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Toyin Onagoruwa is the founding editor of BrokeMeNot. He works as a software engineer in banking and has over 5 years of experience writing about personal finance, credit cards, and frugal living. He combines his fintech engineering background with real-world money management experience to create financial content you can actually use. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

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