If you want to know about my past employment in deep detail, please visit my LinkedIn profile. Although if you only want a slight look at my recent past experience plus more details about my life, feel free to download my résumé as a PDF file.

View Rafael Vargas's profile on LinkedIn download_resume

Furthermore, you also can read a list of events I consider important to my prospective employers such as my contributions to Open Source, my assistance to technology events, my talks or any other significant fact. Some of them are written in Spanish, feel free to ask me to translate them.

2010

2009

2008

  • [Assistance] Microsoft TechNet Technology Tour 07.
  • [Open Source] First release of Clipboard LAN.
  • [Open Source] Joined Google Summer of Code with Minix3 project.
  • [Talk] Unconventional web security: LFI, RFI and XSRF by Pedro Laguna and me at University of Sevilla.
  • [Open Source] Released a basic spam filter for the google groups RSS feed from the comp.os.minix.
  • [Prize] Received honors (again!) from my university.
  • [Assistance] Microsoft University Tour 09.

2007

  • [Talk] Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0 and Ajax Extensions and Web Security at University of Extremadura (part of Microsoft University Tour 2007).
  • [Talk] Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0 and Ajax Extensions and Windows Mobile 5.0 at University of Almería (part of Microsoft University Tour 2007).
  • [Talk] Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0 and Ajax Extensions, Windows Mobile 5.0 and Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation at University of Granada (part of Microsoft University Tour 2007). I also helped with the foundations of Granada’s DotNetClub.
  • [Prize] Received Microsoft Student Partner award as recognition of my support with the Academic community.
  • [Assistance] Train The Trainers (March ’07).
  • [Talk] Introduction to .NET 3.0 and Web Services in Imaginática 2007.
  • [Hands-On-Lab] Driven an ASP.NET 2.0 + ASP.NET Ajax Extensions 1.0 hands-on-lab at University of Seville (to promote Imagine Cup 2007).
  • [Assistance] Microsoft Developer Day 2007.
  • [Prize] Third place in Spanish finals of Imagine Cup 2007 Korea in Software Design with my project Open Learning Environment.
  • [Open Source] First release of Hanoi.
  • [Open Source] Reported a critical security bug to MyWebPagesStarterKit developers. They included me in their Hall of Fame.
  • [Prize] Received honors from my University because of working for it external prestige.
  • [Assistance] Assisted to a  hands-on-lab about Subversion and Baazar done by university’s GNU/Linux User Group.
  • [Assistance] Assisted to a talk about Web Services in .NET with WCF and how to consume them from different environments (such as Python). This talk was imparted my some folks from DotNetClub Sevilla.
  • [Assistance] Microsoft Univerisity Tour 2008.

2006

  • [Talk] Talked about DotNetClub Sevilla in Spanish DotNetClubs meeting.
  • [Assistance] Future of User Interfaces by David Carmona at Microsoft Ibérica.
  • [Talk] Introduction to .NET Framework at University of Huelva.
  • [Talk] Development with ASP.NET and Atlas at ÉcijaParty
  • [Talk] Development with ASP.NET and Atlas at DotNetClub Sevilla.
  • [Talk] ASP.NET Ajax Extensions 1.0 at University of Alacant (Microsoft University Tour 2007)
  • [Talk] Developing MSN Messenger bots at DotNetClub Sevilla.
  • [Talk] Microsoft School Tour at  IES Valle-Inclán (Sevilla)
  • [Talk] Microsoft School Tour at IES Majuelo (Gines, Sevilla)
  • [Hands-on-lab] ASP.NET + Ajax at University of Sevilla.
  • [Hands-on-lab] MSN Bots at University of Sevilla.
  • [Open Source] Release of DotNetClubs CMS improved.
  • [Writing] Wrote a book: about Visual Basic .NET Express 2005 for Inated.
  • [Assistance] Microsoft CodeCamp Vic (Jun ’06)
  • [Assistance] Microsoft TechNet Seguridad: Secretos en Red.
  • [Assistance] Microsoft Train The Trainers (Oct ’06)
  • [Assistance] Microsoft CodeCamp El Escorial (Oct ’06)

About me


My name is Rafa Vargas. I'm an undergraduate student of Computer Science at University of Seville, Spain. I am mainly interested in computer security, usability and the business of software.

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