# Anirudh Oppiliappan (@anirudh.fi)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/anirudh.fi
Headline: co-founder/ceo at tangled
Location: Helsinki

## About

Founder & CEO of Tangled: the next generation code forge. I don’t take LinkedIn very seriously.

## Experience

- **Infrastructure Engineer at CometChat** (2020 – 2020)
  • XMPP over WebSockets (RFC  7395)
  • On-premise (bare-metal) Docker Swarm deployment of our chat/WebRTC infrastructure
  • Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) deployment of our chat infrastructure
- **Site Reliability Engineer at DeepSource** (2021 – 2021)
  • Event-based observability pipeline (Kafka, Telegraf, StatsD, InfluxDB)
  • Monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, AlertManager)
  • Kubernetes cluster hardening; security context improvements
  • Cloud-native security using Falco
  • Tailscale on Kubernetes
- **Site Reliability Engineer at Ory Corp** (2022 – 2022)
  • Distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Grafana Tempo
  • Centralized multi-cluster tracing infrastructure
  • Centralized multi-cluster logging using Promtail and Loki
  • Contributing to Ory's open-source software suite: Kratos, Keto, Oathkeeper, Hydra, ...
  • Edge-caching of latency critical endpoints using Cloudflare Workers
  • Languages: Go, Shell, Jsonnet
- **Co-Founder / CEO at Tangled** (2025 – present)
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- **Software Engineer — Managed Kubernetes at UpCloud** (2023 – 2025)
  • Internal tooling and in-house Kubernetes operators (Go)
  • Architecting and building the new multi-tenant Kubernetes control planes as pods system (Go)
  • Tech: Kubernetes (Cluster API), kubebuilder, Prometheus, Vector

## Education

- **National Public School** — High School (2015 – 2017)
- **SRM University** — Bachelor's degree (2017 – 2021)

## Skills

- C (Programming Language)
- Python
- C++
- HTML/CSS/JS
- Linux System Administration
- Nim
- PHP
- C
- Computer Forensics
- Information Security
- Shell Scripting
- Vulnerability Assessment

## Publications

- the founder box — icy.leaflet.pub (https://icy.leaflet.pub/3mjmpvigvbk2h)

## Languages

- French (limited_working)
- Hindi (full_professional)
- Tamil (professional_working)
- English (native)

## Other profiles

- website: https://anirudh.fi