Bastien Guerry studied philosophy and cognitive science. He
  became involved in the Free Software movement in the 1990s and taught
  himself to code by contributing to GNU Emacs. In 2017, he joined the
  Public Interest Entrepreneurs programme at Etalab, the French open
  data agency, where he discovered the challenges public institutions
  face in using and publishing Free Libre and Open Source software. The
  following year, he launched the BlueHats movement, which brings
  together public-sector Free Software enthusiasts. Since 2021, he has
  been the Free Software Officer at the Interministerial Digital
  Directorate, leading its Open Source Programme Office (code.gouv.fr).
  In 2025, he joined the Software Heritage project to lead products and
  partnerships with industry and the public sector.