Eric Fourrier
Co-Founder & CEO at GitGuardian
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolEric Fourrier is a founder-led security and data science leader with 11 years of experience building tools that help developers protect code and sensitive data. As Co-Founder and CEO of GitGuardian (after serving as CTO), he scaled a secrets-detection platform that monitors public GitHub and eliminates secret sprawl across private repositories, messaging systems and logs. Trained in applied mathematics and machine learning at CentraleSupélec and ENS, he blends deep technical rigor with product-led entrepreneurship, having also co-founded Quantiops to deliver data-driven solutions. Early roles in fraud and leak detection fostered a practical focus on production-ready ML and large-scale data pipelines. Based in Paris, he brings a practitioner’s instinct for instrumenting developer workflows into secure, automated systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Machine Learning, Master's degree Machine Learning at Ecole normale supérieureMaster's degree Applied Mathematics, Master's degree Applied Mathematics at CentraleSupélecLycée Henri IVCollège-Lycée Henri IV
French, English, German
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Github Skills (34)
apikey10
scrape10
security10
api10
secrets-detection10
credentials10
scanning10
devsecops9
linkedin9
database9
cli8
pre-commit-hook8
precommit8
preprocessing7
javascript7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ericfourrier/Mining-the-Social-Web-2nd-Edition
Jul 2021 - Jan 2026
The official online compendium for Mining the Social Web, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2013)
Contributions:31 PRs, 40 pushes, 42 branches in 4 years 6 months
miningcompendiumo-reillysocial-web
ericfourrier/ansible-elasticsearch
Apr 2023 - Jul 2025
Ansible playbook for Elasticsearch
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 4 months
ansiblefilebeatansible-playbookplaybookelasticsearch
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