I'm a software engineer, my work is done on work VMs, all my personal projects (coding and music) are done locally and not backed up. I occasionally copy my entire SSD over to a large HDD, but haven't done it for a couple of years.
It's entirely plausible.
You're a software engineer that doesn't use github or even bitbucket to store your personal project code? Not even a googledrive, dropbox, box.net sync services?
