# Ludovic Dehon

> Ludovic Dehon is creator of Kestra; CTO. Kestra on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Creator of Kestra; CTO.

Ludovic 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.

## What Ludovic builds

- [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.

## Works with

- [Emmanuel Darras](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/emmanuel-darras/), Co-founder and CEO, Kestra

## Backed by

- [RTP Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/rtp-global/)
- [Alven](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alven/)
- [ISAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/isai/)
- [Axeleo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/axeleo/)

## Questions

### Who is Ludovic Dehon?

Ludovic 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.

### What does Kestra Technologies make?

Anchor 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.

### Who has invested in Kestra Technologies?

The sources our research read name RTP Global, Alven, ISAI and Axeleo.

### How are Ludovic's tools graded?

Kestra is graded B, 63.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://kestra.io/
- https://kestra.io/contact-us
- https://kestra.io/about-us
- https://kestra.io/blogs/kestra-series-a
- https://kestra.io/blogs/the-story-behind-our-series-a
- https://kestra.io/blogs/2022-02-01-kestra-opensource

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