About Ahmed Yahia
English
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
Arabic
Native or bilingual
Experience
- EDF (Électricité de France)Cybersecurity InternApril 2025 - October 2025 (6 months)Tours, France• Performed a black-box security assessment of a critical encrypted device used in nuclear power plants• Developed a high-performance and reliable tool for capturing encrypted data• Reverse-engineered the proprietary protocol by analyzing communications, revealing its security components• Identified critical vulnerabilities through advanced cryptanalysis and data visualization techniques, highlighting non-compliance with the manufacturer's stated security specifications• Designed attacks (MITM, buffer overflow, fuzzing) to gain control of the system.• Wrote a security assessment report and presented the findings to EDF France and EDF Energy UK in English
- Google Developer Group ConstantineDeveloper/Co-OrganizerJanuary 2022 - January 2024 (2 years)• Member of the development team, organized events with over 500 participants (DevFest, AI Day) including managing workshops and activities.
- Qualiscope FormationPentester/Cyber AuditJanuary 2026 - Today (5 months)Collaborated with several cybersecurity professionals to assess the security of a cloud-deployed training platform.
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Education
- Master in CybersecurityUniversité Paris-Saclay2025Master en Cybersécurité
Certifications
- OSCPOffSec2026
- Security+CompTIA2025