Yehia Elghaly - Co-Founder at CPX

Yehia Elghaly

Co-Founder at CPX

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Yehia Elghaly is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and seasoned red team consultant with 11 years of hands-on experience in penetration testing, exploit development, and threat simulation. As a co-founder of Defenderon and current Lead Red Team Consultant at CPX, he blends offensive security expertise with product-led education, using storytelling to teach children and families about cyber risks. He has authored two editions of "Learn Penetration Testing with Python3.X", spoken as a keynote at BlackHat 2023 and multiple regional conferences, and holds a string of disclosed CVEs and published exploits. His background includes leading global red team engagements and custom tooling for enterprise clients like DP World, and advancing OT/ICS and ATM assessments. Yehia holds an MSc in Information Security & Digital Forensics and completed Harvard's CS50, reflecting a strong mix of academic rigor and practical research. He also maintains an active blog and GitHub, where his published tools and write-ups have become reference material for the offensive security community.

11 years of coding experience

8 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor’s Degree Business Administration Systems, Bachelor’s Degree Business Administration Systems at The Open University Business School

Harvard University Introduction in Computer Science CS50, Harvard University Introduction in Computer Science CS50 at Harvard University

Master of Science - MS Information Security & Digital Forensics, Master of Science - MS Information Security & Digital Forensics at University of East London

English, Arabic

Github Skills (9)

confirmation10

scanner9

scripting8

vulnerability-scanners7

security7

vulnerability7

pentesting1

inject1

xss1

Programming languages (1)

Python

Github contributions (5)

yehia-mamdouh/BetWorm

Apr 2016 - May 2022

Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month

yehia-mamdouh/XSSYA

Sep 2016 - Jan 2023

Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 6 years 5 months

scannerscriptingsecurity-toolscross-site-scriptingbugbounty

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