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Hip-hop Wizardry Meets Mad Computer Skills


By Jeff Feinman
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September 1, 2008 —  (Page 1 of 3)
A New York City programmer is showing the music world that technically savvy people can have plenty of hip-hop groove.

Soce the Elemental Wizard, whose real name is Andrew Singer, may not have typical hip-hop roots: He was born and raised in Kensington, N.H., and obtained an Ivy League education at Yale University, graduating with a degree in math and computer science. But while hitting the books, Soce discovered rap acts like Above the Law, the Beastie Boys, Wu Tang Clan and Jay-Z. As he rapped along to the popular albums from those artists, he said, he gradually began to mix in his own lyrics and freestyles. Thus began his love affair with the genre.  

Today the 28-year-old lives in New York’s East Village and is a computer programmer for a midtown Manhattan brokerage, where he generates financial database reports for sales, compliance and other departments. Though he was unable to disclose the name or details of his employer, he said he uses an Oracle database and a Cognos reporting tool. His duties include writing scripts and formatting reports for clients and government groups. He has also done Perl programming, along with work in C++, Java, and Python for the brokerage.

Early in his career, Soce worked in Louisville, Ky., for General Electric Appliances, programming with Microsoft’s Visual Basic and doing what he called other “simple” database work. After about a year, he found himself at Microsoft's Redmond headquarters, working as a build tester for SharePoint Team Services.

Soce downplayed his testing contributions to SharePoint, saying that he mostly reviewed code that had already been tested and that most of the bugs he found were already known to the company. Nonetheless, he said his Microsoft experience was enriching.

“I got used to the corporate vibe, and it was a fun time there,” Soce said. “They hold Puzzle Day, and they have lots of intramural sports; it’s a real college-type vibe. You have to take a bus to get around their campus; if you have a meeting somewhere else, it’s not as easy as walking down the hall.”



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