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 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 my retrospectives.