Founder Profile
Ofer Bengal
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Ofer Bengal held a profoundly rigorous, highly analytical background in advanced aerospace engineering, complex corporate strategy, and massive-scale technology incubation. Having successfully served as a fighter aircraft engineer in the Israeli Air Force before building multiple successful tech startups, this incredibly intense foundation in mass-market capital logistics provided the exact commercial mastery required to successfully architect the massive Redis enterprise.
Founding Story
Ofer Bengal is a highly astute Israeli technology entrepreneur, fiercely visionary corporate executive, and the profoundly influential CEO and commercial co-founder fundamentally responsible for corporatizing the massively successful Redis open-source project into a multi-billion dollar enterprise software empire. Operating as an incredibly experienced serial founder, Bengal aggressively recognized the massive, highly lucrative commercial potential of providing enterprise-grade clustering and high availability to Salvatore Sanfilippo's incredibly popular database. In 2011, he relentlessly partnered with Yiftach Shoolman to completely launch Redis Labs (now Redis). By fiercely engineering massive managed cloud services and aggressively securing highly critical enterprise contracts, his absolutely rigorous strategic leadership completely guaranteed the foundational commercial dominance of the massively scaling company.