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Journey

From software engineering to Blue Team: my computing education, the projects I have built and my preparation for working in a SOC.
  1. 2021–2025Degree in Computer Engineering
  2. 2025EcoVid · University of Burgos
  3. 2026SOC-Simulator and personal tools
  4. Sep 2026SAL1 certification
  5. NextFirst Tier 1 SOC role
  1. 2021–2025

    Degree in Computer Engineering

    I studied Computer Engineering at the University of Burgos. For my final-year project I developed EcoVid, which detects and quantifies copper on vine leaves using hyperspectral images, and worked on it as Associate Technical Staff (Mar–Jun 2025).

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  2. 2025–2026

    Personal projects

    Tools for studying and practising cybersecurity: SOC-Simulator, THM Fieldbook and THM Academy, alongside the Evidence Atlas architecture case study.

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  3. SEP 2026

    SAL1 certification

    TryHackMe Security Analyst Level 1 (SAL1): alert triage and investigation assessed through SOC simulations.

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  4. NOW

    SOC analysis practice

    TryHackMe's SOC Level 1 path and over 220 rooms completed: alert triage in Splunk and Elastic, suspicious email and traffic analysis, and reports with timelines, IOCs and MITRE ATT&CK techniques.

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  5. NEXT

    My career goal

    I am looking for my first opportunity as a junior SOC analyst to keep learning detection, investigation and incident response.

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