Adam Matan

Ziqim, Israel

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Age: 32

I work as a Software developer at the Tel Aviv team of Yahoo!, and live at Kibbutz Zikim, Israel.

B.Sc in Computer Science and humanities from the Hebrew university, Jerusalem.
Contact me at adam@matan.name

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