Founder Profile
Salvatore Sanfilippo
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Salvatore Sanfilippo?
Salvatore Sanfilippo is a founder of Redis, Inc., which was founded in 2011 with Ofer Bengal and Yiftach Shoolman.
- Company founded
- Redis, Inc.
- Founded
- 2011
- Co-founders
- Ofer Bengal and Yiftach Shoolman
Background
Italian open-source developer.
Founding Story
Salvatore Sanfilippo (known online as 'antirez') created Redis in 2009. Frustrated by the terrible performance of MySQL for real-time web analytics, he wrote the absolute first version of Redis in Tcl (and later C) to act as a lightning-fast, in-memory data store. He maintained the open-source project almost single-handedly for over a decade, refusing corporate pressure before stepping down in 2020. Salvatore Sanfilippo was born in 1977.
Sources
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- Redis passes $300M in annualized recurring revenue (GlobeNewswire, Jan 2026) (Redis, Inc.)
- Rowan Trollope - Redis leadership (Redis, Inc.)