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    <h1>Ayo Ayco</h1>
    <p>ᜈᜄ᜔ᜋᜓᜎ ᜐ ᜉᜒᜇ̢̟ᜎᜐ᜔ ᜅ᜔ ᜐᜒᜎᜅᜈᜈ᜔</p>
    <p>
      Frontend guy who likes server adventures, coding, and linux. Passionate
      about the indieweb, digital sovereignty, and kindness.
    </p>
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      <summary>
        Hey there! I interrupt this page for a message from this website's
        sponsor...
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      <p>
        <strong>Myself!</strong> Thank you for wanting to read a bit more about me.
        <!--Some people shy away from writing things about themselves, and thus looks negatively at others who do. But that shouldn't be the case!-->
        I find it helpful to have a single canonical <code class="inline-code"
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        > page with these significant information. It is always a work in progress
        (like me), and to be honest, I do this mostly as a reminder as the world
        continue to impose identity onto us. Cheers to celebrating differences!
      </p>
      <small> Now back to the rest of the web page... </small>
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    <p>
      I am a newbie engineering manager at a large global bank headquartered in
      Amsterdam. I'm also a certified software architecture professional
      (CPSA‑F®) by <a href="https://isaqb.org" target="_blank">isaqb.org</a>.
    </p>

    <p>
      In my spare time, when I have energy, I find it fun building <a
        href="/showcase">hobby projects</a
      >, running self-hosted services at <a href="https://ayo.run">ayo.run</a>,
      and volunteering to <a
        href="https://ayos.blog/why-fediverse/"
        target="_blank">Fediverse</a
      > projects like <a href="https://elk.zone">elk.zone</a>,
      <a href="https://m.webtoo.ls/public/local">webtoo.ls</a>, and <a
        href="https://m.webtoo.ls/@vitest">vitest's fedi presence</a
      >.
    </p>

    <p>
      In a previous life, I've volunteered much of my weekends into teaching
      kids, leading groups of students, planting a church, and facilitating
      focus group discussions with entrepreneurial founders, where I learned a
      lot about the power of multi-generational & multi-cultural communities.
    </p>

    <h2 id="contact">Contact info</h2>
    <ul>
      <li>✉️ Email: <a href="mailto:ayo@ayco.io">ayo@ayco.io</a></li>
      <li>
        👀 Fedi: <a href="https://social.ayco.io/@ayo">@ayo@ayco.io</a>
      </li>
      <li>
        💬 Signal: <a
          href="https://signal.me/#eu/mU2KHaMuoumvLaq7P5ZPUU4HMd0SaU9hYHeEPbDIeJzysNL01FVLfbk-kVEncfIz"
          >ayo.88</a
        >
      </li>
      <li>💬 Matrix: @ayoayco:matrix.org</li>
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        💬 Discord: <a href="https://discord.gg/kkvW7GYNAp">Ayo's Projects</a>
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      <li>💬 Discord: ayoayco</li>
    </ul>
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