Ishar Menon

About

Hi, I'm Ishar — a software engineer, athlete-at-heart, and someone who enjoys building things that are fast and reliable. I enjoy digging deep into the inner workings of systems and love solving problems at scale, especially anything involving concurrency, memory optimization, or architecting clean, maintainable systems.

I work primarily in database systems with recent experience of building a high-performance database client which can scale to 300K QPS on a single machine.

Outside of work, you'll find me on a badminton court, in the gym, out running or experimenting with training methods to improve speed, VO₂ max, and recovery. I care a lot about fitness, nutrition, and continuous learning.

This site is where I share what I'm learning, what I'm building, and the things I'm passionate about.