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I am a Software Engineer with strong UI design skills and over 10 years of experience with web technologies and UI development. I excel at thinking about UX as much as solving difficult technical problems. 

Opinions are my own. Code snippets are open source.

Follow me on [Github](https://github.com/nickbalestra) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/nickbalestra), connect on [Linkedin](https://linkedin.com/in/nickbalestra) and [Facebook](https://facebook.com/nickbalestra) or just drop me an [email](mailto:<EMAIL>).
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I am a Software Engineer with strong UI design skills and over 10 years of experience with web technologies and UI development. I enjoy at thinking about UX as much as solving difficult technical problems. 

Opinions are my own. Code snippets are open source.

Follow me on [Github](https://github.com/nickbalestra) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/nickbalestra), connect on [Linkedin](https://linkedin.com/in/nickbalestra) and [Facebook](https://facebook.com/nickbalestra) or just drop me an [email](mailto:<EMAIL>).
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#### Site's stack:

Built with [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/).
<br>Hosted on [Github Pages](https://pages.github.com/).
<br>Based on my [Kactus](https://github.com/nickbalestra/kactus) theme.
<br>Feel free to [fork](https://github.com/nickbalestra/nickbalestra.github.io), change, modify and re-use it.
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