About Me #
From the Racetrack to the Keyboard #
I spent about a decade racing motorcycles, starting at 5 years old, until I eventually focused more on my studies. Physics initially caught my attention, but after the mandatory Catalan exam portion of the PAU (kinda like the SATs in the USA) completely tanked my average, I couldn’t apply for physics… After exploring mechanical/electrical engineering for 1 year and energy engineering for another year, I stumbled upon computer engineering. This field wasn’t my first choice, but I always had some interest in it and ended up enjoying it a lot.
My coding journey began with front-end web development, which I chose to learn while earning my Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering. But I soon realized two things:
- My “design skills” are non-existent.
- I hate JS.
Shortly after, I discovered Cybersecurity through TryHackMe (THM), and it really clicked with me. Malware development and anything related to penetration testing and red teaming became my obsessions, and I haven’t stopped learning since. I was pretty focused on learning stuff through the HackTheBox (HTB) platform, especially while I was preparing to take the exam for my OSCP certification and finishing my Bachelor’s thesis. My Bachelor’s thesis is titled: Ethical Hacking Framework for File System Hot-Swapping, and it’s a project in which I developed a framework for testing an interesting concept referred to as “USB file system hot-swapping”.
Shortly after earning my Bachelor’s degree and OSCP certification, I joined the Maldev Academy. Also, I joined a Master’s degree program in which I wrote my thesis: Antivirus Evasion Techniques.
Where I Am Now #
After a 4-year internship as an IT engineer at Uniphore, I pivoted to Cybersecurity at Applus+ Laboratories, where I performed security evaluations on smart cards and mobile banking applications, SDKs, and Android/iOS protectors like DexProtector. I’m currently working as a reverse engineer at Cognizant, in a small team that is part of the Google Play Protect project.
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Uniphore Software Systems
07/2020 - 02/2024
IT Engineer
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Applus+ Laboratories
02/2024 - 01/2026
Cybersecurity Engineer
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Cognizant
01/2026 - Present
Sr. Associate