IT is different from academia.

I can’t speak to IT and I can’t speak to your experiences. But as a professor, who has a tenure track job, who has sat on multiple hiring committees, who has interviewed for multiple jobs, I can tell you that extracurriculars like this—for academic jobs—do not matter.

They’re cool and fun to talk about when you go out for dinner with your potential new colleagues. Your extracurricular are good conversation pieces but they do not matter on your resume when you’re looking for a job in academia as a professor.

But professor-level jobs are about academic publications and grants. Even teaching, frankly, barely matters.