YA / field notes · vol. 01
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Youssef
Abied

Network & Infrastructure / Computer Science Student

Hi, I'm Youssef. I like figuring out how things work, then building something with what I learned.

right nowOpen to project-based and freelance work, and to an internship, alternance or junior role - whichever comes with the more interesting problem i'll solve it.

A hand-drawn camel doodle
Portrait of Youssef Abied
FIG. 00 / the author 21yo / Morocco, 2026
My portfoliiioooo
02 / contents

Things I'm building

pick a page
03 / about these notes

Systems, stories, and the space between them.

the common thread is curiosity.

Based in Morocco 🐪, I'm a computer science student focused on networking, hardware, development and virtualization. I like working close to the system: seeing how a network behaves, deploying the pieces around it, then building something that makes an idea easier to achieve or to understand. As you may have noticed, portfolio UI isn't quite my thing - so I kept it simple and wrote this one with pen, paper and a few polaroids.

what I work on
  • networking + hardware
  • infrastructure + virtualization
  • game development
  • backend development
languages
  • French - professional
  • English - B2
  • Arabic - native
04 / networking

What I built to understand networks.

start with the hard-to-see parts.

01N9PINAXnetwork security / asset discovery
what I wanted to understand

How do you build a useful picture of what is happening on a local network? N9PINAX is a SIEM-inspired platform for discovering and monitoring network assets.

what I built

I built the discovery engine around ARP, ICMP, TCP SYN and UDP probes, then added vendor identification, OS fingerprinting, device classification and hostname resolution.

what it does

Host discovery. Port and service scanning. MAC vendor lookup. Topology mapping. Report generation. Scriptable & extensible.

N9PINAX project website homepage, with the camel mascot and a live network topology graphic
FIG. 02 / N9PINAX / project website
N9PINAX sign-in screen, the actual application
FIG. 01 / N9PINAX / sign-in screen
n9pinax.vercel.appgithub.com/Dna9a/N9PINAX
the real thing, not a mockup →
05 / creative laboratory

Making games with people who like figuring things out.

different rules, same debugging instinct.

01Lo3ab MakersGameDev club / 1337 Coding School
the chapter

Lo3ab Makers is the GameDev club I represented at X-Ibition, an event bringing together UM6P clubs at Benguerir. Game jams became a place to make, test and learn quickly.

Group photograph at X-Ibition event in a university atrium
FIG. 03 / X-Ibition / UM6P clubs, Benguerir
Moroccan Game Jam edition 2 event artwork
FIG. 05 / Moroccan Game Jam
Echos of Light game artwork - a girl carrying a torch in a castle
FIG. 04 / Echos of Light

Echos of Light

4th place · Moroccan Game Jam, ed. 2

Team of three, with Mohammed Bakha and Abdelilah Missa. A 2D adventure: guide a lost girl through Dracula’s castle, collect six notes, find the way out navigating by a custom light-emitting music player. design and development using Unity.

1337 MedGameJam poster
FIG. 06 / 1337 MedGameJam
Di Boukhancha game title menu screenshot
FIG. 07 / Di Bou5ancha

Di Bou5ancha

2nd place · 1337 MedGameJam

My first game ever, in a team of two with Abdelilah Missa. Stealth action from the Moroccan myth of Bou5ancha a monster reclaiming his land. design and development using Godot.

jam table, 2025
  • 1337 MedGameJam - 2nd place
  • Moroccan Game Jam E2 - 4th place
  • X-Ibition - UM6P clubs, Benguerir
  • Lo3ab Makers jam - helped organise
Lo3ab Makers game jam poster
FIG. 08 / Lo3ab Makers Jam

Lo3ab Makers Jam

Organiser · 1337 MED

Switched sides of the table. Sat on the organising committee to plan, run and host the event for the local dev community instead of competing.

06 / 1337 curriculum

The ones that came with a grade.

defended out loud, every time.

1337 Coding School has no teachers. You build the project alone, then defend it in person to other students who try to break it - and their verdict is the grade. These are the curriculum projects I have finished so far, in the order they were signed off.

LibftNov 2025
A C standard library rewritten from scratch memory, strings, linked lists.
125
get_next_lineJan 2026
Reading one line at a time from any file descriptor, buffer by buffer.
125
ft_printfJan 2026
Implementation of the same exact behavior of the printf function, learning how to handle variadic functions (va_list / va_start / va_arg / va_end),
100
Born2berootFeb 2026
A hardened secure Linux server using Rocky Linux: disk encryption with LUKS, logical volume management (LVM), firewall and SSH....
125
push_swapMar 2026
Sorting two stack using greedy best-move approach, in just few moves as the algorithm follows.
100
A-Maze-IngApr 2026
A 2D maze generator and solver, written in Python using Wilson's algorithm.
125
module 00-10Mar - Apr 2026
Python modules, each built and defended in a peer evaluation.
100
1337 Coding School
how a grade happens
  • build it alone
  • defend it out loud
  • graded by peers
125 = outstanding
  • 4 of 6 at 125
  • all peer-validated
from the evaluations
“great job - I like your fun project and your energy 🐪”rben-ais · A-Maze-Ing
“good explanation, and the first Rocky user I evaluated”bzoufri · Born2beroot
“he understood the core concept of exceptions and raising of errors”amissa · module 02
the Python run
  • 11 of 11 validated
  • 100 on every one
  • 31 Mar - 24 Apr 2026
07 / the lab

What i use to move around.

not a stack. more like a map.

NETWORKING

ARP · ICMP · TCP SYN · UDP
network discovery · packet analysis · security

INFRASTRUCTURE

Linux · Hardware · Service deployment
building and maintaining useful systems

VIRTUALIZATION

Proxmox VE · VMware ESXi
VM deployment · configuration

BACKEND & WEB

Python · FastAPI · Redis · SQLite
JavaScript · HTML
small services, clear interfaces

MONITORING

Zabbix · Grafana
observability · system monitoring

TESTING & QA

Manual testing · E2E · Regression · Jira
finding what shouldn't be there

TOOLS

Git · GitHub · Docker · Bash · C
the things beside the notebook

08 / things I've been through

Experience, in smaller handwriting.

most of it was learning to ask better questions and dealing with problems.

01QasbahLabspart-time QA · remote · Aug 2026 - present

Working with a remote team at QasbahLabs through Discord and Google Meet, following Scrum/Agile practices. Testing backend logic, automation scripts, UI behaviour and basic security checks on a confidential project, alongside functionality and gameplay quality for a game development project.

Tasks and bugs are tracked in Jira; test and process documentation lives in Markdown on GitHub.

QasbahLabs logo
QA / remote
02Forsands Callfull-time telemarketer · Casablanca · Dec 2023 - May 2024

Telephone prospecting and sales outreach in French, qualifying prospects and presenting renewable-energy solutions to potential clients.

Forsands Call logo
Casablanca / 2023-24
09 / still learning

The formal pages.

the parts with dates on them.

ISMO-OFPPT's Digital Infrastructure and Cybersecurity track, 2024-2026. I started 1337 during my second year and ran both alongside each other until graduating. Now 1337 runs alongside the projects, experiments and game jams that make the ideas tangible.

  • 1337 Coding School - MED
    Oct 2025 - present
  • ISMO-OFPPT - Digital Infrastructure (Cybersecurity)
    2024 - 2026 · graduated
  • Faculty of Sciences - Ain-Chock
    Sep 2023 - Apr 2024
  • Baccalaureate, Physical Sciences
    Henri Matisse, Casablanca · 2022 - 2023
10 / last page

Leave a note.

contact me
what I'm looking for

Mostly project-based and freelance work - building, testing or documenting something small and real, with a clear end. I'm also open to internships, work-study opportunities, or junior roles in networking, infrastructure or backend work.

Based in Morocco, used to working remote with a distributed team over Discord, Jira and a lot of written notes. I read every message; I answer the specific ones first.

linkedin
youssef-abied
github
Dna9a
based in
Casablanca, Morocco
remote-friendly
open to
project & freelance work,
internship, alternance, junior roles
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