Ishan Mishra

Systems / Backend Engineering

I build systems-level software and backend infrastructure — from a Redis-compatible data store with a custom epoll event loop, to ESP32 firmware and real-time ML inference. Comfortable working across the software–hardware boundary. Currently looking for a Software/Systems Engineering internship.

redis-clone 120K ops/sec
Jan 2026 – Mar 2026

A Redis-compatible in-memory data store built from scratch in Go — RESP wire protocol, so it works with the real redis-cli and standard drivers. Single-threaded epoll event loop handles 500+ concurrent connections without a thread-per-connection model. Custom skip-list for sorted sets, RDB-style snapshotting, TTL expiry, sub-millisecond p99 latency under 50 concurrent clients.

GoepollRESPDockerGitHub Actions
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induction-fw ESP32 · BLE
May 2026 – Aug 2026

Modular ESP32 firmware for a smart induction cooktop controller — state-machine architecture and a hardware abstraction layer for peripheral init and sensor/display communication. Interrupt-driven routines across GPIO, UART, SPI, I2C, PWM, and ADC, with BLE connectivity and full hardware bring-up and validation.

C++PlatformIOBLEState machines
vision-pulse 92% accuracy
Sep 2025 – Nov 2025

A real-time ASL interpreter processing live webcam video through MediaPipe hand-landmark detection — 24 signs classified at 30 FPS, entirely client-side. Temporal smoothing across frames eliminates false positives from hand jitter; a sentence-building state machine segments continuous signing into words, spoken aloud via the Web Speech API.

ReactTensorFlow.jsMediaPipeWeb Speech API
Teaching Assistant — CS & Mathematics
De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
Mar 2025 – Jun 2026

Facilitated intro/intermediate CS and core math tracks — OOP, algorithm design, discrete structures, linear algebra. Analyzed student performance to identify conceptual bottlenecks; ran code walk-throughs and mentored peers on Git and foundational engineering practice.

Research Intern — Community College Research Program
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Jan 2025 – Jun 2025

Competitive research residency exploring emerging CS and data analysis topics. Partnered with faculty mentors on literature reviews, synthesizing technical material into structured research foundations.

Languages & Data

Go, C++, C, Python, JavaScript, Java, SQL (Postgres, MySQL), Redis, MongoDB

Systems

Memory management, concurrency, non-blocking I/O (epoll), skip lists, hash maps, benchmarking

Embedded

ESP32, PlatformIO, GPIO/UART/SPI/I2C/PWM/ADC, interrupt-driven design, BLE

Cloud & Tools

Docker, GCP, AWS, GitHub Actions, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Linux