Florent Huck

IT Consulting • Developer Advocate • Senior Lead Developer & PHP/Symfony Architect • Trainer

Lyon, France — Remote / Hybrid (EU/US-friendly) · florent.huck@gmail.com · LinkedIn · GitHub · Upsun Developer

Available from October 2026

Profile

Senior lead developer, Developer Advocate and hands-on PHP and Symfony architect with a strong background in open-source CMS ecosystems (eZ Publish / eZ Platform). Experienced in consulting, audits, migrations, training, and enabling teams through tooling and automation. Uses AI tools on a daily basis across development, code review and content production. Combines senior technical depth with strong public-facing communication skills built over 60+ training sessions and numerous conference talks.

Core skills

Architecture & delivery: Solution architecture, technical design documentation, target system diagrams, project organization, development practices, DevOps support, implementation of complex/critical components, technical leadership (senior lead dev, mentoring, coaching).
Consulting & enablement: Open-source CMS strategy consulting, audits, recommendations, functional & technical analysis, specifications, RFP support, acceptance testing, incident & bug tracking, training delivery & content creation (60+ sessions).
Technologies: PHP, Symfony, TypeScript, Node.js, eZ Publish / eZ Platform, DevOps, daily use of AI-assisted development tools (LLM-based coding assistants).
Communication & advocacy: Developer Advocacy, technical writing, public speaking, training design & delivery, open source.

Experience

Founder & Developer (personal project) — Self-employed — e-invoicing & tax-compliance app

Mar 2026 – present

Building a SaaS application for French micro-entrepreneurs to manage electronic invoicing (facture électronique) compliance.
Integrated a certified e-invoicing platform (PDP — Super PDP API) for regulatory-compliant invoice transmission (EN 16931/UBL).
Automated generation of annual tax certificates for home-service activities (service à la personne) to support clients' tax-credit declarations.
Solo full-stack development: architecture, backend, frontend and deployment.

Advocacy Engineer — Platform.sh / Upsun

Jul 2022 – present

Conference speaker and developer-facing advocate: talks, demos, technical content, and community engagement. Builds and ships internal tooling that measurably improves daily workflows across teams.

Designed and shipped a GitHub-based technical blog publishing calendar (TypeScript) with drag-and-drop PR planning.
Automated Upsun's image-version inventory with automatic documentation updates.
Built and published two open-source SDKs for Upsun (PHP and Node.js/TypeScript) — packagist.org/packages/upsun/upsun-sdk-php.
Implemented llms.txt on Upsun Docs and devcenter.upsun.com to improve AI/LLM-aware documentation discovery (AX — Agent eXperience).
Published tutorials and technical articles on the Upsun blog; continuous documentation maintenance and accuracy.
Acted as the team's “demo machine”: reliable, hands-on live demonstrations at conferences and internal/external events.
Cross-team partner across engineering, docs, support, marketing, and product.

Entrepreneur, Consultant, PHP/Symfony/eZ Architect, Trainer — Code Rhapsodie

Apr 2017 – Dec 2020

Consulting and architecture (PHP, Symfony, eZ Publish / eZ Platform): project support, senior lead dev, code audits, training, DevOps, development.
Selected engagements: Pleinchamp, AlloCiné, FranceAgriMer, Onisep, CETIM, culture.gouv.fr, and more.

Entrepreneur, Independent Consultant & Trainer — HKonsulting

Jan 2016 – Dec 2022

eZ Publish / eZ Platform & Symfony consulting: project support, audits, training, development.
Clients: Pichet Immobilier, Onisep, DICOD (defense.gouv.fr), Atlantic, Denkwerk, and more.

Consultant (Professional Services), Trainer, Pre-sales — eZ Systems AS

May 2012 – Dec 2015

Pre-sales support and technical evangelism for eZ Publish.
Audits: code reviews, performance optimization, migrations, security.
Consulting: eZ Publish 5.x architecture and feature delivery.
Training: Basic, Advanced, Editors, Sys Admin, eZ Marketing Automation.

Senior Developer — Accenture (Client: France Telecom)

Oct 2010 – May 2012

Information system redesign to present products/offers to partners (approx. 14k users).
eZ Publish 4.5 customization; Agile delivery.
Content structure, editorial workflows, front/back-office customization.
Performance optimization (significant reduction of SQL queries).
User roles & permissions, QA and support; production launch (Nov 5, 2011).

Senior Developer — RRH Software

Dec 2008 – Jul 2010

Lead developer for a payroll slip generation module for accounting firms and their clients.
Functional/technical specifications; payroll generation engine; DUCS EDI generator.
QA & support; supervised an engineering intern (SUPINFO Lyon).

Junior Developer — Astek Rhône-Alpes (Client: ADP Micromegas)

Nov 2006 – Nov 2008

Built early versions of a tri-party payroll management application (PHP 5, Oracle 10g) for a European payroll outsourcing leader.

Junior Developer (Apprenticeship) — Acte2i

Jun 2005 – Sep 2006

Support and development of internal tools and partner-facing utilities.
Web maintenance/optimization; mission order management; internal communication tooling.
Intern supervision and IT vendor coordination.

Education

Master's degree (MIAGE — Méthode Informatiques Appliquées à la Gestion des Entreprises) — Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble (2005–2006 ; Apprenticeship; “Assez Bien” honors)
IUP MIAGE — Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble (2002–2005)
DEUG STPI, 1st year — Saint-Martin-d'Hères University Campus (2000–2002)
Baccalauréat S (Science track) (2000 ; “Assez Bien” honors)

Languages

French — native · English — fluent · Spanish — basic (school level)

Interests

Handball — 20 years of practice: strategic vision, reactivity, endurance, competitiveness, teamwork, fair play.

Skydiving — Experienced skydiver with numerous jumps and certifications.