Fran Morales
Cloud Security Engineer at Preply
Malaga, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolFran Morales is a Cloud Security Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience securing cloud-native environments, Kubernetes clusters, and SIEM platforms. Currently at Preply, he leads IAM/SSO, vulnerability and risk management, bug bounty and SOC2 efforts while designing SIEM and observability solutions using open-source tools and Datadog. Previously he drove DevSecOps and incident response across 16+ Kubernetes clusters at AML RightSource and helped build a next-generation cloud SIEM at Devo, resolving critical Vault and Kubernetes incidents. An active open-source contributor and technical writer for Wazuh, Fran has improved Windows agent reliability and clarified key documentation—work that complements his practical training sessions on Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD. He holds CKA and Security+ certifications and combines offensive-minded ethical hacking experience with pragmatic security operations and automation skills. Based in Málaga, he balances deep infrastructure troubleshooting with a knack for turning postmortems into lasting observability and recovery improvements.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Programming C, Computer Science, Programming C, Computer Science at 42Ingeniería informática, Computer Science, Ingeniería informática, Computer Science at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaGrado en ingeniería informáticaa, Computer Science, Grado en ingeniería informáticaa, Computer Science at Universidad de Granada
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Github Skills (20)
windows10
cybersecurity10
configuration-management10
security10
documentation10
installer9
installers9
postinstall9
incident-response9
powershell8
log-analysis8
compliance6
jupyter-notebook6
csv6
integrity6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
wazuh/wazuh-documentation
May 2019 - May 2021
Wazuh - Project documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:12 commits, 11 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Fran primarily contributed to the Wazuh documentation repository. Their commits focused on improving and correcting the existing documentation, including examples of ruleset syntax, agent deployment instructions, and Kibana configuration. They also updated the documentation for Filebeat index names and centralized configuration, and fixed broken links within the documentation. The changes made clarify instructions and examples, enhancing the usability and accuracy of the project documentation.
loganalyzerreferenceintrusion-detectionosseccompliance
wazuh/wazuh
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 12 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Fran contributed to the Wazuh security platform by addressing issues related to Windows agent configuration and installer scripts. Their commits focused on improving the upgrade process for Windows agents, specifically preventing unwanted changes to `ossec.conf` and enabling syscheck on older versions. These changes included modifications to the installer scripts and configuration files. The contributions highlight expertise in agent management, configuration, and vulnerability mitigation for the Windows platform within a security context.
malware-detectionendpointscompliancecloud-securitysecurity-hardening
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