Vibhek Soni
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Vibhek Soni

I’m a backend engineer in New York. I build API infrastructure and security tools, usually by taking a protocol apart first and building on what I learn.

I run FreeTheAI, an OpenAI-compatible API that has served 183 billion tokens across 6.6 million requests (public stats), and I maintain stealth-browser-mcp, which has 2,100+ stars on GitHub.

I finished my B.S. in Computer Science in September 2026 and I’m looking for backend, AI infrastructure, or security work. Email me at vibheksoni@engineer.com.

Work

FreeTheAI 2025 to now

A free AI API and an open model marketplace behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The FreeTheAI provider offers free models, paid plans cover higher usage, and sellers list models at their own prices. I built and run the Go gateway: API keys and accounts, wallet and credits, rate limits, abuse controls, usage metering, and routing by price or speed. Go, Gin, PostgreSQL, Redis.

FreeTheAI request path: clients call the Go gateway at api.freetheai.org/v1, which handles API keys, wallet and credits, rate limits, abuse controls, and usage metering, then a router picks an upstream by price or speed from a free model pool or marketplace sellers. PostgreSQL stores accounts and the usage ledger; Redis holds rate limits and shared request state.
How a request moves through FreeTheAI.

stealth-browser-mcp 2025 to now

An MCP server that lets AI agents drive a real Chrome browser over the DevTools Protocol, with network hooks, DOM extraction, and UI cloning. Python and FastMCP. 2,100+ stars and 296 forks.

secrets.wtf 2026

A defensive index of 181 exposed Ollama and LM Studio hosts, found through internet-wide scanning and listed with remediation steps. The write-ups live on OpenDoors.

UniClaudeProxy 2026

A FastAPI proxy that translates the Anthropic API to OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Ollama, so Claude Code can run against other model backends with streaming and tool calls.

unbuned 2026

Recovers the JavaScript bundled inside Bun-compiled executables, for reverse engineering, malware analysis, and code recovery.

Also t3router and axiomtrade-rs (Rust API clients), VerbalCodeAI (local code search), dma-spoofer and ferrox (Rust research into Windows internals). Everything else is on GitHub.

Experience

Founder, FreeTheAI Nov 2024 to now

Built and operate the API, marketplace, and Go gateway described above.

Freelance developer, Macan Studios Jun 2025 to Aug 2026

Discord bots, websites with custom backends, and Windows desktop software for private clients.

Co-developer, CyberShield 2023 to 2024

A Linux DDoS mitigation tool built with a friend, using iptables for traffic filtering, with versions in C, V, and Python.

Independent software developer 2022 to now

Open-source backend, AI infrastructure, and security tools.

Education

  • B.S. Computer Science, Western Governors University 2026
  • ITIL 4 Foundation, PeopleCert (verify) 2026
  • Linux Essentials, Linux Professional Institute (verify) 2026
  • Introduction to Cybersecurity, Cisco (verify) 2021

About

I got into programming trying to understand how the network tools I kept running into on PlayStation actually worked. That led me to source code, then to writing my own code in Notepad before I really knew how it worked. Python came first, then C, C#, sockets, TCP servers, epoll, and ZMap.

These days I mostly write Python and Go, with some Rust and C. I reach for FastAPI, Flask, Gin, PostgreSQL, and Redis on the backend, and Chrome DevTools Protocol, reverse engineering, and network scanning for security work.

Contact

Email is the fastest way to reach me: vibheksoni@engineer.com