From 59ab0961d6930127287e18f81cc71f67535c1290 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Johannes=20M=C3=BCller?= <straightshoota@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 11:14:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add mverzilli to Core Team (#890)

Co-authored-by: Beta Ziliani <beta@manas.tech>
---
 _data/team.yaml                          |  9 +++++----
 _posts/2025-01-21-new-year-new-member.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 _posts/2025-01-21-new-year-new-member.md

diff --git a/_data/team.yaml b/_data/team.yaml
index 40e0d8a6..d1db48c9 100644
--- a/_data/team.yaml
+++ b/_data/team.yaml
@@ -44,12 +44,16 @@ core:
     name: Stephanie Wilde-Hobbs
     status: active
 
-
   ysbaddaden:
     name: Julien Portalier
     status: active
     affiliation: Manas.Tech
 
+  mverzilli:
+    name: Martin Verzilli
+    status: active
+    affiliation: Manas.Tech
+
 admin:
   nditada:
     name: Nicolás di Tada
@@ -103,9 +107,6 @@ alumni:
   ggiraldez:
     name: Gustavo Giraldez
 
-  mverzilli:
-    name: Martin Verzilli
-
   spalladino:
     name: Santiago Palladino
 
diff --git a/_posts/2025-01-21-new-year-new-member.md b/_posts/2025-01-21-new-year-new-member.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6b41418f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_posts/2025-01-21-new-year-new-member.md
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+---
+title: New year, new member
+summary: mverzilli rejoins the Core Team
+author: beta-ziliani
+categories: project
+tags: [people, core-team]
+---
+
+With great pleasure we announce the reincorporation of [Martin Verzilli](https://github.com/mverzilli) to the [Core Team of Crystal](/team).  Martin is the current CTO of [Manas.Tech](https://manas.tech), with a large record of experience in different languages and technologies.
+
+He was previously part of the initial group of people that started the Core Team back in [the early stages of Crystal](./2016-12-29-crystal-new-year-resolutions-for-2017-1-0.md).
+And now he's returning to an active and growing role in the project.
+
+Welcome back, Martin!
+
+<div class="testimonial-profile">
+  <img src="/assets/authors/mverzilli.jpg" alt="Photo of Martin Verzilli">
+  <p>Martin Verzilli</p>
+</div>