Xe Iaso
Canadian developer, writer and speaker; created the Anubis anti-scraper filter.
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Anubis (software) (created it)
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- Xe Iaso is a software engineer, technical writer and conference speaker based in Ottawa, Canada.
- They created Anubis, open-source software that makes browsers solve a proof-of-work challenge to keep AI scrapers off websites.
- They wrote it after Amazon's crawler overloaded their Git server.
- They have built developer relations teams at Tailscale, Fly.io and Tigris Data, and blog at xeiaso.net.
Key facts
- Created
- Anubis, a proof-of-work web scraper filter used by Git forges and open-source projects2
- Role
- CEO of Techaro; Developer Relations at Tigris Data from September 2024 (as of 2026)1
- Earlier
- Fly.io, 2023 to 2024; Tailscale, December 2020 to October 2023; Lightspeed POS, 2019 to 2020; Heroku, 2017 to 20191
- Writing
- Blog at xeiaso.net on Go, Nix, AI hosting and bot filtering1
Roles
Founded
Before
Part of until Oct 2023
Tailscale (founded the developer relations team) source on Tailscale
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