# Xe Iaso

> Xe Iaso is a technical educator, open source founder, conference speaker, Twitch streamer, and VTuber based in Ottawa, Canada. The CEO of Techaro and creator of Anubis - the open-source anti-AI-scraper tool now protecting GNOME, FFmpeg, Linux kernel archives, and UNESCO - Xe built a cult following of 400+ blog posts that mix deep systems engineering with irreverent philosophy. Known for pioneering developer relations teams at Tailscale and Fly.io, and for coining their own title 'Archmage of Infrastructure,' Xe is the rare technologist who turned shitposting into a career strategy and made it work.

- **Role:** CEO at Techaro
- **Organizations:** Techaro, Tigris Data, Fly.io, Tailscale, Lightspeed POS, Heroku, Salesforce
- **Nationality:** Canadian
- **Known for:** Created Anubis, the open-source anti-AI-scraper tool adopted by GNOME, Linux kernel archives, FFmpeg, Wine, UNESCO, and FreeCAD, Anubis downloaded nearly 200,000 times since January 2025 launch, Founded developer relations teams at both Tailscale and Fly.io from scratch

## Career timeline

- **2017-2019** — Senior Software Engineer at Heroku - maintained metrics processing subsystem handling terabytes of data weekly
- **2019-2020** — Expert Principal en Fiabilité du Site at Lightspeed POS - maintained Kubernetes deployments and custom CI/CD systems
- **2020-2023** — Archmage of Infrastructure at Tailscale - founded the developer relations team, created technical articles directly attributable to MAU growth
- **2023-2024** — Senior Technophilosopher at Fly.io - built developer relations from scratch, developed expertise in locally-hosted AI models
- **2024-2025** — Senior Cloud Whisperer at Tigris Data - founded the Developer Relations/Go To Market team
- **2025** — Released Anubis (January 19, 2025) - open source anti-AI-scraper tool that became a global phenomenon
- **2025-present** — CEO at Techaro - the company that started as a satirical fake startup in a blog post became real

## Achievements

- Created Anubis, the open-source anti-AI-scraper tool adopted by GNOME, Linux kernel archives, FFmpeg, Wine, UNESCO, and FreeCAD
- Anubis downloaded nearly 200,000 times since January 2025 launch
- Founded developer relations teams at both Tailscale and Fly.io from scratch
- Wrote 500+ blog posts at xeiaso.net, one of the most-cited NixOS learning resources
- Created the 'h' programming language - a WebAssembly-based esoteric language
- Created 'When Then Zen' - a Buddhist-influenced meditation guide for technologists
- International conference speaker at SCALE, DevOpsDays, All Systems Go, and more
- Pioneered voice-controlled coding with Talon and Cursorless after RSI
- Contributed to the Nix ecosystem with widely-shared flake configurations and tutorials
- Commissioned CELPHASE, a European artist, to create Anubis's anime-styled mascot replacing an AI placeholder

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Blog post on Claude Code and AI tooling; recovering from surgery while continuing to write
- **2026-02** — Released Anubis v1.25.0 (Necron version); published proposal for 'humanity's final programming language'
- **2026-01** — Committed to year-long Linux desktop experiment; continuing Techaro development
- **2025-12** — Anubis covered by Help Net Security as major open-source web security tool
- **2025-07** — The Register covers Anubis; Anubis reaches ~200,000 downloads, adopted by UNESCO and GNOME
- **2025-01** — Released Anubis on January 19, 2025; within days: 2,000 GitHub stars, 20 contributors, 39 forks

## Links

- Website: https://xeiaso.net
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xe-iaso/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/theprincessxena
- GitHub: https://github.com/Xe
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@xeiaso.1337

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Last updated: 2026-04-17