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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 and indie-hacking. Admittedly, I don't know much but I follow
19  the space.
20- Fitness. Strength training, calisthenics.
21- The Go programming language. I love Go and I swear by the standard
22  library.
23- (Spoken) language learning. Currently learning Finnish. Big
24  fan of total immersion and comprehensible input.
25- Self-hosting and homelabbing.
26- Ergonomic keyboards. I like to build them. I also like to use them.
27- Electric skateboarding and PEVs.
28- 35mm film photography.
29- Veganism, ethics and plant-based nutrition.
30
31Some of my links:
32- Lobsters [@icy](https://lobste.rs/u/icy)
33- Hacker News [@icy](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=icy)
34- Steam [@icyphox](https://steamcommunity.com/id/icyphox)
35- GitHub [@icyphox](https://github.com/icyphox)
36- Fediverse [@icy@icyphox.sh](https://h.icyphox.sh/@icy)
37
38If you're interested in **hiring me** -- here's my
39[résumé](https://cdn.icyphox.sh/resume.pdf).
40
41## contact
42
43Send mail to [x@icyphox.sh](mailto:x@icyphox.sh) or
44[anirudh@oppiliappan.com](mailto:anirudh@oppiliappan.com). Should you
45need it, my [PGP key](/static/gpg.txt):
46```
47FE1B 8FCF E6C1 6222 F157 1C8E 8A93 F96F 78C5 D4C4
48```
49
50If you have my phone number, you can reach me on Signal/iMessage. My
51Signal username is
52[icy.19](https://signal.me/#eu/Nphsc2OCoWjih4d8jfuRRV0v6fJNPOXG9lY1X6B4vYb7KPR4wdpKu6SScSzuztil).
53
54I'm available on IRC as `icy` on [libera.chat](https://libera.chat) and
55[rizon.net](https://rizon.net) but I'm likely to miss messages as I
56don't get notified. Use the above methods instead.
57
58## colophon
59
60This site is built using [vite](https://git.icyphox.sh/vite) -- a static
61site generator written in Go. The source for this site is
62[here](https://git.icyphox.sh/site), licensed under MIT. All content on
63this site is available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
64
65The font in use is [Inter
664.0-beta7](https://github.com/rsms/inter/releases/tag/v4.0-beta7), with
67Inter for text, and Inter Display for headings and titles.
68
69This site is [hosted at home](/uses#home-server-denna) on OpenBSD.