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:

• Infrastructure and distributed systems.
• 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:

• Bluesky @icyphox.sh
• 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 anirudh@oppiliappan.com.

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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This site is built using vite—a static site generator written in Go. The source for this site is here, licensed under MIT. All content on this site is available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.

The fonts in use are:

• Instrument Serif for headings
• Geist Sans for body (with these OpenType features)

This site is hosted at home on Garage.