About

My name is Mainasara Al-amin Tsowa, I am a software engineer and cybersecurity professional based in Abuja, Nigeria.

I am self-admittedly a nerd. I work on many things from Malware, Reverse Engineering, Databases, Networking Tools and Operating Systems, so I am eager to share all of my little adventures on the internet.

This blog aims to bring my uncommitted experimental ideas to the public because I think they are really cool and have to be good for something, right?

Table of contents

What Is Your Tech Stack?

I mostly work with backend and systems programming languages like

• Go
• C
• C++ (eww)
• Node.js
• Zig
• Gleam
• Python
• Typescript

A lot of them are hobby languages I use sometimes but hey, this is my personal space so I’ll tell y’all about every single one.

That’s Good But How Often Will You Be Posting?

Whenever I feel like.

What Theme Is This?

This blog is built with a slightly modified Astro Paper Theme

Got Any Projects You Are Proud Of?

Yes, I wrote the above heading for a reason.

• Gecko: An experimental systems programming language with strict type-checking and an Object-Oriented paradigm with builtin C interop
• Nomad: A decentralised database format that aims to be the founding block of community driven decentralised experiences
• go-result: A library that adds Rust-like results to Golang
• Scryer: A network-based IDS (Intrusion Detection System)
• NetworkDMZ: An incident response tool that allows you to shutdown all communication in a network e.g (In case of Malware Infection, push this big red button)
• EXEPatch: A red team tool that aims to allow users to create malware payloads that pass as the original programs they are based off of.

Not my projects but I am very proud to have contributed to the following.

• create-hono: Helped improve the getting started experience of the create-hono cli with this issue

• rabbitude: By far my proudest FOSS contributions are in the Rabbitude firmburrow which houses repositories of code aimed at helping people improve their Rabbit R1 experience.

  My ongoing contribution is the vult system for securely storing user credentials/data. Take a look

If you’d like to contact me, you can do so via email or send me a DM on Twitter.