Kévin Dunglas
Founder CEO at Les-Tilleuls.coop
Lille, Hauts-de-France
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Top SchoolKévin Dunglas is a seasoned founder and software architect with 17 years of experience building scalable web and realtime systems from France. As CEO of Les-Tilleuls.coop and founder of Dunglas Services he created API Platform, Mercure.rocks, Vulcain.rocks and FrankenPHP, blending deep protocol and server innovation with commercial deployments for clients like Decathlon, Alstom and Ubisoft. A long-time Symfony core contributor and polyglot engineer (PHP, Go, C, TypeScript, Python), he moves fluidly between low-level server work—contributions to Caddy and Go’s net/http—and high-level APIs including REST, GraphQL and hypermedia. He combines hands-on product creation with teaching and writing, having lectured at University of Lille and spoken at international conferences. Active across 100+ open-source projects, his work is notable for practical performance and security improvements (e.g., Symfony, Doctrine, Caddy) as well as tooling that simplifies real-time and API-first architectures.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master 1 Computer Science, Master 1 Computer Science at University of Lille 1 Sciences and TechnologyHigh School Science, High School Science at Lycée Louis Blaringhem
French, English, langues germaniques
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Github Skills (143)
env10
apim10
hugo10
api-platform10
reverse-proxy10
testing10
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authentication10
reflection-api10
phpunit10
caddy10
ruby10
security10
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Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
dunglas/mercure
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
🪽 An open, easy, fast, reliable and battery-efficient solution for real-time communications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 123 reviews, 578 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kévin contributed to the back-end functionality of the Mercure hub, focusing on HTTP request handling and event dispatching. They implemented support for the `mercure` event type and used it in templates. Furthermore, the user added authorization support and the subscription web API to control access to content updates based on the subscription.
realtimehypermediapushbatterymercure
dunglas/frankenphp
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
🧟 The modern PHP app server
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 390 reviews, 78 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Kévin's commits primarily focus on developing the FrankenPHP application server. Their contributions include implementing a Caddy module and integrating PHP functionality within the Caddy server. They also worked on the internal mechanics of the PHP engine, including handling request and response data. A significant amount of time was spent on the worker mode, specifically memory management and thread safety.
php-appsapiserver-appphpmodern-php
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