Cayetano López Moreno

Cybersecurity & AI student at Universidad de Málaga. I look for the weak spots in systems, train models that see what people miss, and take what I build in front of the people who decide.

Next stop: Singapore, representing UMA at the SMU hackathon.

Cayetano speaking on stage at the ImaginPlanet Challenge final

Track record

Competitions and programs, most recent first.

  1. Upcoming

    SMU hackathon, Singapore

    Selected with the PROVEIT team to represent Universidad de Málaga at Singapore Management University.

  2. Oct 2026

    Finalist, Malakathon — Indra challenge

    Wildfire detection from Copernicus satellite data, going beyond images to raw spectral bands.

  3. Sep 2026

    2nd place, Blockchain for Good

    With PROVEIT, the project that earned our ticket to Singapore.

  4. Jul – Aug 2026

    European Innovation Academy, Porto

    Three weeks building a startup from zero with students from around the world, awarded through a Universidad de Sevilla scholarship. Our team built Rally and was selected to pitch to real investors.

  5. Jun 2026

    Finalist, ImaginPlanet Challenge

    With myMOF, at Imagin's sustainability and innovation challenge. Pitched on the main stage at the final.

  6. Jun 2026

    2nd prize for best idea + Austral Ventures award

    Universidad de Sevilla ideas contest. The Austral Ventures prize goes to the idea with the greatest sustainable potential.

  7. Dec 2025

    Winner, DreamBig Sputnik

    Final challenge of the Sputnik leadership, innovation and technology program.

Projects

Compas showing a burnt-area severity map near Ávila with hectares burnt, active fire front and cut roads

Compas: wildfire reports from orbit

Indra's challenge came with an already-coloured JPG: no coordinates, no real measurements, no "before", and smoke on top of the fire. Most teams stopped at classifying that image. We matched its features against a reference map to find exactly where it was, then pulled raw Sentinel-2 bands from Copernicus for that area. Shortwave infrared sees through smoke, so we could measure the fire instead of guessing.

The result is a live report: hectares burnt, severity, active fire front, and the towns, roads and reservoirs inside the perimeter, checked against the official EFFIS data. Finalist at Malakathon.

  • Remote sensing
  • Copernicus
  • Feature matching
  • Python
PROVEIT home page: aid that only moves when the work is proved

PROVEIT

Donations held in per-stage escrows that nobody can move, not even us. Each stage pays out only once its evidence survives an open challenge window; if the proof fails, every donor is refunded automatically. It even catches AI-generated evidence. 2nd place at Blockchain for Good, and our ticket to Singapore.

  • Smart contracts
  • Optimistic oracle
  • Social impact
The Rally team in Porto at the European Innovation Academy

Rally

An app that brings people back together through sport. Built at EIA Porto, from problem interviews to MVP to an investor pitch.

  • Startup
  • Product
  • Pitching
The myMOF team in front of the Imagin wall

myMOF

A startup that embeds metal-organic frameworks in healthcare workwear. The fabric shows when a garment has reached the end of its useful life, and the MOFs capture harmful substances from the air. Finalist at the ImaginPlanet Challenge.

  • Materials
  • Health
  • Sustainability

Also built in my free time: Biwenger Helper, a fantasy football companion.

Moments

Celebrating on stage after winning DreamBig Sputnik 2025
Winning DreamBig Sputnik, Sevilla, December 2025
Selfie with the Rally team working on laptops
The Rally team mid-sprint at EIA
European Innovation Academy opening in a university auditorium in Porto
Day one at the European Innovation Academy, Porto
Teammate pitching myMOF on stage at the ImaginPlanet Challenge
Pitching myMOF at the ImaginPlanet final
The Rally team explaining the project to a mentor
Walking a mentor through Rally
Cayetano on stage at Malakathon showing how the satellite image was matched to a reference map
Finding the photo on the map, Malakathon final
The PROVEIT team receiving second prize at Blockchain for Good
2nd place with PROVEIT, Blockchain for Good
Presenting the problem slide to the Indra jury at Malakathon
Explaining the problem to Indra's jury, Malakathon
Discussing the project with a mentor during the Blockchain for Good hackathon
Building PROVEIT at Blockchain for Good
Students from many countries playing table football on a rooftop in Porto
Table football with half the world, Porto
Group photo with fellow Sputnik scholars
Sputnik scholars, Sevilla

Experience

Jul 2025
Málaga

Trainer, CyberBootcamp Málaga 2025

NICS Lab, ETS Ingeniería Informática

Coordinated and mentored students through technical projects in the bootcamp's first edition, working alongside some of Spain's leading cybersecurity experts.

Feb 2025 – now
Málaga

Basketball referee

Federación Andaluza de Baloncesto

Officiating competitive games: fast, impartial calls under pressure, and managing conflict between people who all want to win.

Sep 2021 – now
Málaga

Private tutor

High school and university

Calculus, linear algebra and Python programming, one student at a time.

Education

2023 – now

BSc Cybersecurity & Artificial Intelligence

Universidad de Málaga

Jul – Aug 2026

European Innovation Academy

Porto, on a Universidad de Sevilla scholarship

Sep – Dec 2025

Sputnik scholar

Leadership, innovation and technology program, Sevilla

Toolkit

Languages
Python, C, SQL, JavaScript, HTML
Focus
Vulnerability analysis, network security, applied machine learning, remote sensing
Certified
NVIDIA — Fundamentals of Deep Learning (Nov 2024)
NVIDIA — Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++ (Oct 2024)
Spoken
Spanish, English