Cybersecurity Engineering Universidad Europea, Madrid Open to opportunities

Building secure systems. Understanding how they fail.

I’m Ruben, a Cybersecurity Engineering student with strong foundations in networking, cryptography, operating systems and software development. I like technical problems that reward careful analysis, clean reasoning and hands-on experimentation.

View selected work Résumé (PDF)

Degree: BSc Cybersecurity Engineering
Graduating: 2028 (expected)
Average grade: 9.07 / 10
Languages: English · Spanish

01About

Technical depth, practical mindset.

I’m studying Cybersecurity Engineering at Universidad Europea, where my work spans secure development, networking, computer architecture, cryptography, databases and low-level systems concepts.

My strongest work comes from combining theory with practical exercises: inspecting network behaviour, writing software across several languages, analysing security weaknesses in controlled environments, and building concurrent or client–server applications.

02Selected work

Projects that show how I think.

Each one is documented around the problem, the method and the lesson. All of it is university coursework and lab work carried out in controlled environments; the diagrams are illustrative, not screenshots.

01LabSecurity · Networking

Controlled Security Assessment Labs

Worked through simulated security-assessment scenarios in isolated virtual environments, focusing on how to move from initial reconnaissance to evidence-based identification of potential weaknesses.

Problem: Map a target and identify exposed services or weaknesses
Method: Reconnaissance, footprinting, port scanning and service enumeration
Environment: Controlled virtual security labs
Takeaway: Good assessment work depends on a repeatable, methodical process

Fig. 01 — Assessment process

01Reconnaissance
02Footprinting
03Port scanning
04Service enumeration
05Evidence-based findings

02AnalysisTCP/IP

Network Traffic Analysis

Captured and inspected network traffic to understand how protocols behave in practice, trace TCP/IP communication flows and spot traffic that did not match expected behaviour.

Problem: Understand what is happening across a network connection
Method: Packet capture, protocol inspection and traffic-flow analysis
Focus: TCP/IP behaviour and anomaly recognition
Takeaway: Packet-level evidence turns network theory into observable behaviour

Fig. 02 — TCP three-way handshake

Coursework & laboratories

03 Applied Cryptography Coursework Coursework · Cryptography

Studied and implemented core cryptographic concepts to understand not only what they do, but why different security problems require different mechanisms.

Problem: Protect confidentiality, integrity and key exchange
Method: Symmetric / asymmetric models, hashing and key-exchange principles
Focus: Applied security foundations
Takeaway: Security choices depend on the threat and trust model, not a single algorithm

04 Concurrent & Distributed Programming Coursework · Systems

Built coursework around multithreading, synchronisation and client–server communication, with emphasis on coordinating processes safely and predictably.

Problem: Coordinate multiple execution paths without corrupting shared state
Method: Multithreading, process synchronisation and client–server models
Focus: Concurrency and distributed behaviour
Takeaway: Correctness depends on controlling timing, shared state and failure paths

05 Linux Systems Laboratory Lab · Linux · OS

Used Linux-based environments to work directly with commands, processes and system behaviour rather than treating the operating system as a black box.

Problem: Understand and control system-level behaviour
Method: Command-line work, process management and system analysis
Focus: Linux and operating-system fundamentals
Takeaway: System fluency makes security and debugging work far more effective

03Skills

A broad technical base.

Programming

Java
C
C++
Python
Assembly

Intermediate experience in Java, C, C++ and Python, with foundational Assembly knowledge.

Cybersecurity

Footprinting
Port scanning
Vulnerability assessment
MITM concepts
Session hijacking

Foundational offensive-security knowledge developed through academic and controlled lab work.

Networking

TCP/IP
OSI
IPv4
VLANs
Routing

Strong grounding in network models, addressing, segmentation and routing concepts.

Operating systems

Linux
Windows
OS architecture

Comfortable working across operating-system concepts, from the command line to process behaviour.

Software & data

SQL
HTML
Multithreading
Client–server models

Databases, foundational web technologies and concurrent programming from coursework.

04Education

Current academic track.

BSc · 2024 — 2028

Universidad Europea

Cybersecurity Engineering

Madrid, Spain

9.07/ 10 average grade

Period: 2024 — 2028
Status: In progress · graduating 2028 (expected)
Degree: BSc · Cybersecurity Engineering

Relevant coursework

Cryptography
Operating Systems
Computer Networks
Computer Architecture
Databases
Advanced Programming
Object-Oriented Programming
Concurrent & Distributed Programming
Hacking Techniques
Secure Development Methodologies

05Contact

Get in touch.

Open to internships and early-career opportunities in cybersecurity and software engineering. Email is the quickest way to reach me.

ruben.dougall.vk@gmail.com