Born in Dearborn, Michigan, Yasin was part of his school's varsity baseball team and was even Homecoming king. He spent his junior year in Cairo where he met Massoud Shammar and Tariq Al Juhani — two Saudi nationals from Jeddah who soon went to the US with him with F-1 student visas. They also met Osman Ahmed at one point, and in August 2014, the four of them enrolled in the engineering program at the University of Michigan-Dearborn for a Master's degree.
Some time after, Yasin participated in and completed the Nautilus challenge. A day after winning, he received a text message offering him and his three friends a job. They accepted and immediately began working in an office park startup setup, not fully knowing what they were working on — they were given instructions to write the code and it would be passed onto the next programmer. They were under the belief that the stealth startup they worked for was a bioinformatics company that was creating climate change models, leading the group to believe that they would be helping change the world, which Osman subtly posted on the Islamic website about. The group was able to rent out a house in Woodbridge, Detroit with money from this project.
Two months after they started, they finished and submitted the last piece of code. To avoid the risk of their work for Samaritan getting out, Samaritan framed the group for terrorism and flagged them to Research as threats to national security, with activity such as Islamist websites and payments from Dubai to them being made out as activities associated to Khorasan group recruits, and for some reason, Yasin asked his mother to not visit the following day. With this information, it was gleaned that the group was a sleeper cell that would detonate backpack bombs at historic landmarks in Detroit that day. Yasin's three friends were killed by Crimson 6 but Yasin happened to not be in the house at the time of the attack and went on the run. When he was found and cornered by the agents, Yasin gladly surrendered the laptop but kept running and was able to stow away on a train to escape to Canada.
Two days later, however, Control found him and tried to interrogate him about the drive that she couldn't get Samaritan to show them. He tried to plead his case but was ultimately executed.
