Founder Profile
Shay Banon
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Shay Banon?
Shay Banon is a founder of Elastic, which was founded in 2012 with Steven Schuurman, Uri Boness and Simon Willnauer.
- Company founded
- Elastic
- Founded
- 2012
- Co-founders
- Steven Schuurman, Uri Boness and Simon Willnauer
Background
Software engineer and open-source developer.
Founding Story
Shay Banon created the absolute core of the company in 2010 when he wrote Elasticsearch. He originally just wanted to build a simple recipe search engine for his wife, but accidentally created a massively scalable, open-source search and analytics engine that became a foundational tool for the entire tech industry. Shay Banon was born in 1978.
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