Aman Thanvi, smiling.

Aman Thanvi

Computer science and cybersecurity. Building things. Overthinking. If not that, probably sleeping.

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Projects

Noctty

A native Windows terminal built on Ghostty's terminal core, with tabs, splits, and session restore.

Zig · Win32 · OpenGL · Windows

Source for Noctty

Scrutinix

Paste a suspicious link and get eight separate checks on whether it's safe to open.

TypeScript · Next.js · Threat intelligence · Security

Source for Scrutinix

SynAc

A cybersecurity glossary of terms and acronyms, with a source and attribution on every definition.

Next.js · TypeScript · Convex · Security

Source for SynAc

BetterMan

Unix man pages made readable, linked, and searchable on the web, with no accounts.

Next.js · Convex · Python · Linux

Source for BetterMan

inplain.ai

A public record of how big companies' privacy policies and terms change, with summaries that quote the actual edits.

Python · Web crawling · LLMs

Research

Geneva — Protocol Obfuscation Research

Breakerspace, University of MarylandAug 2023 – 2024

Studied how quirks in text-to-speech could help get past censorship detection, and measured the trade-off between staying undetected and throughput.

Censorship · TTS · Research

Cyber Threat Intelligence Research

NSA / University of MarylandAug 2023 – Dec 2023

Threat intelligence on the threat groups APT40 and APT41, including threat profiles and a briefing for NSA leadership.

APT Analysis · Threat Intelligence · NSA