About Us

learn about Sonar's values, history and leadership

Sonar solves the trillion-dollar challenge of bad code. Sonar equips developers and organizations to systematically achieve a state of Clean Code so that all code is fit for development and production. By applying Sonar’s Clean as You Code methodology, organizations minimize risk, reduce technical debt, and derive more value from their software in a predictable and sustainable way.

open core values

leading with transparency and innovation

The leader in clean code, Sonar is committed to its core value of transparency and continuous improvement to support our community and make tomorrow's innovations possible.

continuous innovation

Our R&D teams continuously innovate to make it easier for all developers to deliver clean code.

continuous feedback

Community inputs help us build new features that are impactful and valuable to our users.

continuous enhancements

We strive to continuously improve and enhance our existing features to provide more value to our customers.

A must-have for developers

there's a new standard for source code.

7M+

developers use Sonar

400k+

organizations using Open Source edition

18k+

community members

Our culture

smarter together

You'll hear a lot about our rich culture and values. We strongly believe that it's the people—our employees and community—who have led us through to success. Check out our many open roles and grow with Sonar.

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commitment to open source

open source DNA

Anchored on our open core principle, we carry a commitment to transparency, security, and continuous improvement of our Open Source solution.

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back to the future

Our journey started with a small vision to democratize access to code quality and has transformed into a mission to provide world-class solutions to empower every developer to write better code.

  1. A lightbulb representing an idea being formed is shown

    2006

    Freddy Mallet realizes that code quality management is critical and sees the need for a product that provides automated code reviews in an effective and integrated manner.

  2. SonarQube

    2007

    Simon Brandhof starts developing the Sonar platform by integrating the best open source tools for Java. Enthused by the vision, Olivier Gaudin joins the team in Sept 2007.

  3. SonarSource

    2008

    The three combine their passion to accelerate the development of the Open Source Sonar platform. SonarSource is born in Nov 2008 with an initial effort to make the platform enterprise-ready.

  4. Logo for Open World Forum is shown on a navy background

    2009

    Built on the Open Sonar platform, SonarSource starts to develop its commercial offering with its first commercial plugin 'Views' for project portfolio management and gets recognized at Open World Forum.

  5. Image shows data being sent to and being received from the cloud

    2010

    Sonar platform is accepted by the community and enterprise with over 2K downloads per month. The company grows and accelerates its pace of R&D with more released plugins.

  6. The final piece of a puzzle is added in

    2013

    Commercial editions are offered under the SonarQube brand and new Editions are introduced based on customer feedback and the needs of larger enterprises.

  7. Image shows icons representing Reliability, Maintainability and Security

    2015

    SonarSource decides to expand the scope of its languages and analyzers to cover well-known standards that encompass maintainability, reliability, and security.

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    2016

    SonarSource raises $45M USD investment from Insight Venture Partners to further accelerate growth. Richard Wells, MD, and Matt Gatto, VP at Insight Partners join the company's Board of Directors.

  9. SonarCloud

    2018

    The first SaaS platform, SonarCloud, is launched based on market needs and user demands. The SaaS solution is totally free for Open Source projects, paid for private projects.

  10. Icon of a shield representing security

    2019

    A new dawn arises—SonarSource enters the SAST market and launches its Static Application Security Testing (SAST) capabilities and a new user experience.

  11. SonarSource Acquires RipsTech

    2020

    RIPS Technologies, a German startup known for its security analyzers, becomes part of the SonarSource family. Teams join forces to disrupt the Code Security market with developer-first SAST products.

  12. a stack of coins

    2022

    Sonar raises $412 million from new and existing investors, at a valuation of $4.7 billion. The company will use the investment to grow its go-to-market team globally as the company drives toward $1 billion in revenue.

  13. Logos of Sonar users are displayed. The group includes NASA, Alphabet, Accenture, Dyson, Air France, Scotia Bank, Deutsche Bank, Microsoft, IBM, Volkswagen, Apache and VM Ware

    Today

    Today, Sonar's industry-leading solution is trusted by more than 400,000 organizations and 21,000 enterprise customers globally and is considered integral to delivering better software.

Leadership

great products come from great teams.

At Sonar we have as much energy for fun as we do for working hard. We are a company with amazing people passionate about providing solutions that help build better software.

Olivier Gaudin, CEO

Olivier Gaudin

Founder & Co-CEO

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Tariq Shaukat

Co-CEO

Andrea Malagodi, CTO

Andrea Malagodi

CIO

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Celine Siow

VP of WW Channels and APAC Sales

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Clarissa O'Connell

CHRO

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Christophe Gaget

VP of Business Operations

Derek Smith General Counsel

Derek Smith

General Counsel

Fabrice Bellingard, VP Of Products

Fabrice Bellingard

VP of Products

Gordon Pothier, CFO

Gordon Pothier

CFO

Johannes Dahse, Head Of R&D

Johannes Dahse

Head of R&D

Nicolas Peru, Head of Product Delivery

Nicolas Peru

Head Of Product Delivery

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Pascal Fleurence

Head of Support

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Patrick McKinney

GM & VP of Sales, Americas

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Rachel Adam

VP of Brand & Comms

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Rick Harshman

GM & VP of Sales, EMEA & APJ

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Tabitha Pickett

Head of Sales Admin

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