Adel Assakaf عادل السقاف

Software engineer with a strong mathematics background (two MSc in probability and cryptology) and a focus on security.

I build back-end systems and security tooling. Currently, I develop AI-driven scanners and attack-surface infrastructure at Escape (YC W23), in Go, Python, and TypeScript.

Alongside engineering, I do independent vulnerability research. I've found and responsibly disclosed multiple high- and critical-severity flaws in widely used open-source projects, including a HIGH-severity prototype pollution vulnerability in n8n (CVE-2026-59206). I also contribute to open-source security tooling (httpx / ProjectDiscovery).

I'm drawn to hard technical problems at the intersection of systems, security, and mathematics, from low-level code analysis to applying ML to security.