AUSTIN and GENEVA โ December 11 โ Earlier this year, leading business technologist Darryl West joined Sonar as a Senior Advisor to provide strategic guidance to CEO Tariq Shaukat and the companyโs Product and Go-To-Market (GTM) teams. Mr. West has driven transformational business change through the adoption and evolution of new technologies and his approach to innovation, with more than 35 years of experience leading global financial institutions. Previously, he was the CIO at HSBC, Barclays, and Lloyds Banking Group. Prior to Mr. Westโs CIO position, he held other leadership roles at JP Morgan Chase and National Australia Group Europe.ย
In his efforts with Sonar, Mr. West will help to further the companyโs mission to increase the value of software as a business asset through improved code quality and security. Sonarโs focus on the developer experience helps organizations continuously reduce the exposure and risk that results from poorly written code and improve the performance of their software. As organizations increasingly adopt AI assistants to write code and develop software, having scalable, flexible solutions that seamlessly integrate into the CI/CD lifecycle has become a business imperative.ย
In addition to his work with Sonar, Mr. West advises several other leading technology organizations and sits on multiple boards. Now residing in Hong Kong, Mr. West has lived and worked in Australia, France, Germany, the USA, and the UK.
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Sonar helps prevent code quality and security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes itโyour internal team or genAIโresulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable software. Rooted in the open source community, Sonarโs solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by 7M+ developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.
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