My name is Aaqa Ishtyaq. I am a polyglot software engineer with an interest in distributed systems and observability.

I have been writing code professionally for 5 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 a backend engineer working remotely from India on the infrastructure engineering team at Deel. Previously, I was a senior software engineer at HackerRank, focusing on their core remote code execution system.

The theme of my blog is software engineering, but I tend to derive broader life lessons from retrospectives.