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Hi there! I'm a recent CS grad from the University of Minnesota, currently
working as an associate researcher at SIFT. I've been doing web development for
a long time and now I'm looking into security, programming language
development, and software development!

In an effort to rely on less services, I started doing a lot of self-hosting
and rewriting of software. Check out some of the projects I'm doing over on my
public [Gitea][2]!

I'm also a beatmap creator for the rhythm game [OSU][3]. Check out some of my
creations on my [OSU userpage][4].

## contact

- Email: (I sign all my Git commits with this email)
- PGP Key: [hosted on Keybase][1]
- IRC: michael on acm.umn.edu

[1]: https://keybase.io/michaelz/pgp_keys.asc?fingerprint=925ecc02890d5cdae26180d4bda47a31a3c8ee6b
[2]: https://git.mzhang.io/explore
[3]: https://osu.ppy.sh
[4]: https://osu.ppy.sh/u/2688103