about Len

Len Galasso is a retired (2019) electronic engineer, programmer, inventor, maker, musician, arranger, producer, and as a keyboardist and vocalist, a sometime performer with his group, The Canyoneros, which he co-founded.  He has been a part of various musical groups over the last 40 years, including The Rusty Nails, Breakpoint, Mondo Nuevo, Dr. D's Prescription For Jazz , and Aftershock.  He has played before audiences at many venues in the southland, from tiny up to well-known, including Madam Wong's, The Coach House and several appearances at the Orange County Fair.   

Currently (2025), He is working on solo music projects.   

Len's musical training began in the public schools of the Newport Mesa school district, where he was taught to read music and play clarinet by music educator Jim Guy.  Upon entering high school, Len traded (quite literally) his clarinet for an inexpensive electric guitar and taught himself to play it.  He expanded to keyboards in the late 70s, starting with OPIs (Other People's Instruments) and then with a second hand Farfisa organ and a Fender Rhodes 73 Stage piano, the latter of which he left at a drummer's house because the drummer wanted it and Len was really tired of lugging it around.    

Len lives in a rural region of Orange County, California with his wife, a semi-retired artist, and a cat named, Pixeleen, and grew up in Southern California, where he was educated, had a career, raised a family and worked in the electronics industry for nearly 40 years at companies you've probably heard of.  His specialties were real-time firmware, embedded operating systems, Input/Output, device drivers, ASIC architecture, power management, and analog circuit design. His five patents were mostly in the field of cryptography.   

His technical journals begin in 1987 and run until June 2019 and will serve as a road-map for him as he memorializes the designs, situations, problems, challenges, solutions, and the people he encountered along the way in his series Postcards From the Swapfile.