Florent Zara
Senior Manager, Professional Services at Eclipse Foundation
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, France
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Top SchoolFlorent Zara is a seasoned open source and innersource leader with 13 years of professional experience and a two-decade technical career spanning roles from software QA and development to CTO-level strategy. Based in Brussels, he currently leads Professional Services at the Eclipse Foundation after directing its Open Source Services team and ecosystem efforts, bringing deep expertise in setting up OSPOs, contributor guides, and governance for organizations like Capital Fund Management. Known for bootstrapping and scaling innersource initiatives (notably at ENGIE Digital) he blends hands-on software quality and application security experience with ecosystem-building and professional services delivery. He has a strong academic foundation in production engineering and a track record of moving companies from advisory to operational open source practice. Less obvious: his background includes early-career hands-on C/C++ development and QA roles that give him practical empathy for engineering teams while shaping high-level open source strategy.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, Mathematics, Baccalauréat, Mathematics at Lycée Louis le GrandB.Eng, Production, B.Eng, Production at Université du Québec - Ecole de Technologie supérieureMaster, Production, Master, Production at EPF Engineering School
English, French
Github Skills (200)
semantic-web10
http-client10
lwm2m10
theia10
gradle-plugin10
client-library10
xtext10
api10
event-loop10
httpd10
groovy10
http-server10
ceylon10
eclipse-collections10
netty10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse/org.eclipse.riena.plugins.archive
May 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
eclipse/org.eclipse.riena.toolbox
May 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 6 years 6 months
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