Santiago Bassett
Founder & CEO at Wazuh, Inc.
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSantiago Bassett is a security engineer and entrepreneur with 12+ years building and leading security teams and products, currently founder and CEO of Wazuh, the open source security platform. He previously directed professional and security services at AlienVault and other firms, giving him deep operational experience across SIEM, IDS, EDR, malware analysis, cloud, and container security. Santiago combines product leadership with hands-on engineering—he contributes technical documentation and architecture guidance to the Wazuh project, including integrations with the Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana stack. Based in California, he draws on a Computer Science background from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid to bridge research-level analysis with practical deployment at scale. Known for turning open-source security tooling into a sustainable company, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and practitioner-level expertise in threat detection and incident response. An aside that’s not obvious: his background in professional services shapes a strong customer-focused approach to product design and documentation.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Spanish, English
Github Skills (8)
documentation10
logstash8
elasticsearchquery8
elasticsearch8
elasticsearch-api8
amazon-elasticsearch8
kibana8
aws-elasticsearch8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wazuh/wazuh-documentation
Sep 2015 - Sep 2020
Wazuh - Project documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:3 reviews, 119 commits, 15 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Santiago's commits primarily focus on updating documentation related to integrating the OSSEC-ELK stack and its components. The changes made improve the explanation of the Wazuh solution, specifically its integration with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Commits describe the architecture, components, installation, and troubleshooting steps in detail, focusing on configuration and setup.
loganalyzerreferenceintrusion-detectionosseccompliance
santiago-bassett/Alienvault-Demo_scripts
Jul 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
demo-datanetwork-trafficalienvaultinstallationossim
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