
Jorge Sanchez contributed to the Wazuh open-source ecosystem, focusing on backend development and DevOps automation across the wazuh-indexer, wazuh-indexer-plugins, and wazuh repositories. He engineered features such as CTI content indexing, SCA and FIM data modeling, and cross-cluster search environments, while modernizing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and shell scripting. Jorge addressed deployment reliability by refining packaging workflows, automating cross-distribution testing, and hardening security configurations. His work included OpenSearch integration, schema standardization, and artifact management with AWS S3, using Java, Bash, and YAML. These efforts improved data fidelity, release stability, and operational security for large-scale deployments.

October 2025 monthly summary: Delivered two core features in wazuh-indexer-plugins—Integrations Maintenance with WCS data schema enhancements and Index Pattern Naming Standardization—along with a critical bug fix in wazuh-indexer that improves the reliability of the security initialization workflow. These efforts deliver tangible business value: enhanced data enrichment for stateless indices, consistent index naming across environments, and clearer setup guidance for users during onboarding. Key outcomes include reduced manual troubleshooting, better maintainability, and faster integration rollouts. Technologies demonstrated include Docker-based workflow alignment, WCS-based data modeling, standardization of index patterns, and robust shell scripting to escape commands in initialization scripts.
October 2025 monthly summary: Delivered two core features in wazuh-indexer-plugins—Integrations Maintenance with WCS data schema enhancements and Index Pattern Naming Standardization—along with a critical bug fix in wazuh-indexer that improves the reliability of the security initialization workflow. These efforts deliver tangible business value: enhanced data enrichment for stateless indices, consistent index naming across environments, and clearer setup guidance for users during onboarding. Key outcomes include reduced manual troubleshooting, better maintainability, and faster integration rollouts. Technologies demonstrated include Docker-based workflow alignment, WCS-based data modeling, standardization of index patterns, and robust shell scripting to escape commands in initialization scripts.
September 2025 demonstrated strong progress across wazuh-indexer-plugins and wazuh-indexer, focusing on data integrity, build reliability, and streamlined CI/CD. Key deliverables include adding temporal auditing capability, stabilizing OpenSearch builds, refreshing integrations and workflows, and hardening deployment pipelines. The work reduces risk in deployments, accelerates auditing and compliance, and improves developer productivity through automation and clearer upgrade paths.
September 2025 demonstrated strong progress across wazuh-indexer-plugins and wazuh-indexer, focusing on data integrity, build reliability, and streamlined CI/CD. Key deliverables include adding temporal auditing capability, stabilizing OpenSearch builds, refreshing integrations and workflows, and hardening deployment pipelines. The work reduces risk in deployments, accelerates auditing and compliance, and improves developer productivity through automation and clearer upgrade paths.
August 2025 monthly summary for wazuh-indexer-plugins, wazuh-indexer, and wazuh. Key features delivered include: OpenSearch stable upgrade to 3.2.0 in wazuh-indexer-plugins and updates to third-party dependencies with corrected docs; macOS data collection enhancements and unified user identity fields in wazuh. Major bug fixed: S3 artifact upload destination migrated to xdrsiem-packages-dev-internal to ensure CI artifacts are stored in the correct S3 bucket. Overall impact includes improved stability, reliability of build artifacts, and richer macOS telemetry enabling faster analytics and troubleshooting. Technologies demonstrated include OpenSearch, AWS S3 artifact handling, cross-repo collaboration, data collection schema unification, and documentation accuracy.
August 2025 monthly summary for wazuh-indexer-plugins, wazuh-indexer, and wazuh. Key features delivered include: OpenSearch stable upgrade to 3.2.0 in wazuh-indexer-plugins and updates to third-party dependencies with corrected docs; macOS data collection enhancements and unified user identity fields in wazuh. Major bug fixed: S3 artifact upload destination migrated to xdrsiem-packages-dev-internal to ensure CI artifacts are stored in the correct S3 bucket. Overall impact includes improved stability, reliability of build artifacts, and richer macOS telemetry enabling faster analytics and troubleshooting. Technologies demonstrated include OpenSearch, AWS S3 artifact handling, cross-repo collaboration, data collection schema unification, and documentation accuracy.
July 2025 monthly summary: Delivered security hardening and reliability improvements across Wazuh Indexer and its plugins, established a Cross-Cluster Search environment, and refreshed CI/CD and dependencies to support OpenSearch 3.1.0+ and ARM64 packaging. Result: reduced downtime, more stable security configuration, and a foundation for scalable multi-cluster search.
July 2025 monthly summary: Delivered security hardening and reliability improvements across Wazuh Indexer and its plugins, established a Cross-Cluster Search environment, and refreshed CI/CD and dependencies to support OpenSearch 3.1.0+ and ARM64 packaging. Result: reduced downtime, more stable security configuration, and a foundation for scalable multi-cluster search.
June 2025 monthly summary focused on delivering indexing enhancements, security-aware CI/CD improvements, and packaging optimizations across wazuh-indexer-plugins, wazuh-indexer, and wazuh. The month saw concrete progress in data fidelity, build reliability, and operational security, with business value realized through clearer security analytics, faster and safer release cycles, and leaner distributions.
June 2025 monthly summary focused on delivering indexing enhancements, security-aware CI/CD improvements, and packaging optimizations across wazuh-indexer-plugins, wazuh-indexer, and wazuh. The month saw concrete progress in data fidelity, build reliability, and operational security, with business value realized through clearer security analytics, faster and safer release cycles, and leaner distributions.
May 2025 monthly summary focusing on delivering stability, cross-version compatibility, and streamlined release readiness for 5.x across wazuh-indexer-plugins and wazuh-indexer. Key work includes OpenSearch upgrades, CI/CD and packaging enhancements, and documentation cleanup.
May 2025 monthly summary focusing on delivering stability, cross-version compatibility, and streamlined release readiness for 5.x across wazuh-indexer-plugins and wazuh-indexer. Key work includes OpenSearch upgrades, CI/CD and packaging enhancements, and documentation cleanup.
April 2025 Performance Summary for wazuh-indexer and wazuh-indexer-plugins focused on delivering measurable business value through targeted features, robust reliability improvements, and CI/CD optimizations. Key features delivered include CTI content indexing with batch processing of large CTI snapshots, CVE filtering, and test reliability improvements (ensuring index refresh after updates and updated changelog); a new RBAC refresh command with accompanying docs, OpenAPI updates, new parsing/handling classes, and unit tests; and a CI optimization via a composite action that detects modified plugins and triggers builds/tests only for affected plugins. In wazuh-indexer, automated cross-distribution package deployment smoke tests and CI enhancements were added to validate installations/updates across RPM/DEB distributions and architectures, alongside environment provisioning and resource cleanup to improve reliability. Additionally, service upgrade resilience was improved by preserving the Wazuh Indexer service status across upgrades with a state file and restart logic.
April 2025 Performance Summary for wazuh-indexer and wazuh-indexer-plugins focused on delivering measurable business value through targeted features, robust reliability improvements, and CI/CD optimizations. Key features delivered include CTI content indexing with batch processing of large CTI snapshots, CVE filtering, and test reliability improvements (ensuring index refresh after updates and updated changelog); a new RBAC refresh command with accompanying docs, OpenAPI updates, new parsing/handling classes, and unit tests; and a CI optimization via a composite action that detects modified plugins and triggers builds/tests only for affected plugins. In wazuh-indexer, automated cross-distribution package deployment smoke tests and CI enhancements were added to validate installations/updates across RPM/DEB distributions and architectures, alongside environment provisioning and resource cleanup to improve reliability. Additionally, service upgrade resilience was improved by preserving the Wazuh Indexer service status across upgrades with a state file and restart logic.
March 2025 – wazuh/wazuh-indexer-plugins: Focused on CI/CD reliability, dependency modernization, and CTI capabilities, with OpenSearch/integration upgrades to improve stability and performance. No high-severity bugs reported; maintenance and governance tasks reduced risk and accelerated releases.
March 2025 – wazuh/wazuh-indexer-plugins: Focused on CI/CD reliability, dependency modernization, and CTI capabilities, with OpenSearch/integration upgrades to improve stability and performance. No high-severity bugs reported; maintenance and governance tasks reduced risk and accelerated releases.
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