Dyrick obtained his A.S. from Central Piedmont Community College and is studying Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech to obtain a B.S. He often helps answer novice programmers' C++ related questions in the IRC channel for cplusplus.com located on Freenode. He has an interest in the reverse engineering side of cybersecurity and digital audio synthesizers. As a casual supporter of independent music producers, musicians, and singers, he enjoys listening to a variety of music genres for elements of sound manipulation and utilization.