about me

I’m Anirudh Oppiliappan, and I currently live in Helsinki, Finland. Most recently, I worked at UpCloud on the Managed Kubernetes product (2023–2025). At present, I’m building Tangled—a fresh take on social Git collaboration, built on top of Bluesky’s AT Protocol.

Below are a few things that excite me, and can serve as conversation starters for you:

• Infrastructure and distributed systems.
• The Go programming language. I love Go and I swear by the standard library.
• Startups and VC.
• Motorsport. I closely follow F1, F2 and F3.
• Fitness. Strength training, calisthenics.
• (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.
• Effective altruism, albeit mostly focused on animal welfare for now. I donate to:
  • Good Food Institute
  • ACE Recommended Charities

I maintain a somewhat active list of tech that I use.

contact

Send mail to [email protected].

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

You may also book time with me for a quick chat—I love meeting new people or simply reconnecting.

Some other ways to find me:

• X @icyphox
• Bluesky @icyphox.sh
• Lobsters @icy
• Hacker News @icy
• Steam @icyphox
• GitHub @icyphox
• Fediverse @[email protected]

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The website is built using vite—a static site generator written in Go and hosted at home on Garage.

The source code is available here, licensed under MIT. All content is published under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.