Pedro De Castro
Community Director at Wazuh
Spain
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Top SchoolPedro De Castro is a hands-on security engineer and technology leader with a decade of experience building scalable EDR and SIEM products and teams from the ground up. As an early and founding engineer of Wazuh who later scaled the organization to ~100 engineers and served as CTO, he blends deep low-level development (C, Python, NodeJS) with product, infra and SaaS architecture expertise on AWS. He has designed and shipped core modules—vulnerability detection, file integrity monitoring, policy assessment—and led the creation of Wazuh’s SaaS and Open Source platform used for massive alert volumes. Pedro pairs technical leadership with customer-facing roles in pre/post-sales and compliance (PCI DSS), and contributes to the flagship Wazuh repo (notably Windows agent installer improvements) and its documentation. Now focused on driving community success and AI-powered support workflows, he’s known for pragmatic execution, cross-functional team-building, and a developer-first management style.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Universidad de GranadaMaster's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of Lodz
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (17)
wazuh10
amazon-elasticsearch10
cybersecurity10
security10
elasticsearchquery10
installer10
logstash10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
postinstall10
installers10
documentation10
elasticsearch-api10
ip9
tcp9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
wazuh/wazuh
Aug 2017 - Jul 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:1 release, 4 reviews, 19 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Pedro primarily contributed to the Windows agent installer, focusing on enhancing security-related configurations. Their work involved adding and modifying parameters for the `agent-auth.exe` utility within the installer, including implementing options for agent authentication, password verification, and manager verification. They also addressed security-related aspects by adding quotes to specific path variables and modifying the uninstall process to better manage file retention, aligning with the project's security-focused goals. Furthermore, the user enabled keep-alive on TCP connections.
malware-detectionendpointscompliancecloud-securitysecurity-hardening
wazuh/wazuh-documentation
Sep 2017 - Mar 2020
Wazuh - Project documentation
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:2 reviews, 26 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Pedro's commits primarily focus on modifying and updating the project's documentation, specifically within the installation guides for Elastic Stack. Their contributions involve reverting changes related to specific versioning, fixing branch redirections, and adapting the Logstash installation guide. Further, they updated the installation guides to reflect changes in Elastic Stack version 6.0 and Wazuh 3.0, and also addressed inconsistencies in the upgrade guides.
loganalyzerreferenceintrusion-detectionosseccompliance
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