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Cybersecurity
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1st MOI National CTF 2025 · 1st AIIEC AI Award 2025 · Top 1% TryHackMe

Yousif Abdulwahab—يوسف عبدالوهاب—

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01 / 07
012025
1st

National Cybersecurity Competition

Ministry of Interior, Iraq

First in Iraq after an eight-hour national CTF final hosted by the Ministry of Interior.

بكل فخر واعتزاز، أعلن عن تحقيقي المركز الأول على مستوى العراق في المسابقة الوطنية الثانية للأمن السيبراني (CTF)، التي نظمتها مديرية الأمن السيبراني في وزارة الداخلية برعاية وحضور معالي الوزير عبد الأمير الشمري. استمرت المسابقة لمدة ثماني ساعات وشارك فيها نخبة الكفاءات من مختلف أنحاء العراق.

022025
1st

AI Innovation Award, for AIOSH

3rd Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Exhibition and Conference

AIOSH was picked among Iraq's top 20 innovations, then ranked first by the jury.

في الشهر الماضي، حصلت على المركز الأول على مستوى العراق في مسابقة MOI CTF للأمن السيبراني، واليوم أتشرف بالحصول على المركز الأول أيضًا في مجال الذكاء الاصطناعي ضمن النسخة الثالثة من مؤتمر ومعرض الذكاء الاصطناعي والابتكار (AIIEC). تم اختيار مشروعي AIOSH ضمن أفضل 20 ابتكارًا علميًا، وبعد التقييم النهائي حصل على المركز الأول.

032026
3rd

NSCE CTF, national

Iraq, January 2026

Podium finish at the national NSCE capture-the-flag.

04Now
Top 1%

TryHackMe global leaderboard

tryhackme.com/p/nuk

Ranked in the top one percent worldwide across web, forensics, crypto and reversing rooms.

052026
5th

Startup Weekend Mosul

Techstars Startup Weekend

Fifth place pitching and building over a 54-hour weekend.

062025
Honors

Board of Honor

Northern Technical University

Listed among the university's distinguished students since 2025.

07Certified
eJPT

eJPT, CompTIA PenTest+, THM Jr Penetration Tester

INE Security, CompTIA, TryHackMe

Hands-on penetration testing certifications, practical exams only.

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Mosul, Iraq
Yousif Abdulwahab Al-Hafidh

Currently building Sela, an AI customer-operations platform for service businesses in Iraq and the Gulf, and running Athar, a security-first software studio in Mosul.

أهلاً، أنا يوسف. أمن سيبراني وذكاء اصطناعي من الموصل.

  1. Aug 2025 — present

    Founder, lead AI architect and security engineer

    Sela

    Sole engineer on an AI customer-operations SaaS: secure Convex backend, agent policy layer, bilingual RAG, voice.

    Next.js / Convex / TypeScript / RAG / Bedrock / Vapi / Clerk / Turborepo

  2. Jun 2023 — present

    Founder and lead DevSecOps engineer

    Athar Company, formerly Oyaps Studio

    Software and security studio in Mosul. Architecture, delivery, and penetration testing before every release.

    Next.js / React Native / Node.js / PostgreSQL / Docker / Pentesting

  3. Jan 2024 — present

    Bug bounty researcher and security analyst

    Self-employed

    Web application testing and responsible disclosure with reproduction steps and remediation.

    OWASP Top 10 / Web / Forensics / Reversing

  4. Sep 2023 — 2027

    B.Sc. Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing

    Northern Technical University, Mosul

    High honors. Penetration testing, cloud infrastructure, cryptography, network forensics.

Penetration testingVulnerability assessmentWeb, mobile and system securityDigital forensicsReverse engineeringBinary exploitationThreat huntingOWASP Top 10SOC analysisCryptographyHMAC webhook securityAES-256 encryptionSOC 2 controls
Next.js 14 and 15ReactReact NativeVue.jsNuxt.jsNode.jsTypeScriptPythonC++CHTML and CSSPostgreSQLMySQLConvexTurborepopnpmLLM integrationOpenAI SDKGemini APIGroqRAGNLPVapi voice AIDockerLinux administrationGitPlaywright end-to-end testing
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Hiring for security or AI work, or building something in Iraq and the Gulf? I reply within a business day.

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