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  Software developer, focused on building
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  Scala, Haskell, functional programming enthusiast.
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	<h1>About</h1>

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		Software developer, author of <a href="https://monix.io">Monix</a>, <a href="https://typelevel.org/">Typelevel</a> contributor, focused on building low-latency, high-throughput web services, JVM (Scala, Kotlin), and functional programming enthusiast.
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