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I'm Anirudh Oppiliappan, often found as **icyphox** (or sometimes just
**icy**) on the Internet. I currently live in beautiful Helsinki,
Finland and work for [UpCloud](https://upcloud.com) as a Kubernetes
Engineer. Below are a few things that interest me, and can serve as
conversation starters for you:

- Security. All kinds of it: operational, physical, threat intel,
  cloud-native, etc.
- Infrastructure. Kubernetes, containers, observability.
- Geopolitics and national security; mostly eastern Europe and Russia.
- Motorsport. I closely follow F1, F2 and F3.
- Startups and indie-hacking. Admittedly, I don't know much but I follow
  the space.
- Fitness. Strength training, calisthenics.
- The Go programming language. I love Go and I swear by the standard
  library.
- Language learning. Spoken, obviously. Currently learning Russian. Big
  fan of total immersion and comprehensible input.
- Self-hosting and homelabbing.
- Ergonomic keyboards. I like to build them. I also like to use them.
- Electric skateboarding and PEVs.

Some of my links:
- Lobsters [@icy](https://lobste.rs/u/icy)
- Hacker News [@icy](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=icy)
- Steam [@icyphox](https://steamcommunity.com/id/icyphox)
- GitHub [@icyphox](https://github.com/icyphox)
- Fediverse [@icy@icyphox.sh](https://h.icyphox.sh/@icy)

If you're interested in **hiring me** -- here's my
[résumé](https://cdn.icyphox.sh/resume.pdf).

## contact

Send mail to [x@icyphox.sh](mailto:x@icyphox.sh) or
[anirudh@oppiliappan.com](mailto:anirudh@oppiliappan.com). Should you
need it, my [PGP key](/static/gpg.txt):
```
FE1B 8FCF E6C1 6222 F157 1C8E 8A93 F96F 78C5 D4C4
```

I have both Signal and Session. If you know me personally, you probably
already have my number for Signal. If not, here's my Session ID:
```
055ac04903fdb8653de6155d89da651f3ca3d4dc8047587887cc39574a8b28d460
```

I'm available on IRC as `icy` on [libera.chat](https://libera.chat) and
[rizon.net](https://rizon.net) but I'm likely to miss messages as I
don't get notified. Use the above methods instead.

## colophon

This site is built using [vite](https://git.icyphox.sh/vite) -- a static
site generator written in Go. The source for this site is
[here](https://git.icyphox.sh/site), licensed under MIT. All content on
this site is available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.

The font in use is [Inter
4.0-beta7](https://github.com/rsms/inter/releases/tag/v4.0-beta7), with
Inter for text, and Inter Display for headings and titles.

This site is [hosted at home](/uses#home-server-denna) on OpenBSD.