One of only five active crawlers attending CrawlCon and an occasional Top Ten presence.
Zev names Chirag Ali as one of the few active crawlers allowed to attend the convention while the crawl is still running. Carl recognizes the name from intermittent appearances on the Top Ten list but has not met the crawler.
Chirag is scheduled separately and will not share Carl's panel.
Chirag represents the small group of current crawlers participating in the unusual concurrent CrawlCon.
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