Juan Gutiérrez is a DevOps engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure, currently based in Granada, Spain. With roots in electronics and a computer engineering degree from Universidad de Granada, he combines low-level systems insight with practical cloud and data center expertise. He has worked across companies from Wazuh to JLL Technologies, contributing to production automation, Ansible playbooks, and security platform hardening. An active open-source contributor to the well-known Wazuh project, he has improved documentation, agent configuration templates, and rootcheck security checks—showing a rare mix of technical writing, DevOps automation, and security engineering. Colleagues know him for a meticulous approach to configuration and a genuine fascination with data centers and Linux internals.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Electronics, Associate's degree, Electronics at IES Virgen de las nieves
Bachelor's degree, Computer engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer engineering at Universidad de Granada
Contributions:4 releases, 23 reviews, 181 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Juan primarily focused on adapting and updating configuration templates, likely for the Wazuh agent and manager, to align with Wazuh version 3.12 and 4.0 default settings. They also implemented jinja template fixes and addressed various configuration-related issues within the Ansible playbooks. Furthermore, the user bumped project versions and updated the README, demonstrating a focus on project maintenance and adaptation to new Wazuh releases.
Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Contributions:1 review, 31 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Juan focused on enhancing the rootcheck functionality of the Wazuh security platform. Their contributions included fixing paths and files ignore, expanding the input syntax for ignored paths, and addressing various formatting issues. They also introduced new use cases and addressed related errors, improving the overall robustness of the rootcheck component.
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