<h2 id="2024-year-in-review">2024: Year in Review</h2>
<ul class='year-in-review'>

<li>
    Took a big step forward in life, got engaged 💍
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        <img src='https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2428855e-931d-4943-bea9-c42c35943f20' alt='akul-chandni' />
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</li>

<li>
    Vibrant highlights of the year, from the festival of colors, Holi 2024
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        <img src='https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6f76d062-c318-4fdb-8200-9609bc579284' alt='holi-2024'>
        <img src='https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ddd3fba0-9d2d-4549-9e6e-6d3490f608bd' alt='holi-2024'>
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</li>

<li>Reached a new milestone in my career with a promotion to SDE-2 at smallcase</li>

<li>
    Went to Bangalore for office onsite visit 🏢
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        <img src='https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/80262c7e-8113-4e09-a138-cd29f51d42d1' alt='office' />
        <img src='https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/286607a4-bd90-438b-a3cf-bdcbe0aa5fe3' alt='blr-palace' />
    </div>
</li>

<li>
    Bought myself Xiaomi Pad 6
</li>

<li>
    Got <a href='https://opencollective.com/akul-srivastavaa/transactions' target='_blank'>paid</a> for doing opensource
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        <img src='https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/edc1d2c4-a09c-4a4d-b3b4-9dbfd420b6ea' alt='opencollective-payment' />
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</li>

<li>
    Second time of the year for office visit
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        <img src='https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1dbfb6d0-b8a7-4d78-b663-b021b6ef8d29' alt='blr-entry' />
        <img src='https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c465906f-a8b0-4ee4-9e93-ec3f15ae9356' alt='office-worksetup' />
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</li>

<li>
    Got my smallcase ID
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        <img src='https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/dbb506fa-deee-4e0f-8429-c25378ef7e9c' alt='scid' />
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</li>

<li>
    Chocolates on my birthday from smallcase
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        <img src='https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c9c0c0c2-512b-445a-89ea-9f169412d39d' alt='birthday-chocolates' />
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</li>

<li>
    Went for the Alumni meet at my college
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        <img src='https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f3d7d115-20b9-407b-ab6a-b21761263f0a' alt='alumni-meet'>
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</li>

<li>
    Diwali 2024
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        <img src='https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b7477ea0-0188-44a4-9e1a-5a6f0b4dfbc4' alt='diwali-2024'>
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</li>

<li>
    Upgraded my tech setup with a sleek new laptop to boost productivity, bought Myself a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Laptop
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        <img src='https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/55ee5ad5-678a-41b2-96d1-e38d4de19323' alt='' />
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</li>

<li>
    Got the chance to meet industry leaders at a Ab India Karega Groww event, met Neeraj Arora and Gajendra Kothari.
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        <img src='https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/83717bf7-9a1c-45aa-b290-860cc81d9ea2' alt='with-neeraj-arora' />
        <img src='https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cfceca19-ea47-4fae-8505-999ab80762d6' alt='with-gajendra-kothari' />
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</li>

<li>
    Started putting up some content on my youtube channel
</li>

<li>
    Got around 2.2k visitors with 3.0k organic page views in 2024 on my website
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        <img src='https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f67ed49c-8e84-476a-8d59-0b9766282899' alt='website-metrics-2024' >
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</li>

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