Fred Simon
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist
JFrog
Fred Simon, co-founder and chief data scientist at JFrog, is one of the most respected software architects in the developer community, with over 25 years of open source and Java experience. Before founding JFrog in 2008, Fred founded Java consulting firm AlphaCSP in 1998 and served as the company’s global CTO, leading five branches worldwide and acting as the visionary voice of the company. Fred’s development experience goes back to 1992 and covers Java technologies' evolution from day one as a programmer, architect and consultant. As one of JFrog's leaders, Fred encourages strong collaboration with leading open source projects such as SpringSource, Grails and Gradle by providing them with the Artifactory Cloud platform. In addition, JFrog fuels the CI ecosystem with open source plugins for leading tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity and Bamboo.

When not helping JFrog customers, advancing the company’s product line or innovation program, Fred hacks around new features for the core Java language, Java port of the popular sky rendering Stellarium project and other captivating things. Fred holds a Masters in Computer Science from Ecole Central de Lille.
Fred Simon