University of Málaga
MSc in Computer Engineering
I studied Computer Engineering at the University of Málaga, through to an MSc.
Story
From a degree in Málaga to founding engineer of Riot’s Player Security team: twelve years of building software, first for infrastructure and players, now against the bots and thieves who target them.
Study
Work
University of Oulu, Finland
Erasmus exchange, Computer Software Engineering
Midway through, an Erasmus year in Finland, studying Computer Software Engineering at the University of Oulu.
Microsoft, Dublin
Software Engineer II, Azure DNS and Traffic Manager
In 2014 I joined Microsoft in Dublin, on Azure DNS and Azure Traffic Manager. I implemented the DNS zone and record management APIs, added TCP health checks to Traffic Manager’s health monitoring, and built a plugin framework that watches security-relevant server state across datacenters, from local administrator accounts to certificate expiry.
Riot Games, Publishing
Software Engineer
At the end of 2017 I moved to Riot Games, still in Dublin. On Publishing I built Content Targeting, which personalises the news in the League of Legends client and mobile app. I also fixed a TCP bug in Locust, the open-source load-testing framework, that had kept it out of Riot’s internal cloud, then co-developed ALF on top of it. ALF became Riot’s standard load-testing framework for years.
Riot Games, Commerce
Senior Software Engineer, Staff from Oct 2022
On Commerce I was feature lead on Riot’s first web store: I designed its architecture, from the content-managed storefront to a purchase pipeline integrated with Riot’s payment systems, and hardened it for production. As a Staff engineer I then built the Game Asset Platform, which extracts image assets from game builds and serves them to the web store and Riot Mobile.
Riot Games, Player Security
Staff Security Engineer, founding engineer
In 2023 I moved into security as the first engineer on Riot’s Player Security team. I built and deployed the bot protections on login, signup, recovery and account management; launched a detection that warns players about unusual logins; led automated account remediation from discovery to launch, so a clearly compromised account is secured without waiting on a support ticket; and built the security layer of the fan-first raffles that keep high-demand exclusives away from scalpers. I also lead security reviews and threat models of player-facing services, and I am bringing AI into the work: an AI-assisted review and threat-modeling process that Product Security adopted, and a weekly threat-hunting agent.
