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# Karl Gustaf Hallsby

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I am a responsible and independent self-starter.<br>
In addition, I am a quick-learning, and goal-oriented Masters degree student with knowledge of computer hardware and software design, and experience in leading projects in a multinational corporation.<br>
I have expertise in digital hardware design, software engineering, and system security.

I am a [GNU Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) user, and my dotfiles can be found [here](https://github.com/KarlJoad/Emacs_Dotfiles).
I also use [NixOS](https:nixos.org), my dotfiles for various machines are [here](https://github.com/KarlJoad/NixOS_Dotfiles).
To manage my home directory's dotfiles, I use [home-manager](https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager), whose dotfiles can be found [here](https://github.com/KarlJoad/Dotfiles-hm).
You can find the source for this website [here](https://git.karl.hallsby.com/website).<br>

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For further exploration of my work, please see [my GitHub](https://github.com/KarlJoad).