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).
In 2025, I co-founded Tangled—a fresh take on social Git collaboration, with my brother.
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:
I maintain a somewhat active list of tech that I use.
contact
Send mail to anirudh@oppiliappan.com or anirudh@tangled.org.
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:
- Tangled @anirudh.fi
- X @icyphox
- Bluesky @anirudh.fi
- Lobsters @icy
- Hacker News @icy
- Steam @icyphox
- GitHub @icyphox
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The website is built using vite, a static site generator written in Go.
The source code is available here, licensed under MIT. All content is published under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.