Harshit Chaudhary
ReportDeveloper in India. I build and maintain Vortix alone, alongside a full-time job, and test every release by hand on a real Mac and a Linux machine against real VPN servers.
Vortix
Terminal UI for WireGuard and OpenVPN with multi-tunnel control, real-time telemetry, and leak guarding. It runs several tunnels at once, and has a kill switch that blocks traffic if a VPN drops, so the user's real IP never leaks. It's packaged in Arch Linux extra, Homebrew, crates.io and npm, ships .deb/.rpm packages, and is listed in awesome-rust and awesome-tuis.
Six months of development
Months 1-2: start at boot with the kill switch on before the network (#16, #250). Months 3-4: OpenVPN and DNS-leak tests in CI. Months 5-6: exclude LAN or chosen networks from a tunnel (#15). Budget (INR): maintainer time 2,55,000; two VPN test servers for a year 24,000; ARM64 test device 12,000; Apple Developer account 9,000. A report after each milestone; all work stays MIT-licensed.