Adam Matan

Ziqim, Israel

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Age: 31

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

About to finish my BA in CS and humanities at the Hebrew university, Jerusalem.
Contact me at adam@matan.name

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