Rafa Román
Big Data Engineer
Granada, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolRafa Román is a Big Data Engineer with a decade of experience building and optimizing data-driven systems from Granada, Spain. He combines hands-on backend engineering—tuning SQL, fixing memory leaks, and enhancing configuration assessment modules—with strong documentation skills demonstrated through meaningful contributions to the widely used Wazuh open-source project. Rafa has progressed through roles at Wazuh, Fundación I+D del Software Libre, NTT DATA and now Bluetab (an IBM company), applying both telecoms engineering foundations and a Master in Big Data and Data Science to real-world security and analytics problems. Comfortable bridging engineering and technical writing, he brings a pragmatic focus on performance and clarity that helps teams deploy reliable, auditable solutions at scale.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Grado en Ingeniería, Ingeniería de Tecnologías de Telecomunicación, Grado en Ingeniería, Ingeniería de Tecnologías de Telecomunicación at Universidad de GranadaMaster en Big Data y Data Science, Telecommunications Engineering, Master en Big Data y Data Science, Telecommunications Engineering at VIU - Universidad Internacional de Valencia
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Github Skills (18)
security10
vulnerability-detection10
sql10
documentation10
markdown9
c119
sphinx9
databases9
ref9
refer9
markdown-it9
c179
sql-database9
database9
relational-databases9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wazuh/wazuh
Feb 2018 - Jun 2019
Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:396 commits, 130 PRs, 448 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Rafa primarily focused on improving SQL queries and optimizing performance within the Wazuh security platform's vulnerability detection module. They modified code related to SQL database interactions, improving efficiency. Further, the user implemented enhancements for the Configuration Assessment module, adding code to handle new features. The user also fixed memory leaks within the codebase.
securitywazuhxdrcompliancelog-analysis
wazuh/wazuh-documentation
Feb 2018 - May 2019
Wazuh - Project documentation
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:26 commits, 16 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Rafa primarily contributed to the Wazuh documentation repository by updating and extending the existing documentation. The commits include updates for specific Wazuh versions, such as 3.2 and 3.8, and also added documentation for new features like the Fluentd forwarder and SCA rules. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the clarity and comprehensiveness of the documentation for various Wazuh components and features.
wazuhreferenceossecopenscapelasticsearch
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