Aaqa Ishtyaq
Back End Engineer, Infra at Deel
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAaqa Ishtyaq is a back-end and infrastructure engineer with 9 years of experience building secure, distributed systems for running untrusted code in private cloud environments. Currently at Deel, he focuses on internal developer platforms and single-tenant production sandboxes, bringing practical expertise in isolation, orchestration, and multi-tenant reliability. Previously at HackerRank he led infrastructure engineering for remote code execution and workspace orchestration, rearchitecting critical systems for scalability, resilience, and event-driven scheduling. He is a polyglot developer comfortable across languages and runtimes, with a track record of designing VM-based workspace scaling algorithms and integrating developer tools like VSCode and Jupyter at scale. Based in Bengaluru, he blends hands-on implementation with platform-level thinking, often tackling subtle operational challenges in secure execution environments. His background suggests a keen interest in edge cases of sandboxing and performance-aware orchestration that keep developer workflows both fast and safe.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science at Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology
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Github Skills (200)
programming-language10
python10
testing10
websocket10
language-server-protocol10
interpreter10
theia10
eventsource10
serverless10
eclipse10
scanner10
javascript10
safari10
linux10
browser10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
aaqaishtyaq/aaqaishtyaq.github.io
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Main repository containing my portfolio website.
Contributions:83 commits, 52 PRs, 95 pushes in 4 years 6 months
cssjavascript
aaqaishtyaq/dang-vscode
Dec 2018 - Aug 2021
Dang! Dark 🎨 for VSCODE
Contributions:5 releases, 9 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 8 months
vscodevscode-extensiondark-themevscode-pluginvscode-theme
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