Philippe Ombredanne is a passionate FOSS hacker on a mission to make it easier and safer to reuse FOSS code. He is the maintainer of ScanCode, the industry standard tool for software composition and license detection along with other open source tools for software composition analysis, license and security compliance (aboutcode.org). Philippe is the creator of Package URL, a de-facto standard to identify software packages across the supply chain adopted industry-wide which is the essential glue between SBOM and VEX standards and SCA tools. He contributes to several other projects including the Linux kernel SPDX-ification, CycloneDX, SPDX, ClearlyDefined, Google OSV, strace, several Python tools, and previously to JBoss, Eclipse and Mozilla. He is also a long-time Google Summer of Code mentor and org admin.
Work-wise, Philippe is the CTO and co-founder of nexB, helping software teams track what’s in their code with DejaCode, an open source governance and compliance dashboard.