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Friends call me Peyt. Family calls me Peyt Spencer. I'm a full-stack software engineer, hip-hop artist, and Baha'i. I founded Lyrist, a smart toolkit for songwriters to find beats, get suggestions, and overcome writer's block. I also work at Microsoft on the Azure team helping revamp our web and mobile on-call platform.

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My tennis racquet
Me sitting with a smile at a conference
Me wearing an oversized white hat in New York
Me wearing sunglasses at lunch
Me rapping on stage at the Eastside Baha'i Center
Me on a hike

I have been able to blend my love for music with my skills in app development as founder of Lyrist, which I conceived while crafting verses to instrumentals on YouTube and saw that people were commenting their lyrics for entire songs. This was when I participated in #4BarFridays, a weekly Instagram rap challenge hosted by Damian Lillard who was still playing for the Portland Trail Blazers:

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I wanted to support iOS and Android without writing separate code for each platform and found React Native as a cross-platform solution, the evolution of which I have observed and experienced. Expo has become the standard React Native framework for creating new apps. Upgrading to newer versions of React Native is less of a pain. Its collaborative and innovative ecosystem has made building apps like Lyrist enjoyable. Sharing that same joy with others is fun and impactful.

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Drawing from a lifetime of coding and musical experience, I am pursuing solopreneurship to help others bring their vision to life. If you create content, manage social media, make music, or build apps, and innovate! Before you leave, here are some vulnerable thoughts from a modern man: