CTO of the Beach

This track comes from Aaron Stransky's core identity — Folly Beach roots, 843 area code, the raw unfiltered version. It tackles Being the CTO of Folly Beach — the absurdity and beauty of running tech for a small beach town, mixing high-tech with flip-flops. The lyrics get specific — "Hurricane comes knocking, I'm the one they call first" — because personal tracks on Majik's are personal for real, not performatively. The country production matches the energy of the confession. It hits humorous and proud, in that order. Every personal track in the catalogue comes from a real moment, a real feeling, a real person. This one is no exception.

[verse 1] Got a title that'll make you do a double take Chief Technology Officer of the palmetto state Well, not the whole state, just this little piece of sand Where the WiFi drops out and the crabs got their own plan City council meets on Tuesdays, dress code's pretty light I showed up in a button-down, they said that's too uptight So now it's khaki shorts and slides with socks, yeah that's my brand CTO of the beach with a keyboard in my hand [chorus] I'm the CTO of the beach, yeah, that's my gig Small town, big tech, you know we're thinking big Public safety systems running off my rig I'm the CTO of the beach, yeah, that's my gig Folly Beach, SC, where the servers meet the sea [verse 2] Hurricane comes knocking, I'm the one they call first Not for sandbags, for the systems when the networks burst Got the radios online, got the cameras on the pier Got the public safety platform running crystal clear They said you're overqualified for a town this size I said you're underestimating what a small team buys Lean Six Sigma on the beach, baby, that's the play Doing more with less every single day [chorus] I'm the CTO of the beach, yeah, that's my gig Small town, big tech, you know we're thinking big Public safety systems running off my rig I'm the CTO of the beach, yeah, that's my gig Folly Beach, SC, where the servers meet the sea [bridge] Silicon Valley's got the money and the hype But we got pelicans and sunsets and we sleep at night OG Unicorn bringing magic to the coast The unconventional tech they need the most [chorus] I'm the CTO of the beach, yeah, that's my gig Small town, big tech, you know we're thinking big Public safety systems running off my rig I'm the CTO of the beach, yeah, that's my gig Folly Beach, SC, where the servers meet the sea [outro] CTO, CTO of the beach That's Stransky to you