Simon Brandhof
Private Investor
France
Summary
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RockstarSimon Brandhof is a seasoned software founder and engineer with 17 years of experience, best known as a Co-Founder and long-time technical lead at SonarSource where he helped scale an open-source code-quality platform from a tiny team to ~190 people. He combines deep backend expertise in static analysis and Java/JavaScript tooling—evidenced by contributions to SonarQube, SonarJava and SonarJS and the SpotBugs Sonar plugin—with a pragmatic focus on code cleanliness, maintainability and architectural refactors. Now active as a private investor and sustainability advocate in France, he backs startups tackling mobility, circular materials, wildfire detection and local food distribution. Comfortable switching between hands-on implementation and strategic product/organizational challenges, he brings an engineer’s eye for detail to governance and board roles. Less obvious: his work often centers on improving developer experience and CI-era integrations, not just feature delivery, reflecting a long-term view on engineering quality.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
French, English
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sonarqube
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maven-plugin
top-5%
java
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maven
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Github Skills (35)
static-code-analysis10
javascript10
static-analysis10
spotbugs10
sonarqube10
apidoc10
testing10
findbugs10
software-quality10
java10
javas10
code-analysis10
api10
static-analyzer10
webservice9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
SonarSource/sonarqube
Sep 2010 - Sep 2020
Continuous Inspection
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3628 commits, 915 PRs, 3150 pushes in 10 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Simon's commits primarily focused on refactoring and improving existing functionalities within the SonarQube codebase. The code changes involve the implementation of several functionalities, including the refinement of issue rendering logic and enhancements in Java web services. The user also added new functions, such as the ability to add and delete comments and integrated new features like the integration of external web services in issue's detail page.
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SonarSource/SonarJS
May 2011 - Feb 2014
SonarSource Static Analyzer for JavaScript and TypeScript
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Simon contributed to the SonarSource JavaScript static analyzer project by implementing and refining core components. Their work included enhancing the `JavaScriptCommonRulesEngine`, refactoring the `JavaScriptSquidSensor`, and fixing initialization issues related to batch extensions. They also improved comments within the codebase and integrated necessary dependencies for common rules, demonstrating an understanding of the project's architecture and static analysis principles.
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