deadpackets/projects

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Things I’ve built
in public

Youssef Awad, cybersecurity researcher & developer and Head of Engineering & Co-Founder at CTFae. This is where my public work lives: security tooling, AI/LLM experiments, data work, and a bit of retro fun.

13 projects 40 GitHub stars 11 live demos all open source

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The project directory

13 projects total

More projects

active · recent
  • ~/DOSArchive 1
    Live

    An archive of my dad Yasser Awad’s old DOS programs, playable right in your browser.

    Astro retro/fun updated 2026
    Demo Source
  • ~/InfoSteal 8
    Live

    A web server that gathers as much information as it can about anyone who visits it.

    JavaScript security updated 2026
    Demo Source
  • ~/AUSCrawl 3

    A crawler for AUS’s Banner page, and a solid playground for data science.

    Python data updated 2026
    Source
  • ~/PiCodeReview

    Agentic, multi-tier code reviewer: cheap-model specialist hunters verified by a frontier-model judge.

    TypeScript ai/llm updated 2026
    Source

Earlier work

legacy · archived

Older builds from my high-school and early-university days. I keep them around for posterity.

  • ~/pwnbox 14 Legacy
    Live

    A Kali-based Docker container pre-loaded with tools, ZSH, and SSH.

    Shell security/devops updated 2024
    Demo Source
  • ~/BannerPlus 4 Legacy
    Live

    A Chrome extension adding visual tweaks and speed-ups to AUS’s Banner page.

    HTML tools updated 2021
    Demo Source
  • ~/CrackTheHack Legacy
    Live

    A collection of interactive demos from my CrackTheHack series.

    HTML security/edu updated 2020
    Demo Source
  • ~/HistoryThief 8 Legacy
    Live

    How social engineering plus a few JS/CSS tricks can leak your browser history.

    HTML / JS security updated 2017
    Demo Source
  • ~/EmailCheck Legacy
    Live

    A standalone client that checks an email across multiple APIs for breaches.

    HTML / JS security updated 2017
    Demo Source

~/whoami

A little about me

I’m Youssef Awad (a.k.a. DeadPackets), a cybersecurity researcher and developer who likes shipping in public. By day I lead engineering at CTFae, where I’m Head of Engineering and a Co-Founder; the rest of the time I’m breaking, building, and occasionally archiving 30-year-old DOS programs.

They cover offensive security tooling, AI/LLM experiments, data visualization, and a few things I built just because they were fun.

Best Emirati Startup at GISEC UAE 2024
Awarded to CTFae at the region’s largest cybersecurity event.

by the numbers

13
public projects
40
total GitHub stars
5
domains explored
11
live demos online

stack & interests

TypeScript Python JavaScript Shell Astro Docker LLMs Offensive Security Data Viz