Byron Stout is currently the Director of Engineering at iCIMS – the Talent Cloud company – where he helps teams build software that enables companies to attract, engage, hire, and advance the best talent. However, on Christmas Day 1983 he was among the thousands of children who received a Commodore 64 for the very first time. From that first day typing in a program from the C64 User Manual to just yesterday, Byron continues to think about computer programming every day and remains a little bit amazed that he can make a living doing so.