Simon Brandhof

Current

Founder and Technical Lead at SonarSource

Past

Agile Software Development at Hortis
Animator of the session 'Ruby on Rails, Agile environment' at XP Days France 2007 at Hortis
Java software developer at Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie

Lead developer at CPR Online
Junior developer at OOsphere

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Education

Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)

Connections

82 connections

Industry

Computer Software

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Simon Brandhof’s Summary

Simon Brandhof’s Specialties:

Interested in everything that helps delivering good quality software : agile and open source minds, technology expertise (Java/Ruby on Rails) and ALM practices (Application Lifecycle Management).

Simon Brandhof’s Experience

Founder and Technical Lead

SonarSource

(Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

SonarSource is a startup company whose main objective is to develop Sonar (http://sonar.codehaus.org), an open source software quality management tool, dedicated to continuously analyze and measure source code quality.

I am a founder and director of the company along with Freddy Mallet and Oliver Gaudin.
Agile Software Development

Hortis

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2005 — November 2008 (3 years 10 months)

Member of the 'Consulting and Innovation' team, as Java senior developer.
Scrum Master and core developer of Sonar, an open source code analyser and dashboard.
Animator of the session 'Ruby on Rails, Agile environment' at XP Days France 2007

Hortis

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2007 — May 2007 (1 month)

XP Days is the yearly event organized by the eXtreme Programming France association, focused on agile methodologies. The 2007 event was sponsored by Hortis.

The Ruby on Rails session was animated with Stephane Tavera.
Java software developer

Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

February 2005 — February 2007 (2 years 1 month)

Consultant at Hortis GRC SA on J2EE platform (portlet/corba/EJB2/weblogic). I promote Agile methodologies to my team (tests, Test Driven Development, continuous integration, maven 1 & 2, ...).

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Lead developer

CPR Online

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)

January 2001 — February 2005 (4 years 2 months)

CPR Online develops the online trading platform of Credit Agricole Titres.

Lead developer of the core transactional system for orders routing and portfolio management, including :
- real-time portfolio valorization
- real-time risk engine (detection of unusual operations, cash/asset coverage)
- automatic order routing to US and french markets (FIX protocol)
- product referential (stocks, funds, ...)
- migration to Credit Agricole's back-office

First move to agile development (automatic build with custom continous integration, daily meetings).
Technical environment : Java/J2EE, Corba, JMS, Oracle 8i, ant.
Junior developer

OOsphere

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2000 — January 2001 (4 months)

Java trainer (5 days lessons) to Cross Systems (Geneva) and EPFL (Lausanne).
Techological Survey on J2EE, including IBM Websphere and BEA Weblogic application servers.