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  "markdown": "Creator of Kestra; CTO.\n\nLudovic Dehon is CTO of Kestra and made the project's first commit in 2019. He was then a consultant at Leroy Merlin building a new cloud data platform, and spent months trying to make Airflow meet the retailer's security and scale needs before writing his own orchestrator.\n\n## What Ludovic builds\n\n- [Kestra](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kestra.md), graded B, 63.8/100, in Workflow automation. Kestra is an open-source workflow orchestrator from Kestra Technologies. Flows are written in YAML and run on a server the owner hosts, with a REST API, SDKs in four languages and flows exposed as MCP tools. Creator of Kestra; CTO, founder, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Emmanuel Darras](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/emmanuel-darras/), Co-founder and CEO, Kestra\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [RTP Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/rtp-global/)\n- [Alven](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alven/)\n- [ISAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/isai/)\n- [Axeleo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/axeleo/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Ludovic Dehon?\n\nLudovic Dehon is CTO of Kestra and made the project's first commit in 2019. He was then a consultant at Leroy Merlin building a new cloud data platform, and spent months trying to make Airflow meet the retailer's security and scale needs before writing his own orchestrator.\n\n### What does Kestra Technologies make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Kestra from Kestra Technologies. Kestra is an open-source workflow orchestrator from Kestra Technologies. Flows are written in YAML and run on a server the owner hosts, with a REST API, SDKs in four languages and flows exposed as MCP tools.\n\n### Who has invested in Kestra Technologies?\n\nThe sources our research read name RTP Global, Alven, ISAI and Axeleo.\n\n### How are Ludovic's tools graded?\n\nKestra is graded B, 63.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://kestra.io/\n- https://kestra.io/contact-us\n- https://kestra.io/about-us\n- https://kestra.io/blogs/kestra-series-a\n- https://kestra.io/blogs/the-story-behind-our-series-a\n- https://kestra.io/blogs/2022-02-01-kestra-opensource\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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