Mark Sonnabaum, performance engineer at Acquia, comes to open source on a straighter path than some ... despite his university degree being in music composition! He was a systems administrator at the University of North Texas and chose Drupal – in the Drupal 4 era – as the replacement for a mish-mash of legacy, static systems at the university. Today, he is a contributor who has made significant improvements to how Drupal performs for all of us.
Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/70-meet-mark-sonnabaum-musician-sysadmin-performance-fanatic