Sancho Lerena is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and founder with over 20 years of experience in IT security, network engineering, and systems monitoring. He created Pandora FMS in 2003 and has led its development and company Artica since 2005, combining CEO-level strategy with hands-on back-end and DevOps contributions to the core open-source monitoring platform. His background includes senior security roles at Indra and AOL, with deep expertise in Unix hardening, IDS/IPS and network infrastructure. Based in Madrid, he pairs formal engineering training and an MBA with a lifelong hacker mindset鈥攔unning a Fidonet BBS as a teenager and even experimenting with primitive chatbot logic鈥攊llustrating an early and persistent curiosity for systems and automation.
20 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree Computer Software Engineering, Engineer's Degree Computer Software Engineering at Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
High School Ciencias puras, High School Ciencias puras at IES Leonardo da Vinci (Majadahonda)
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at Universidad Polit茅cnica de Madrid
Pandora FMS is an open source monitoring application whose origin dates back to 2004. It integrates in the same application the monitoring of different infrastructure elements: networks, applications, servers, web, and other specific data sources such as logs, WMI, Netflow or SNMP traps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:2219 commits, 13 pushes, 25 comments in 10 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sancho contributed to the codebase through bug fixes and new features. They worked on solving issues in the lagcheck for modules, adding agent configuration options, and resolving issues with the database. Their contributions focused on improvements to the core functionality and the reliability of the monitoring application. The user was involved in code changes related to alert conditions, as well as changes related to PHP code base and mysql database.
Contributions:6 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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