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Hish Bouabdallah is the founder and CEO of Tribes Protocol, Inc. He is a graduate of Michigan State University with extensive experience leading development teams, developing iOS and Android apps, and working with blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. He has a proven track record of building complex, high-traffic, and high-performance applications, scaling databases, mobile apps, and backend services. His specialties include Swift, Kotlin, Objective-C, Java, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, Go, and Solidity.
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