Adrián 'Quihacker' Ramos — Quihacker
Software and security engineer with more than a decade of experience. I work across Rust, systems, data, reverse engineering, and offensive security, and I tend to add the most value where there is real complexity: architecture, performance, hardware, or awkward attack surfaces.

Experience

2021-06 — Present (4 years and 11 months)
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Cybersecurity Analyst | Offensive Security & Vulnerability Management | Rustacean 🦀 2025-05 — Present (1 year)
  • Led the creation of VENOM: Stratio’s internal vulnerability orchestration platform (SBOMs, detection, contextual reclassification, remediation) using an event-driven, actor-based architecture (Rust, Actix, CQRS, Event Sourcing).
  • Performed offensive assessments of the platform (controlled attacks, privilege escalations, exploitation exercises) to identify and fix weaknesses pre-production.
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Senior Software Engineer | Product | Data Governance Team 2024-06 — 2025-05 (1 year)
  • Contributed to the core Data Governance platform (discovery, metadata enrichment, ontology-based modeling).
  • Fixed critical bugs and optimized the knowledge-graph query engine (ontologies, metadata, datasets, views, business concepts).
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Senior Software Engineer | Product | Data Market Team 2024-01 — 2024-06 (6 months)
  • Maintained and enhanced the Data Marketplace (Java, Spring Boot) for data catalogs and sharing contracts.
  • Aligned with Gartner recommendations for data monetization and governance, ensuring secure and compliant transactions.
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Senior Software Engineer | Product | Connectors Team 2022-01 — 2023-12 (2 years)
  • Built data connectors (Oracle, MongoDB, AWS S3, GCP, Azure) and authN/authZ flows on a Scala interface with Vault.
  • Contributed to a custom Apache Spark fork and extended the Hadoop FS layer for seamless connector operation.
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Data Engineer | Integration | Retail 2021-10 — 2021-12 (3 months)
  • Optimized Spark jobs for nationwide forecasting and ticket management.
  • Analyzed/tuned execution plans to improve performance and scalability.
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Senior Software Engineer | Integration | Banking 2021-06 — 2021-10 (5 months)
  • Integrated Stratio’s platform with a banking client’s ad-hoc Spark systems.
  • Designed a hybrid Spark architecture (on-prem + platform) for interoperability.
2024-03 — 2024-09 (7 months)
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Software Architect/Engineer | Fullstack Rust Developer 🦀 2024-03 — 2024-09 (7 months)
  • Fullstack Rust app for post-race telemetry (Axum/Tokio backend; Yew/WebAssembly frontend) with hexagonal architecture and DDD.
  • Repo: https://github.com/AdriRRP/simracing-virtual-mentor
2018-06 — 2021-06 (3 years and 1 month)
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Software/Data Engineer | Counterparty Credit Risk 2018-06 — 2021-06 (3 years and 1 month)
  • Designed/implemented risk engines (CEM, SA-CCR, Settlement Risk; metrics such as EAD) for regulatory/internal requirements.
  • Unified Spark framework enabling quants/business to contribute code.
  • Performance boosts: 2h → 15min (PySpark) and ~5s in a C-based PoC; front-ends with Python/Django/Gunicorn.
2017-01 — 2018-06 (1 year and 6 months)
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Data Engineer | Solution Assistant 2017-01 — 2018-06 (1 year and 6 months)
  • Large-scale data engineering for banks: batch pipelines with Spark and near-real-time with Kafka/HBase on Cloudera.
  • Supported critical risk/analytics workloads at scale.
2016-12 — 2017-06 (7 months)
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Junior Data Engineer | Big Data Training & Financial Risk 2016-12 — 2017-06 (7 months)
  • Intensive training and first projects in Spark, Kafka, ML and Cloudera for financial risk.
  • Early exposure to large-scale distributed data processing.
2015-07 — 2015-09 (3 months)
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Web Developer Intern | CMS & Front-End 2015-07 — 2015-09 (3 months)
  • Built/maintained websites (PHP, custom CMS, Joomla) and launched programacion.net.
  • JavaScript calendar widget and blog content across multiple sites.
2013-07 — 2014-06 (1 year)
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Full-Stack Developer | Software Startup 2013-07 — 2014-06 (1 year)
  • End-to-end projects: client meetings, planning, development and delivery.
  • Cross-platform mobile apps (Titanium/JS) and desktop (JavaFX); Git server and intern coordination (proto-DevOps).
2010-07 — 2010-09 (3 months)
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Software Developer Intern | Automotive 2010-07 — 2010-09 (3 months)
  • .NET/C# desktop apps with LINQ; Microsoft SQL Server backend.
  • GUI design and enterprise development practices in the automotive sector.
2010-04 — 2010-06 (3 months)
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Web Development Intern | First Professional Experience 2010-04 — 2010-06 (3 months)
  • First professional IT role after vocational training: MySQL, internal CMS and content translation automation (incl. gaming portals).