Hexar Anderson was born on May 12, 1981 in Fort Collins, CO, where he lived for nineteen years, growing up and attending school, finally graduating from Fort Collins High School in 2000. He attended the University of Colorado for three and a half years, studying Computer Science, and earning a Bachelor of Science in December 2003. He then moved to Austin, TX in late February of 2004 to start working for National Instruments as a Software Engineer, and has been there ever since.