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download resume.pdfSafehYoussef@gmail.com · Shelby Township, MI
summary
Software engineer and CS student. For 2+ years I've built applied AI and LLM systems alongside backend, cloud, and security work: agentic and retrieval-augmented tools on local and API models, fraud detection that cut a client's losses by a third, and the backend for a live game with 1,000+ players.
experience
Software Engineer (Freelance) · Self-employed
Aug 2024 – present- Built fraud-detection pipelines (IP and behavioral signals, chargeback logic) that cut one client's losses by 31.6% across their production e-commerce stack.
- Designed IAM for 20+ concurrent client projects: RBAC, authentication, and permission controls across AWS, cPanel, and DNS.
- Hardened servers against the OWASP top risks, ran log analysis with SIEM tooling, and remediated the vulnerabilities it surfaced.
Software Engineer · Independent · Roblox platform
Feb 2023 – present- Architected and maintained the backend for a live game with 1,000+ concurrent users: state synchronization, session management, and live patching without taking the game down.
- Built role-based access control from scratch, authorizing every privileged action server-side under production load.
Technical Support Volunteer · Cybersecurity Club, Macomb Community College
May 2025 – presentNetwork, device, and software setup for club events; live troubleshooting.
selected work
- Perimeter →External attack-surface monitoring that treats consent as a security control: no verified ownership, no active scan.
- Server-Authoritative RBAC →A permission system for a live game that treats the client as hostile: it requests, the server decides, and every decision is logged.
- Fraud Detection →A scoring pipeline for a client's e-commerce checkout that cut fraud losses by 31.6%, built to route decisions to a human, not to auto-punish customers.
- Applied AI / LLM Systems →Agentic and retrieval-augmented tools built on both local and API models, including a RAG stack that runs fully on-device.
education
Macomb Community College · Macomb, MI
expected 2027A.S. Computer Science · B.S. transfer track in progress
coursework: Java, C++, Calculus I/II, Discrete Mathematics, Linear Algebra
skills
Languages
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptJavaC++Lua / LuauSQL
AI / ML
RAG & vector retrievalAgents & tool useStructured (JSON) outputsModel evaluationPyTorch fine-tuningOllama (local LLMs)
Cloud & Infra
AWSREST APIsCI/CDCloudflareGit
Security
RBAC / IAMOWASPSIEMFraud detectionAuth & identity
certifications
- Building with the Claude API, Claude Code & Subagents · Anthropic Academy, 2026
- Google IT Support Professional Certificate · Google, 2023
- Introduction to Cybersecurity · Cisco, 2024
- Networking Basics · Cisco, 2025