Vic is a software engineer and indie software maker from Raleigh, North Carolina. He's a dad, runner, violinist, and is addicted to acquiring new hobbies. He has run the tech side of North Carolina's extremely popular Rare & Vintage Beer Festival for the last 11 years. Vic was previously in the scientific communications space and a technical cofounder of Research Square preprints, an inaugural recipient of the Fast Company "Brands that Matter" list for accelerating research communication during the pandemic. In his spare time, you can find Vic building LEGO with his family or out at the plant nursery adopting yet another plant.