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# Hi.

I'm Anirudh, but you'll often find me as **icyphox** (or just **icy**),
on the Internet. I currently work as a Site Reliability Engineer at
[DeepSource](https://deepsource.io).

Here's a list of things that I'm interested in, or care deeply about
(also serve as good conversation starters if you want to talk to me!):

- security
    - low level stuff (think: binary/kernel exploitation)
    - threat research
    - physical vectors
    - disinformation
    - state-sponsored actors
- privacy
    - secure communications
    - operational security
    - anti-surveillance
- free software
- infrastructure
    - monitoring and observability
    - distributed systems
- heavy music
    - metalcore
    - deathcore
- strategy games (I'm not very good at them)
    - Runeterra
    - Dota 2

Here are some of my links:

- [Lobsters](https://lobste.rs/u/icy)
- [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=icy)
- [Steam](https://steamcommunity.com/id/icyphox)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/icyphox)
- [git.icyphox.sh](https://git.icyphox.sh)
- [Last.fm](https://last.fm/user/icyphox)

The only social media I actively use is the fediverse:
https://toot.icyphox.sh/@x


## contact

Send mail to [x@icyphox.sh](mailto:x@icyphox.sh). Should you need it, my
PGP key: [FE1B 8FCF E6C1 6222 F157 1C8E 8A93 F96F 78C5
D4C4](/static/gpg.txt). I'm also on IRC @ Freenode and Rizon, usually as
`icy` / `icyphox`. I welcome you to reach out to me, even if it's just
to say hi! I always reply.

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

## this website

This site is built using a small static site generator written by me:
[vite](https://github.com/icyphox/go-vite). The source for this website
is [here](https://github.com/icyphox/site).

I don't really care about site traffic/analytics, and I never will; 
I am not interested in who is reading and I respect your privacy.

All the content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 
([BY-NC-SA](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)). The
source for this site is licensed under
[MIT](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).