I studied Computer Engineering at URJC through the third year, with top honours in Computers and Society, without graduating: I left the formal degree, but not the learning. Since then I have kept up a active, sustained self-taught education in systems administration, networking, encryption and web development, which is precisely what I document in this portfolio. I also completed a postgraduate course in Austrian Economics (no formal qualification), which underpins much of what I write about economics on this website. On top of that I have advanced command of FFmpeg and video codecs (x264/x265), three filmmaking courses, and real hands-on practice in video and audio editing. I speak Spanish and English with genuine professional fluency: I work without friction in either language. I’m located in Madrid, Spain.
Self-hosted private server on a NUC (Docker, LUKS, DDNS/TLS over my own network)
I write in Markdown, and I needed that material to be private by design until the moment I chose to publish it. No cloud service offers that guarantee: there is always a third party with the technical ability to read what you store. So I built my own. I set up a Joplin server (an […]
Designing and building mikejayduran.com (WordPress, bilingual ES/EN)
I designed and built mikejayduran.com from end to end, my bilingual personal site, on WordPress with the Blocksy theme (responsive and lightweight). The visual design went through three complete iterations before it settled, all of them chasing the same thing: a careful interface that gets out of...