Elwali كركوب
Senior SecOps Engineer at The Exploration Company
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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Top SchoolElwali كركوب is a Senior SecOps Engineer based in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with 10 years of experience building defensive and adversary-aware security programs across enterprises. He has hands-on expertise deploying and tuning SIEM/XDR platforms, conducting malware analysis, and leading incident response, and spent several years architecting custom SOCs and rolling out Wazuh, OpenSearch and Elastic Stack at scale. As a former Solution Architect and contributor to the widely used Wazuh documentation, he combines product-level insight with meticulous technical writing that improves adoption and operational clarity. He champions open-source security, automating processes with scripting and sharing knowledge through community projects and trainings. Known for blending Blue Team rigor with Red Team perspective, he proactively researches new attack vectors to harden defenses before incidents occur.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Software Engineering / Génie Logiciel, Master of Science - MS, Software Engineering / Génie Logiciel at ENSTA Bretagne
English, French, Arabic, Spanish
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Github Skills (9)
configuration-management10
configurations10
configuration-file10
documentation10
user-manual9
compliance7
network-intrusion-detection6
intrusion-detection6
log-analysis5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wazuh/wazuh-documentation
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
Wazuh - Project documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:18 commits, 14 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Elwali primarily contributed to the project by updating and enhancing the documentation. Their work involved modifying existing documentation files, including installation guides, user manuals, and configuration references, focusing on clarity and accuracy. They updated content related to various components, such as SearchGuard, OSquery, IIS, and email reports, reflecting a broad understanding of the project's features. Minor typo fixes and template updates were also included in the revisions, indicating a meticulous approach to maintaining the documentation's quality.
loganalyzerreferenceintrusion-detectionosseccompliance
elwali10/WazuhPermOwnVerifier
Mar 2022 - Nov 2024
Tool to check the permissions & ownership of Wazuh manager files and directories.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
pci-dsslicensingownershipendpoint-securitysecurity
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