Pierre Ernst

Pierre Ernst is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in application security and engineering, currently serving as a Staff Engineer for M&A security at Stripe since August 2021. Prior roles include Principal Engineer at Elastic, focusing on application security for Elastic Cloud, and Lead Application Security Engineer at Salesforce, where involvement included offensive security for the Due Diligence team. Additional experience encompasses senior security roles at VMware and IBM, contributing to application penetration testing, security code reviews, and incident response across multiple teams globally. Pierre Ernst has received recognition in the form of the "Outstanding Technical Achievement Award" in 2011 for contributions to Cross Brand Technical Diligence, and possesses educational qualifications in computer science from INSA Lyon and a certificate in Enterprise Java Development from Algonquin College.