$ cat about.txt

$ whoami

Hi! I'm Mootez Ben Slimen (3angour), Master's student in Cybersecurity with a strong background in software engineering, CTF competitions and Python automation. Excellence Scholarship recipient at MedTech University.

Experienced in secure system development, vulnerability research and cybersecurity event organization. Published researcher (IEEE WETICE 2026) passionate about applying technical expertise and problem-solving skills in real-world security environments.

$ cat education.log

MedTech University (Mediterranean Institute of Technology)

Sep 2025 - Present

Master's Degree in Cybersecurity • Excellence Scholarship (75%) • Tunis, Tunisia

Higher Institute of Computer Science

2022 - 2025

Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering and Information Systems • Ariana, Tunisia

$ cat publications.bib

AI-Driven Threat Knowledge Platform Inspired by MITRE ATT&CK Using Dark Web Intelligence

2026

✓ Accepted — IEEE WETICE 2026 — 34th Int'l Conference on Enabling Technologies, Paris

Proposes an AI-driven platform that aggregates Dark Web intelligence and maps threat actors, techniques and indicators to the MITRE ATT&CK framework to proactively enrich threat knowledge bases.

$ cat experience.log

Graduation Internship

ITC-Consulting

Feb 2025 - May 2025

Designed and implemented a Vulnerability Operation Center (VOC): DNS traffic monitoring for anomaly & exfiltration detection, Python-based CVE scanners for web applications, and automated CVE aggregation, alerting and monthly reporting.

Internship

DefensyLab

Aug 2023

Developed a custom Sysreptor plugin using Microsoft Steampipe and created specialized cybersecurity report templates for assessment teams.

Technical Leader

Securinets SMU

2025 - 2026

Defining the technical roadmap for cybersecurity activities; mentoring members in exploitation techniques, forensic analysis and scripting.

Team Leader & CTF Author

Securinets ISI

2022 - 2023

Mentored 20+ students in Web, Forensics and MISC; authored challenges for Mini-CTF, Qualifications and Finals; co-organized SecuriCON (240+ participants, sponsors incl. Hack The Box).

$ ls skills/

Programming

Python (Advanced)CJavaJavaScriptPHPBash

Cybersecurity

Web SecurityOWASP Top 10SSDLCNetwork AnalysisPenetration TestingCTF (Forensics, Web, MISC, Pyjails)

Web Development

HTMLCSSJavaScriptNode.jsNext.jsReact.jsTailwind CSS

AI & Data

LightGBMRAG PipelinesChromaDBOllama (Local LLMs)WhisperSemantic Embeddings

Tools & Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLSQLiteSteampipePrisma ORMDockerGitFastAPI

DevOps & Deployment

VercelGitHub Actions (CI/CD)Docker ComposeNginx

$ cat ctf_achievements.log

Claw The Flag CTF

2025

6th place

Darkes Hour CTF

2025

5th place

CSAW CTF 2024

2024

Quals 4th in MENA / Finals 5th in MENA

CSAW CTF 2023

2023

Quals 4th in MENA / Finals 7th in MENA

CyberMaze V3

2023

1st place

CyberMaze V4

2024

2nd place

KernelKombat CTF

2024

1st place

GISAMM CTF

2024

2nd place

Cyber Sky Hackathon

2025

3rd place

AIMinds Hackathon

2026

5th place

Space Heroes CTF

2024

9th place

SwampCTF

2024

29th place

$ cat community.log

Cr4ck0ut CTF — Organizer & Challenge Author

Deployed and maintained CTFd infrastructure; designed Web, Forensics and MISC challenges, including advanced Python Jail scenarios.

SecuriCON — Core Organizer & Technical Lead

Co-organized a cybersecurity event with 240+ participants and international sponsors (Hack The Box, Altered Security, Security Impossible); supervised IoT Hacking, Active Directory, Friendly CTF and Attack & Defense competitions.

Training & Workshops

Delivered 4 introductory cybersecurity workshops; conducted hands-on Web Exploitation and Digital Forensics sessions; led CTF training with live challenge solving.

$ cat languages.txt

Arabic

Native

French

Fluent

English

Professional

$ find . -name "*contact*"

$ echo "Thanks for reading! Feel free to reach out."

~/about.txt [EOF]