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title: About Me

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# About Me

Hi everyone my name is Ismail!

I'm joining Expel after nearly 4 years of working in a consultant role.

I would describe myself as an avid technologist who loves to understand how things work!

Since my wife and I had our first kid 5 months ago, "Free time" is a distant memory, but I vaguely recall enjoying mountain biking, running and woodworking! 

I'm super pumped to work/learn with everyone and solve some gnarly problems :) 

I'll leave you with this!
```bash
## if you need to install jq, i'm judging ;D 
curl -Ls https://v2.jokeapi.dev/joke/Programming\?safe-mode\&type\=single | jq .joke -r
```
