29/04/2026
The serpent king. That's what Vasuki means in Sanskrit.
I named my first security tool that because in 2019 my reconnaissance scripts were a tangle of pipes I couldn't keep straight. Bash, mostly. Python where bash gave up. A single HTML file pretending to be a dashboard. It's still on my GitHub if you want to see how it started - cyb3rzest/vasuki.
What you won't find is the Vexta prototype that came after it. I deleted that repo off GitHub in 2020 and rebuilt the entire thing on my local machine - privately, for years. No commits anyone could see. No "build in public" updates. No followers cheering on incremental progress.
Just the work, behind a closed door.
I'd already been doing this work for years by then. Long enough to know the secret nobody tells beginners: the hard part of security isn't finding bugs. It's surviving the noise - and the rejection - long enough to find the one bug that matters.
Vasuki was my first attempt at the surviving part. It wasn't enough.
What came next was a tour of every web stack I could think of: Python + Django + HTML/CSS. Then Python + Django + PHP. Then a six-week affair with Rust that ended with the borrow checker winning. Then, finally, Go.
Six years. Three deletions. One burnout. One folder in my Gmail labeled "closed-no-bounty" that I won't tell you the size of.
Today, Vexta is finally ready.
This is for the kid in 2026 who's about to close their laptop after their fourth "Duplicate" status of the month. You're not bad at this. The tools are.
🛡️ Link in bio.
