Hi, I'm DeadPackets (Youssef Awad)!

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• Head of Engineering & Co-Founder at CTFae
• OSCP-certified. I ship AI and break it like an attacker (5+ years in offensive security)
• DevOps enthusiast. I automate everything
• Cybersecurity educator and community builder
• Computer Engineering graduate (+ CS minor) from AUS
• ⭐ Over my 10 years on GitHub, I have opened 151 issues, opened 155 PRs, pushed 6316 commits, created 43 repositories, contributed to 61 projects, gathered 87 stars across all my repos and gists

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⚙️ Platform & Infrastructure

Challenge Deployment API Provisions containerized CTF challenges to AWS ECS on demand and auto-scales. Ran the world's largest CTF at 10,000+ concurrent users (BlackHat MEA, Guinness World Record).	CyberRanges IaC platform that spins up multi-VM attack-defense environments across AWS and GCP.
Attack-Defense Checksystem Real-time scoring for 100+ teams at once, with Celery workers and PgCat-pooled PostgreSQL.

🤖 Agentic AI & LLMs

ProjectHailMary Solo-operated agentic vulnerability finder. One orchestrator drives 60+ charter-bearing subagents through a validation gauntlet into a deterministic CLEAR / HOLD / REJECT verdict. 23 modules, 465+ tests.	LLM-AD-Defense Autonomous SOC analyst on Gemini 2.5 Pro. It ingests Wazuh EDR alerts, reasons about the threat, and runs its own remediation, down to isolating a compromised Active Directory account.
LLMChessArena Any LLM vs any LLM, Stockfish, or a human, over OpenRouter. Real-time WebSocket streaming, move-by-move Stockfish evals, and a live leaderboard. (code)	BuzzerMinds A live multiplayer trivia party game. Every question is LLM-generated and grounded against real sources via SearXNG, with fact cards and strict schemas to keep the AI honest.
PiCodeReview Multi-tier agentic code reviewer on the Pi SDK: cheap-model hunters over-report, a frontier-model judge re-reads the code and prunes the false positives. A 30-minute take-home challenge.

📊 Data & Web

VisualizeAUS 20 years of my university's course data turned into an interactive exploration (Plotly + Quarto).	AUSCrawl The crawler behind it: pulls AUS's Banner registration system into a clean, analyzable dataset.
DOSArchive My dad's (Yasser Awad) old DOS programs, emulated so you can run them right in your browser.

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🤖 Applied AI / LLMs

I build systems that use LLMs, not train them

Multi-agent orchestration, RAG, evals & guardrails, prompt engineering.

🛡️ Security

OSCP · 5+ years offensive

Penetration testing, red teaming, Active Directory, vulnerability assessment.

💬 Languages

Daily drivers

🎨 Frontend

Type-safe and modern

🔧 Backend & APIs

Async, typed, queue-driven

Hono · Celery · Pydantic · SQLAlchemy

☁️ Cloud / DevOps

Ship it and automate it

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