My name is Aaqa Ishtyaq. I am a polyglot software engineer with an interest in distributed systems, ML infrastructure, and inference engineering.
I have been writing code professionally for 7 years and, as a hobby, since I was 12. I like to read books, take photos, and hike in the mountains near my place.
I am an infrastructure engineer at Deel, working remotely from India on distributed systems at scale. Previously, I was a senior software engineer at HackerRank, building their core remote code execution system.
I am currently deep in ML infrastructure — building for inference engineering, fine-tuning, and training infrastructure. I am working on depot, a distributed Firecracker microVM orchestration platform, and arin, an AI-powered workflow automation system with multi-model LLM routing.
The theme of my blog is software engineering, but I tend to derive broader life lessons from retrospectives.
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Skills
Languages
- Go
- Rust
- Python
- CUDA
- Ruby
- TypeScript
- Bash
- SQL
Tools
- vLLM
- Triton Inference Server
- TensorRT
- ONNX Runtime
- Weights & Biases
- Ray
- Firecracker
- Buildkit
- Containerd
- Docker
- Vim / VS Code
Frameworks
- PyTorch
- Hugging Face Transformers
- DeepSpeed
- Flash Attention
- OpenTelemetry
- Ruby on Rails
- Django
- React.js
- Node.js
Others
- GPU Cluster Orchestration
- Distributed Training
- Model Serving & Inference
- Fine-tuning (LoRA / QLoRA)
- Model Quantization
- NCCL / RDMA Networking
- Kubernetes
- Nomad
- PostgreSQL
- gRPC / REST
- AWS / GCP / OCI