Gastón Palomeque
Backend Engineer at Welltech
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolGastón Palomeque is a backend engineer with six years of experience building scalable, secure distributed systems and serverless architectures across companies serving millions of users. He has driven measurable impact — for example, reducing authentication latency by 92% at Wazuh while engineering an Agent Communications API used by over a million active agents — and contributes to notable open-source security software. At Welltech he focuses on user and privacy systems, leveraging AWS serverless services to deliver resilient, maintainable APIs for wellness products. A proactive autodidact with an industrial engineering background, he pairs hands-on backend and security engineering with a habit of improving code quality and observability in legacy and cloud-native systems.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Industrial Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Spanish, English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (15)
backend10
back-end-development10
python10
security9
error-handling9
file-handling9
go6
docker6
go-cobra6
go-redis6
redis6
postgresql6
concurrency6
database6
console6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wazuh/wazuh
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:531 reviews, 213 PRs, 626 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Gastón primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Wazuh Open Source Security Platform, focusing on agent management and file handling, with significant changes involving key and ID handling during agent insertion. Their work included bug fixes related to error handling and code quality improvements, such as addressing file read decode errors. The user also demonstrated skills in Python and potentially some security-related activities by creating the configuration.
malware-detectionendpointscompliancecloud-securitysecurity-hardening
GGP1/adak
May 2020 - Dec 2022
E-commerce server with both monolithic and microservices versions
Contributions:2 reviews, 396 commits, 31 PRs in 2 years 7 months
spring-bootcommercedockere-commercemicroservices
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