Ludovic Dehon is a CTO and serial founder with 12+ years building cloud-native, data-heavy systems and open-source tooling from Lille, France. He co-founded Kestra, an infinitely scalable orchestration platform, and AKHQ, a leading open-source Kafka GUI with 2,200+ stars and millions of pulls, demonstrating product-market fit for developer-facing infrastructure. Equally comfortable in backend, frontend and operations, he has hands-on experience across Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, Docker and Kubernetes and prefers the right technology for the right use case. As a full-stack contributor to Kestra and ElasticsearchDSL, he blends UI improvements with deep query and aggregation work, showing both system-level thinking and attention to UX. He has led technical teams at Leroy Merlin and Ankama and continues to iterate rapidly from prototype to production. A lifelong learner, he thrives on new challenges that force renewal of complex information systems.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
DUT, Mesures Physiques, DUT, Mesures Physiques at I.U.T. 'A' de Lille
Conception Réalisation Multimedia, Conception Réalisation Multimedia at Efficom Nord
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Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:1 release, 198 reviews, 1154 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ludovic contributed to the Kestra workflow automation platform by implementing UI enhancements, including adding links to flow and executions on the logs list. They also fixed bugs in the UI and Docker-related tasks. The commits indicate the user's involvement in both frontend and backend aspects of the platform, with code changes across multiple parts of the system.
Contributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 15 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Ludovic primarily contributed to the `elasticsearchdsl` library by implementing and modifying features related to aggregation, inner hits and cardinality aggregation. They added functionality for chaining aggregations, made the inner hit query optional, and introduced a new implementation of inner hits. The commits demonstrate a focus on extending the query DSL capabilities within the context of the Elasticsearch environment and improving its functionality.
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