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.

There's a new standard for source code

A must-have for developers

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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2013
Commercial editions are offered under the SonarQube Server brand and new Editions are introduced based on customer feedback and the needs of larger enterprises.
2015
SonarSource decides to expand the scope of its languages and analyzers to cover well-known standards that encompass maintainability, reliability, and security.
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.
2018
The first SaaS platform, SonarQube Cloud, is launched based on market needs and user demands. The SaaS solution is totally free for Open Source projects, paid for private projects.
2019
A new dawn arises—SonarSource enters the SAST market and launches its Static Application Security Testing (SAST) capabilities and a new user experience.
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.
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.
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.

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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