Pepe Fagoaga
Principal Engineer - Founding Engineer at Prowler
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolPepe Fagoaga is a Principal Engineer and founding engineer focused on cloud security and resilient, production-ready infrastructure, based in Madrid with eight years of experience. He builds tools that help teams find misconfigurations and enforce best practices across complex cloud environments, and he enjoys breaking systems to make them stronger. As an open source maintainer and contributor to projects like Prowler — a widely used cloud security tool — and moto for AWS testing, he blends deep backend engineering with DevOps and deployment expertise. Pepe has a track record in incident response, compliance automation, and security education, having taught cybersecurity while driving product and infrastructure work. His background spans startups and enterprise security roles, giving him a pragmatic, audit-focused approach to hardening cloud systems.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Ingeniería informática, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Ingeniería informática at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English
Github Skills (16)
amazon-cloudfront10
bash10
script10
aws-cloudformation10
boto10
aws10
python10
dockers9
testing9
docker9
configuration-management9
amazon-ec28
devsecops8
ec8
git7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
prowler-cloud/prowler
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Prowler is an Open Cloud Security tool for AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes. It helps for continuos monitoring, security assessments and audits, incident response, compliance, hardening and forensics readiness. Includes CIS, NIST 800, NIST CSF, CISA, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, FFIEC, SOC2, GXP, Well-Architected Security, ENS and more.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:31 releases, 3572 reviews, 153 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Pepe primarily contributed to the codebase by making changes to deployment and infrastructure scripts, and adapting them to the specific needs of the repository. They made changes that involved migrating to the prowler-cloud namespace which indicates the user had responsibilities in code maintenance and deployment. These commits demonstrate an understanding of cloud-native tooling and related infrastructure.
aws-auditingcloudsecurityreadinesshipaaforensics
getmoto/moto
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Pepe primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the `moto` library. Their commits focused on implementing features related to AWS services, including CloudFormation, CloudFront, SecretsManager, ACM, and EC2. These changes involved modifying models, responses, and tests to include new functionalities and address specific service behaviors.
ec2bototestinginfrastructureaws-infrastructure
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