Fernando L
Software QA Engineer at Novatec Software
Greater Granada Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando L is a Software QA Engineer with nine years of experience focused on improving stability and security in backend systems. Based in Granada and studying Computer Science at Universidad de Granada (with an Erasmus stint in Rome), he has practical QA roles at Wazuh, Pearson, and currently Novatec Software. He contributes to prominent open-source security work—fixing socket bugs, memory leaks, and process-handling issues in the widely used Wazuh platform—bringing a hands-on understanding of low-level reliability problems. Comfortable across testing, bug triage, and root-cause fixes, he blends academic foundations with real-world security engineering. Notably, his contributions show attention to subtle resource leaks and compiler-reported defects that often evade typical test suites.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería, Computer Science, Ingeniería, Computer Science at Universidad de GranadaIngeniería, Computer Science, Erasmus+, Ingeniería, Computer Science, Erasmus+ at Università degli studi Roma TRE
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
c1710
memory-management10
debug10
c1110
security10
sia9
log-analysis9
incident-response9
bash6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wazuh/wazuh
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the stability of the Wazuh security platform, specifically addressing issues in the remoted and logcollector components. Their contributions include fixing socket issues, resolving memory leaks, and addressing a typo that could lead to a descriptor leak. In addition, the user enhanced the system by adding a feature to kill all processes upon service stop and fixing bugs reported by the compiler.
malware-detectionendpointscompliancecloud-securitysecurity-hardening
FernandoCP/SWAP
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:96 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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