My history with technology and security

My training did not begin at university, but rather at Christmas 1986. What my family thought was a game console turned out to be a Commodore-64K. At the age of 8, while others were playing, I was studying its BASIC manual. My first “achievement” was to build a silent alarm for my room using my cousin’s broken joystick; the computer detected when the door was opened and recorded the visit.

In 1991, with a clone PC and a 9600 baud modem, I immersed myself in the world of BBS. There I got the schematics for a “Blue-BOX” that I adapted for the Telefónica network. Thanks to that “toy,” I could call Madrid for free to connect to LANDER, the first Internet provider in Spain.

That curiosity led me to become one of the founding developers of IRC-Hispano in 1995. Faced with the refusal of international networks such as Undernet to innovate, we created our own protocol (IRC-P10) and management bots.

We developed a pioneering technique for tracking user routes through proxies, which enabled Spanish authorities to dismantle one of the first complex criminal networks on the internet, resulting in more than 50 arrests across the country.

By the time I began my studies at Saint Louis University in 1996, I had already mastered multiple languages (C/C++, Python, Pascal) and systems (Unix/Linux, FreeBSD). While pursuing my degree, I managed the university’s laboratories and conducted my first intrusion and virtualization tests. My career was consolidated by working on the deployment of Wanadoo (France Telecom) and collaborating on security services for state security forces and the military throughout Europe.

Today, I still believe in the original definition: a hacker is, in essence, ethical. My mission is to pour that experience into creating transparent, secure, and, above all, resilient infrastructures.