Youssef Awad
Head Of Engineering at CTF.ae
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolYoussef Awad is a Head of Engineering and co-founder at CTF.ae with a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native, security-focused platforms that scale to tens of thousands of concurrent users. He combines deep offensive security expertise (OSCP, 90%+ Domain Admin success across 100+ AD engagements) with practical infrastructure engineering—authoring FastAPI-based deployment APIs, Terraform/Packer/Ansible CyberRanges, and Celery-backed scoring systems across AWS and GCP. His teams have delivered record-setting events (Guinness World Record at BlackHat MEA 2024) and supported major contests like DEFCON and GITEX, demonstrating rare ops-to-platform fluency. Comfortable in Python, TypeScript, Docker, and Terraform, he blends rapid prototyping with production-grade CI/CD and OIDC-secured cloud deployments. Notably, he still spends time crafting CTF challenges and red-team tooling, keeping his builder’s curiosity tightly coupled with real-world adversary techniques.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at American University of Sharjah
Arabic, English
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Github Skills (180)
openconnect10
brute-force-attacks10
rubygems10
devcontainer10
bootstrap10
raspberry10
jekyll10
raspberry-pi-zero10
hydra9
bruteforce9
pentest9
anyconnect9
penetration-testing9
near-real-time9
react-native9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DeadPackets/NameChkJS
May 2017 - Sep 2021
Scrape https://namechk.com from the command line using NodeJS
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
command-line-toolscrapenodejsscrapercommand-line
DeadPackets/AUSCrawl
Sep 2019 - Oct 2022
A crawler for AUS' Banner Page. Probably a great tool for practicing data science and statistics.
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 1 month
ausstatisticspythonsciencedata-science
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