Kevin De Porre
Founding Engineer at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin De Porre is a founding engineer with a decade of experience building resilient backend systems, currently co-running ElectricSQL — a real-time Postgres sync engine — while holding research positions at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He specializes in sync and replication infrastructure, having implemented versioned snapshots, log-offset abstractions, primary key support, and schema-aware HTTP responses for Electric's core sync service. With a PhD in Computer Science, Kevin blends rigorous academic research with hands-on product engineering and freelances for clients through Klix BV. Based in Brussels, he brings deep expertise in Postgres-driven realtime architectures and a habit of turning nuanced research insights into practical, production-ready features.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dutch, French, English
Github Skills (14)
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data-sync10
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replication10
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elixir10
synchronization10
crdt9
database9
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database-administration9
databases9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
electric-sql/electric
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
Real-time sync for Postgres.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:557 reviews, 359 PRs, 1243 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on implementing and improving the sync service for the electric-sql/electric repository, a real-time sync system for Postgres. Their contributions include adding versioned snapshots to the sync service to track shape versions, ensuring live mode returns all changes, and introducing an abstraction for log offsets. The user also added support for primary keys and the inclusion of schema information in HTTP responses.
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kevin-dp/crdt-website
Nov 2020 - May 2023
Source of the crdt.tech website
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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