GENEVA AND AUSTIN — October 24, 2024 — Sonar, the leading provider of code quality and security solutions, today announced Nathan Jones has joined as VP of Federal Government Sales. Nathan will be responsible for leading the strategy and execution of Sonar’s federal government business and will lead the expansion of Sonar’s Federal team in the D.C. area. Sonar helps prevent code quality and security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows.
Already used and trusted by leading federal agencies including NASA, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Justice, and more, Sonar’s self-managed solution SonarQube Server is enabling organizations and government agencies to improve software reliability, protect from cyber threats, and retire technical debt. It also helps to meet the mandatory requirements and Department of Defense (DoD) standards for software maintainability, such as FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards), STIG (Security Technical Implementation Guides), as well as other security and compliance reporting like OWASP (Open Worldwide Application Security Project) and PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). In addition, Sonar’s recently announced AI Code Assurance helps federal agencies verify the quality of their AI-generated code. The new capability thoroughly analyzes the codebase for issues, ensuring that projects using AI tools to generate code meet high standards of quality and security.
“We are thrilled to have Nathan join us, especially as software quality and security rise as increasingly critical areas for the federal government. We’re seeing government agencies start to actively manage technical debt and, as a result, look for better solutions to manage code analysis,” said Lynne Doherty, President of Field Operations at Sonar. “From his time at Red Hat — having helped it grow from a small innovator to an open source leader — and his expertise in government, Nathan has the rare combination of understanding developers and federal needs to help position Sonar as the partner for federal government and system integrators.”
Nathan has over 25 years of experience in the Federal market, with a deep understanding of software development from his two decades at Red Hat. His role at Sonar allows him to combine his software quality and open source experience at a critical inflection point for the US Federal market. Nathan is passionate about open source and the federal community evidenced by his leadership of AFCEA in Washington, DC, and as an original member of the Coalition for Enterprise Open Source Software in Government.
Nathan oversaw the federal sector for Red Hat for 10 years as VP of Federal; responsible for all federal business and systems integrator channels, leading a $600 million region and a team of over 100 people. In his time with Red Hat, he personally executed some of the company's largest single software transactions and directly contributed to it becoming the first open source software company with $1 billion in ARR. Prior to Red Hat, Nathan worked at Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP in 2006) and drove the adoption of software quality and performance testing solutions. Most recently, Nathan was the VP and GM of Worldwide Public Sector and Government Affairs at TaxBit, focused on supporting company growth and launching its public sector business.
“It’s an incredible time to join Sonar, as we have seen government agencies and system integrators alike recently turn their attention toward code quality and security as critical priorities. This is a unique opportunity to apply my experience and passions around open source, quality, and security. While there has been some forward progress to raise the bar on software testing and analysis over the past year, I am making it my mission to ensure we at Sonar enable Federal organizations and their development teams to accelerate those efforts,” said Nathan Jones, VP of Federal Government at Sonar.
Having analyzed more than half a trillion lines of code written in over 30 languages, across all industries and company sizes, Sonar has a deep understanding of how code is written and managed. This uniquely positions Sonar to help the federal sector address software concerns to ensure the early detection and mitigation of security vulnerabilities, compliance and trust, cost efficiency, and enhanced quality assurance. The SonarQube Server solution is available in the DoD Iron Bank and integrates with existing development practices and environments to give early, continuous feedback on whether the code meets the release standards set by government agencies.
For more information about Sonar for federal government agencies, please visit https://www.sonarsource.com/solutions/federal-government/.
About Sonar
Sonar's Clean Code solutions, SonarQube Server, SonarQube Cloud, and SonarQube for IDE, help developers prevent code quality and security issues from ever reaching production. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it—your internal team or genAI—resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable software. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s 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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