There are actually a lot of other software engineers / freelancers on https://www.reddit.com/r/vandwellers/top/?sort=top&t=all. Like this engineer from Tesla: http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-employee-lived-out-of-v...
I find the modding be really cool. But the stories of people getting killed/robbed at night like this Palo Alto tech worker scares me: https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/man-kill...
(Google campus would be a pretty ideal place to do this though)