Cool! Yea, I think it's more common over the last couple decades than people realize. It has been my experience that having software developers from wider intellectual and creative backgrounds is a good thing for an engineering team. Better communication and fewer blind spots + lots of learning opportunities from each other. Did/do you create art, or are you talking more about an art history background? If the former, what kind of stuff do you work on? I was mostly doing pen & ink illustration. Veered into a sort of 1960's "comix" angle before I (temporarily, I hope) hung up the pen and brush.