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-I am a software engineer, data scientist and expat currently living in Chicago, IL.  In the past I was an astrophysicist, working on high performance computing simulations of galaxy formation.  Currently, I design and build web-scale systems at [Narrative Science](http://www.narrativescience.com).
+I am a software engineer, data scientist and American citizen currently living in Chicago, IL.  In the past I was an astrophysicist, working on high performance computing simulations of galaxy formation.  Currently, I design and build web-scale systems at [Narrative Science](http://www.narrativescience.com).
 
 Currently my main software engineering / data engineering interests are centered around designing scalable infrastructure and cloud architectures, while my main data science focus is on the analytics of sports data.