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 3title: about
 4subtitle: About me.
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 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
12- Security. All kinds of it: operational, physical, threat intel,
13  cloud-native, etc.
14- Infrastructure. Kubernetes, containers, observability.
15- Geopolitics and national security; mostly eastern Europe and Russia.
16- Motorsport. I closely follow F1, F2 and F3.
17- Startups. I work (and worked) for one.
18- Fitness. Strength training, calisthenics.
19- The Go programming language. I love Go and I swear by the standard
20  library.
21- Language learning. Spoken, obviously. Currently learning Russian. Big
22  fan of total immersion and comprehensible input.
23
24## contact
25
26Send mail to [x@icyphox.sh](mailto:x@icyphox.sh) or
27[anirudh@oppiliappan.com](mailto:anirudh@oppiliappan.com). Should you
28need it, my [PGP key](/static/gpg.txt):
29
30```
31FE1B 8FCF E6C1 6222 F157 1C8E 8A93 F96F 78C5 D4C4
32```
33
34I'm also available on IRC as `icy` on [libera.chat](https://libera.chat)
35and [rizon.net](https://rizon.net).
36
37Some of my links:
38- Lobsters [@icy](https://lobste.rs/u/icy)
39- Hacker News [@icy](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=icy)
40- Steam [@icyphox](https://steamcommunity.com/id/icyphox)
41- GitHub [@icyphox](https://github.com/icyphox)
42- Fediverse [@icy@icyphox.sh](https://h.icyphox.sh/u/icy)
43- Twitter [@icyphox](https://twitter.com/icyphox)
44
45I'm generally uninterested in social media and don't often post on any.
46
47If you're interested in **hiring me** -- here's my
48[résumé](https://cdn.icyphox.sh/resume.pdf).
49
50## this site
51
52This site is built using [vite](https://git.icyphox.sh/vite) -- a static
53site generator written in Go. The source for this site is
54[here](https://git.icyphox.sh/site), licensed under MIT. All content on
55this site is available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
56
57At present, this site is hosted on Netlify. It loads no third-party
58scripts. I don't care for analytics or statistics; I value your privacy.