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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
24Some of my links:
25- Lobsters [@icy](https://lobste.rs/u/icy)
26- Hacker News [@icy](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=icy)
27- Steam [@icyphox](https://steamcommunity.com/id/icyphox)
28- GitHub [@icyphox](https://github.com/icyphox)
29- Fediverse [@icy@icyphox.sh](https://h.icyphox.sh/u/icy)
30- Twitter [@icyphox](https://twitter.com/icyphox)
31
32I'm generally uninterested in social media and don't often post on any.
33
34If you're interested in **hiring me** -- here's my
35[résumé](https://cdn.icyphox.sh/resume.pdf).
36
37## contact
38
39Send mail to [x@icyphox.sh](mailto:x@icyphox.sh) or
40[anirudh@oppiliappan.com](mailto:anirudh@oppiliappan.com). Should you
41need it, my [PGP key](/static/gpg.txt):
42
43```
44FE1B 8FCF E6C1 6222 F157 1C8E 8A93 F96F 78C5 D4C4
45```
46
47I have both Signal and Session. If you know me personally, you probably
48already have my number for Signal. If not, here's my Session ID:
49```
50055ac04903fdb8653de6155d89da651f3ca3d4dc8047587887cc39574a8b28d460
51```
52
53I'm available on IRC as `icy` on [libera.chat](https://libera.chat) and
54[rizon.net](https://rizon.net) but I'm likely to miss messages as I
55don't get notified. Use the above methods instead.
56
57## this site
58
59This site is built using [vite](https://git.icyphox.sh/vite) -- a static
60site generator written in Go. The source for this site is
61[here](https://git.icyphox.sh/site), licensed under MIT. All content on
62this site is available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
63
64At present, this site is hosted on Netlify. It loads no third-party
65scripts. I don't care for analytics or statistics; I value your privacy.