Cybersecurity & AI engineer building resilient systems, ML pipelines, and production-grade tooling. Founder of GeekDZ Tech Club — focused on defensive engineering, automation, and reproducible research. I operate like a command-center: lightweight, auditable, and built for the real world.
I'm a third-year Computer Science student at Abbas Laghrour University in Khenchela, Algeria. My work sits at the intersection of cybersecurity, machine learning, and systems engineering — with a preference for shipping things that survive contact with the real world.
I founded and lead GeekDZ Tech Club, an officially Red Hat Academy-certified student organization. I hold a Red Hat Academy Program Educator certification and serve as an instructor for RH124. I compete in CTF challenges, contribute to open source, and take on freelance development work internationally via Upwork and Mostaql.
My flagship open-source project tornet — a Python library for programmatic Tor identity cycling — has over 250 GitHub stars and is available on PyPI. My current research focuses on web attack detection using XGBoost, targeting publication in a Scopus/WoS-indexed journal before August 2026.
Python library for programmatic Tor identity cycling. Designed for OSINT automation and anonymous API testing. Published on PyPI — not a gimmick, a working tool used by others in the wild.
XGBoost-based web attack detection trained on ~93,000 samples. Production API and dashboard focused on precision and explainability.
Full-stack real-time quiz platform deployed live at Abbas Laghrour University, March 2025. Multi-team sessions, JWT auth, WebSocket sync. Built in Arabic, used in production with real participants.
Founded GeekDZ — the only officially Red Hat Academy-certified student club at Abbas Laghrour University. Built from scratch into a recognized technical organization with institutional backing.
Active freelance developer on Mostaql and Upwork. Builds full-stack systems, automation tools, and ML pipelines for external clients with international payment infrastructure.
Active CTF competitor across web exploitation, OSINT, and forensics. Also designs and deploys CTF infrastructure for GeekDZ events.
Ongoing research on web attack detection with XGBoost. Planned improvements include multi-model comparison, CICIDS 2017/2018 dataset, threshold tuning, and SHAP explainability.
04 — Let's Talk
Open to research collaborations, freelance projects, and international opportunities. Direct contact only — no forms.
seghiri.ayad@univ-khenchela.dz