Areas of expertise
Software development: C, Rust, Python, shell scripting and assembly (x86, RISC-V). Contributor to multiple open source projects.
Low-level systems software: kernel, firmware, hypervisors.
Security research: fuzzing, binary exploitation, reverse engineering.
Experience
Virtualization Software Engineer - SUSE Software Solutions (10/2025 - present)
Downstream maintenance of the KVM hypervisor for SUSE Linux Enterprise kernels (feature and bugfix backports), with the occasional upstream contribution
Upstream contributor for the COCONUT SVSM, an open source paravisor for confidential computing (AMD SEV-SNP / Intel TDX). Member of the project's Technical Steering Committee since June 2026
Senior Software Security Engineer - Openchip & Software Technologies (06/2025 - 09/2025)
Lead efforts in in platform security (verified boot, device attestation), firmware architecture, early silicon bringup, with a supporting role in other technical areas (power management, device management plane).
Firmware & Operating Systems Engineer - Openchip & Software Technologies (07/2024 - 06/2025)
Boot and runtime firmware architecture & development for novel RISC-V HPC accelerators. Silicon enablement using various prototyping tools (qemu, FPGA). Platform security feature evaluation & implementation (verified boot, firmware security, confidential computting support, attestation).
Security Engineer - SUSE Software Solutions (10/2021 - 07/2024)
Assessment and tracking security bugs affecting the Linux kernel and distribution packages.
Contribution to several projects in the security and virtualization space, including the COCONUT SVSM, an open-source paravisor written in Rust for confidential computing platforms (AMD SEV-SNP at the time).
Research Assistant - Public University of Navarre (12/2018 - 07/2019, 10/2019 - 09/2021)
Network traffic analysis and performance measurement.
Bachelor's Thesis - Warsaw University of Technology (02/2018 - 06/2018)
Implementation of IEEE 802.15.4 encrypted communications on an ARM microcontroller for the H2020 microMole project
Education
MSc. Security in Information and Communication Technologies - Open University of Catalonia (09/2019 - 06/2020)
BSc. Telecommunications Engineering - Public University of Navarre (09/2014 - 06/2018)
Certifications & Trainings
Hypervisor Development for Security Researchers - System Programming Lab Ltd. (06/2024). Topics: UEFI, Intel VT-x, systems software, fuzzing.
Security and the Linux Kernel (LFD441) - Linux Foundation (07/2023). Topics: C, Linux kernel internals, Linux security modules.
Hypervisor Security Research (CODE3) - Zero Day Engineering (10/2022). Topics: C, x86, virtualization, memory safety, OS internals, security research.
Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) - Offensive Security (05/2019). Topics: penetration testing, web security, vulnerability exploitation.
Publications & talks
Validation of HTTP Response Time from Network Traffic as an Alternative to Web Browser Instrumentation - IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (10/2021).
DNS over HTTPS Traffic Analysis and Detection - Master's Thesis, Open University of Catalonia (06/2020).
Ransomwares: characterization and detection through NAS network traffic - Talk at Institute of Smart Cities Conference on Cybersecurity (11/2019).
Effective Analysis of Secure Web Response Time - 2019 Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (06/2019).