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Livio is a software engineer currently working as a program manager for Microsoft in Seattle. He is also a hobbyist game developer who has managed multiple online and offline communities, and he loves to volunteer for educational programs that introduce kids to programming. He was born in the Dominican Republic and studied computer science at the University of Arizona.

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