Software engineer

AyashTwayana

Hey — I'm Ayash. I build software for a living and I'm working through a master's at KIT on the side. Away from the keyboard I play guitar, and lately I've fallen down the coffee rabbit hole: hand grinders, specialty beans, and pressing my espresso by hand.

Work

Software Engineer, ProMusicTools

2019 — now

Musical-instrument retail, B2C and B2B. I build and maintain the internal and customer-facing systems — working student first, full-time since 2023.

  • storefront

    Migrated a Magento 1 monolith to a headless Magento 2 architecture on GraphCommerce, shipped February 2024.

  • platform

    Tune and scale the cluster behind it — Apache, PHP-FPM, MySQL, Redis, OpenSearch.

  • pricing

    Built the company-wide price monitoring system: Laravel and Python scrapers covering more than 40,000 pages a day, with automated repricing back into Magento.

  • services

    Go services around the edges, including real-time search suggestions on RediSearch.

Working student, Jochen Schweizer mydays Holding

2019

IT support, image processing and content management.

Study

M.Sc. Informatics, KIT

in progress

B.Sc. Informatics, TU München

2018 — 2023

Studienkolleg Sachsen, Universität Leipzig

2016 — 2017

Papers

CountMinSketch-based Efficient Hardware Event Counting

ARCS, 2023

Sketch data structures as a cheaper way to count hardware events.

Improving Real-time Capability using C++20/23

TU München, 2022

Seminar paper on what the newer standards offer real-time systems.

Blog

Notes on things I'm building, breaking or brewing.

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Tools

languages
TypeScript, PHP, Python, Go, C, C++, Rust, SQL
web
React, Vue 3, Next.js, Laravel, Symfony, Magento & GraphCommerce
data & infra
MySQL, Redis, RediSearch, OpenSearch, GCP, DigitalOcean, AWS
spoken
German, English, Nepali, Hindi

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