Hi, I'm DeadPackets (Youssef Awad)!
💻 A passionate cybersecurity researcher, programmer and hacker!
$> whoami

Graduate of Computer Engineering (with Comp Sci minor) from AUS
Head of Engineering & Co-Founder at CTFae
I enjoy creating/playing in CTFs and hacking/breaking things
I absolutely love Python and Docker
I love the dev/cybersec community and enjoy teaching others new things
You can contact me anytime for questions, I love answering them
I am always building new things or contributing to OSS
- ⭐ Over my 7 years on GitHub, I have opened 111 issues, opened 56 PRs, pushed 1482 commits, created 39 repositories, contributed to 8 projects, gathered 50 stars across all my repos and gists
$> ls -la projects/
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$> cat skills.txt
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$> cat life.txt | grep "Achievements"
- [2023] 💻 Hosted the CTF for GITEX Africa in Morocco with CTFae @ GITEX Africa 2023 (link)
- [2023] 💻 Hosted the CTF for the last HITB in Amsterdam with CTFae @ HITBAMS 2023 (link)
- [2022] 💻 Hosted a CTF for the return of Dubai Police CTF in the UAE with CTFae @ DPCTF 2022 (link)
- [2022] 💻 Hosted the CTF for the first ever BlackHat in Saudi Arabia with CTFae @ BlackHat 2022 (link)
- [2022] 💍 Got engaged to the wonderful and beautiful Dana Osama (link)
- [2022] 💻 Hosted a CTF for the Government of Thailand with CTFae @ TBCERT 2022 (link)
- [2021] 💻 Hosted the largest CTF in the Middle East with CTFae @ AtHack 2021 (link)
- [2021] 💻 Hosted the official jeopardy CTF with CTFae @ HITB CyberWeek 2021 (link)
- [2021] 🎤 Gave a 2-day long training in Attack Defense CTFs @ HITB SECCONF (link_1) (link_2)
- [2021] 🥇 1st Place Winner at The Hunt SOCathon hosted at GISEC (link)
- [2021] 🏆 Created & hosted the longest CTF in UAE with CTFae (link)
- [2021] 🏆 Awarded the "Outstanding CSE Student Talent Award" at AUS (link)
- [2020] 🎤 Demonstrated a password stealing Windows attack @ GISEC (link)
- [2020] 🥇 1st Place Winner at CyberKnight CTF (link)
- [2020] 🥇 1st Place Winner at CyberTalents UAE Regional CTF (link)
- [2020] 🥇 1st Place Winner at HITB Lockdown CTF (link)
- [2019] 🎤 Invited to give a talk at DESC UAE
- [2019] 🥇 1st Place Winner at CyberBattle Of The Emirates (link)
- [2019] 🥈 2nd Place Winner at HITB AI Challenge (link)
- [2019] 🥉 3rd Place Winner at CyberTalents Arab Regional CTF (link)
- [2019] 🥇 1st Place Winner at CyberTalents UAE Regional CTF (link)
- [2019] 🥇 1st Place Winner at Dubai Police CTF (link)
- [2018] 🥇 1st Place Winner at CyberQuest Attack & Defence (link)
- [2016] 🥇 1st Place Winner at CyberQuest CTF (link)
- [2016] 🥈 2nd Place Winner at NYU CSAW Forensics CTF (link)
$> wakatime --show-coding-stats
NOTE: This data only shows how long I have spent writing a language since March 2021. It does not reflect all languages I have ever written.
$> github-cli --recent-activity
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- 🍴 Forked DeadPackets/Auto-GPT from Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT
- ⬆️ Pushed 1 commit to DeadPackets/pwnbox
$> tryhackme --rank
Top 10 in all of the UAE with over 33,000 points!
$> git show stats
$> twitter_cli --latest-tweets
$> spotify_cli --currently-playing
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