However, there's a significant and growing population of developers who took a different path to learn to code and are building a profession out of it. I hold a degree in linguistics, which in most universities is not a computational program, but an anthropological one. Required coursework includes topics such as historical and cultural language studies.