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Born in the wilderness of Russian Tymen, I grew up in - my country of origin - Azerbaijan's capial Baku, and later lived in Blagoevgrad Bulgaria, New York NY, Boston MA, Lubock TX, Boca Raton FL and more. The island of Martha's Vineyard carries a special place in my heart. I dropped out of American University in Bulgaria, but later returned to school in Framingham State University, and graduated top of my class, majoring in Finance, and double minoring in Computer Science and Economics. Even though I enjoyed the Computer Science classes during college, when I graduated, I did not continue building my CS skills and got a job in financial services industry instead.

I started my Finance career at Morgan Stanley as a Financial Advisor Associate, but now work as a Financial Solutions Advisor at Bank of America & Merrill. I am now studying web development to extend my knowledge. I am happily married to my wife Eralda Rushiti Aliyeva, and together we have a 9 month old son Elias Darius Aliyev. In my free time, I like to read, go for walks, exercise, and my guilty pleasure is watching movies or tv-series. If I can muster half the commitment that I have for my favorite shows towards web development, I am hoping that I will be moderately succesful. Once I master web development, I would also like to learn some other new languages - both human and softeare development. If I can learn German, French, Spanish, and Italian by the time I am 40, I will be very happy with that achievement.