about

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 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.
• (Spoken) language learning. Currently learning Finnish. 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.
• 35mm film photography.
• Veganism, ethics and plant-based nutrition.

Some of my links:

• Lobsters @icy
• Hacker News @icy
• Steam @icyphox
• GitHub @icyphox
• Fediverse @icy@icyphox.sh

If you’re interested in hiring me—here’s my résumé.

contact

Send mail to x@icyphox.sh or anirudh@oppiliappan.com. Should you need it, my PGP key:

FE1B 8FCF E6C1 6222 F157 1C8E 8A93 F96F 78C5 D4C4

If you have my phone number, you can reach me on Signal/iMessage. My Signal username is icy.19.

I’m available on IRC as icy on libera.chat and rizon.net but I’m likely to miss messages as I don’t get notified. Use the above methods instead.

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