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      <title>Markdown Syntax Guide</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;This article offers a sample of basic Markdown syntax that can be used in Hugo content files, also it shows whether basic HTML elements are decorated with CSS in a Hugo theme.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>About</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Software &amp;amp; cloud architect with 9+ years of experience specializing in &lt;strong&gt;.NET&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Azure&lt;/strong&gt;, backed by a Computer Engineering degree from COMSATS University. I design systems, from domain-driven backends and event-driven microservices to full infrastructure-as-code pipelines using &lt;strong&gt;Bicep&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;ARM templates&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;Azure DevOps&lt;/strong&gt;. My bread and butter is taking a vague business problem, scoping it, designing the architecture, and shipping it end-to-end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At &lt;strong&gt;S&amp;amp;P Global&lt;/strong&gt;, I architected a full-stack ESG dashboard with &lt;strong&gt;ASP.NET MVC&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Node.js&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;Knockout JS&lt;/strong&gt;, backed by &lt;strong&gt;C#/SQL Server ETL pipelines&lt;/strong&gt; that ingested and aggregated hundreds of financial data points for US markets. At &lt;strong&gt;Steer73&lt;/strong&gt;, I delivered a content platform on &lt;strong&gt;Kentico CMS&lt;/strong&gt; wired to &lt;strong&gt;Azure Functions&lt;/strong&gt; and CDN serving thousands of daily readers; replaced manual Excel operations with a &lt;strong&gt;Blazor Server&lt;/strong&gt; + &lt;strong&gt;ABP Framework&lt;/strong&gt; engineering tool; and integrated &lt;strong&gt;Wallet Connect&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Nethereum&lt;/strong&gt; into a blockchain metaverse platform, cutting transaction latency by 50%. I also migrated a legacy courier service suite to &lt;strong&gt;.NET 8&lt;/strong&gt; across desktop, mobile, and web, tightening CI/CD pipelines and SQL performance along the way.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Feel free to reach out through any of the channels below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Email:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:hello@zahidali.dev&#34; &gt;hello@zahidali.dev&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LinkedIn:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.linkedin.com/in/zahidalizak/&#34;  class=&#34;external-link&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; rel=&#34;noopener&#34;&gt;linkedin.com/in/zahidalizak&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GitHub:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/1alikhan&#34;  class=&#34;external-link&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; rel=&#34;noopener&#34;&gt;github.com/1alikhan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;https://stackoverflow.com/users/3796767/ali-khan&#34;  class=&#34;external-link&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; rel=&#34;noopener&#34;&gt;stackoverflow.com/users/3796767&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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