My name is Aaqa Ishtyaq, I'm a Polyglot Software Engineer, with an interest in Distributed Systems and Observability.
I've been writing code professionally for 5 years now, and as a hobby, since I was 12. I'm a massive cyberpunk nerd. I like to read books, take photos, and hike in the mountains near my place.
I'm based out of India, working remotely as a Senior Software Engineer at HackerRank. I work on their core remote code execution system.
The theme of my blog is software engineering, but I tend to derive broader life lessons from my retrospectives.
Here are some featured posts and pages:
- Notes
- Firecracker Dev Machine Setup (GCP)
- Linux Container Networking from Scratch
- Git exclude files from working copy
- Open markdown links in a new tab
- The Recipe of a great RESTful API
- Reading
- Animal Farm by George Orwell: A Journey into Allegory
- 1984 by George Orwell: A Journey into Dystopia
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Navigating the Complexities of Humanity
- Travel
- Contact
Skills
Languages
- Go
- Rust
- Ruby
- Typescript
- Python
- Bash
- HTML5
- CSS3
- Sass
- SQL
- Markdown
Tools
- Vim / VS Code
- Tmux
- Z Shell
- Firecracker
- Buildkit
- Containerd
- Docker
- Virtualbox
- Vagrant
- Ansible
- Gulp
Frameworks
- OpenTelemetry
- Ruby on Rails
- Scrapy
- Django
- Flask
- Node.js
- React.js
- Mocha / Chai
Others
- Message Brokers
- Kubernetes
- Nomad
- Basic UNIX Admin
- PostgreSQL
- DyanamoDB
- gRPC / REST
- AWS / GCP / OCI