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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 currently live in beautiful Helsinki,
 9Finland and work for [UpCloud](https://upcloud.com) as a Kubernetes
10Engineer. Below are a few things that interest me, and can serve as
11conversation starters for you:
12
13- Security. All kinds of it: operational, physical, threat intel,
14  cloud-native, etc.
15- Infrastructure. Kubernetes, containers, observability.
16- Geopolitics and national security; mostly eastern Europe and Russia.
17- Motorsport. I closely follow F1, F2 and F3.
18- Startups. I work (and worked) for one.
19- Fitness. Strength training, calisthenics.
20- The Go programming language. I love Go and I swear by the standard
21  library.
22- Language learning. Spoken, obviously. Currently learning Russian. Big
23  fan of total immersion and comprehensible input.
24
25Some of my links:
26- Lobsters [@icy](https://lobste.rs/u/icy)
27- Hacker News [@icy](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=icy)
28- Steam [@icyphox](https://steamcommunity.com/id/icyphox)
29- GitHub [@icyphox](https://github.com/icyphox)
30- Fediverse [@icy@icyphox.sh](https://h.icyphox.sh/u/icy)
31
32If you're interested in **hiring me** -- here's my
33[résumé](https://cdn.icyphox.sh/resume.pdf).
34
35## contact
36
37Send mail to [x@icyphox.sh](mailto:x@icyphox.sh) or
38[anirudh@oppiliappan.com](mailto:anirudh@oppiliappan.com). Should you
39need it, my [PGP key](/static/gpg.txt):
40```
41FE1B 8FCF E6C1 6222 F157 1C8E 8A93 F96F 78C5 D4C4
42```
43
44I have both Signal and Session. If you know me personally, you probably
45already have my number for Signal. If not, here's my Session ID:
46```
47055ac04903fdb8653de6155d89da651f3ca3d4dc8047587887cc39574a8b28d460
48```
49
50I'm available on IRC as `icy` on [libera.chat](https://libera.chat) and
51[rizon.net](https://rizon.net) but I'm likely to miss messages as I
52don't get notified. Use the above methods instead.
53
54## this site
55
56This site is built using [vite](https://git.icyphox.sh/vite) -- a static
57site generator written in Go. The source for this site is
58[here](https://git.icyphox.sh/site), licensed under MIT. All content on
59this site is available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
60
61The font in use is [Inter
624.0-beta7](https://github.com/rsms/inter/releases/tag/v4.0-beta7), with
63Inter for text, and Inter Display for headings and titles.
64
65This server is hosted on an Oracle Cloud instance running OpenBSD; this
66site is served by [httpd(8)](http://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8) and
67[relayd(8)](http://man.openbsd.org/relayd.8).