1---
 2template: page.html
 3title: about
 4subtitle: About me.
 5---
 6
 7I'm Anirudh Oppiliappan, often found as **icyphox** (or sometimes just
 8**icy**) on the Internet. I live in Bangalore, India and work for
 9[Ory](https://ory.sh) as a Site Reliability Engineer. Below are a few
10things that interest me, and can serve as conversation starters for you:
11- security -- in and around cloud-native tech/containers, opsec, threat intel
12- infrastructure
13- geopolitics and natsec -- specifically Russia and eastern Europe
14- motorsport -- Formula 1/2/3/E
15- startups
16- fitness
17- OpenBSD
18- the Go programming language
19
20## contact
21
22Send mail to [x@icyphox.sh](mailto:x@icyphox.sh) or
23[anirudh@oppiliappan.com](mailto:anirudh@oppiliappan.com). Should you
24need it, my [PGP key](/static/gpg.txt):
25
26```
27FE1B 8FCF E6C1 6222 F157 1C8E 8A93 F96F 78C5 D4C4
28```
29
30I'm also available on IRC as `icy` on [libera.chat](https://libera.chat)
31and [rizon.net](https://rizon.net).
32
33Some of my links:
34- Lobsters [@icy](https://lobste.rs/u/icy)
35- Hacker News [@icy](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=icy)
36- Steam [@icyphox](https://steamcommunity.com/id/icyphox)
37- GitHub [@icyphox](https://github.com/icyphox)
38- Fediverse [@x@toot.icyphox.sh](https://toot.icyphox.sh/@x)
39- Twitter [@icyphox](https://twitter.com/icyphox)
40
41I'm generally uninterested in social media and don't often post on any.
42
43If you're interested in **hiring me** -- here's my
44[résumé](https://x.icyphox.sh/resume.pdf).
45
46## this site
47
48This site is built using [vite](https://git.icyphox.sh/vite) -- a static
49site generator written in Go. The source for this site is
50[here](https://git.icyphox.sh/site), licensed under MIT. All content on
51this site is available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
52
53At present, this site is hosted on Netlify. It loads no third-party
54scripts. I don't care for analytics or statistics; I value your privacy.