Florent Georges

XML, MarkLogic and Data expert

✔ XML

✔ Semantic

✔ NoSQL and data

✔ Web Services and SOA

✔ Business Processes

Since Florent discovered IT back in the 90's, he has always been fascinated by how data are stored and represented. He naturally came to XML, and contributed many open-source and community-driven projects in the field of XML.

In the same spirit, he was always interested in how systems interoperate and exchange data, and discovered Web services, and later SOA, during the 2000's.

Florent had the intuition that Web services and SOA are good interoperability tools, but segregate data across different systems, preventing one to query and investigate the entire enterprise data set as a whole. During the 2010's, he was then pleased to be part of the NoSQL movement, enabling central data hubs in the enterprise, and provided ground for data technologies and data science.

Florent is an invited expert in the XSLT & XQuery working groups at W3C since 2009, where he works on the new versions of XSLT, XQuery and XPath (3.0 & 3.1), and also helped in the XProc working group. Florent is the founder of EXPath, and the chair of the EXPath community group at W3C, a collaborative project defining standard extensions for XPath-based languages. Florent is the maintainer of XSpec, the framework for writing and executing unit tests for XSLT and XQuery. He is a member of the XML Guild, a consortium of some of the best independent XML consultants in the world.

Florent collaborated to several books. He is a certified SOA Architect (by SOA School), and has given multiple talks in several conferences. He has been working two years for MarkLogic, the "Enterprise NoSQL Database", helping many of their clients with their data projects and challenges.