Founder Profile
Simon Willnauer
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Simon Willnauer?
Simon Willnauer is a founder of Elastic, which was founded in 2012 with Shay Banon, Steven Schuurman and Uri Boness.
- Company founded
- Elastic
- Founded
- 2012
- Co-founders
- Shay Banon, Steven Schuurman and Uri Boness
Background
Core contributor to Apache Lucene.
Founding Story
Simon Willnauer co-founded Elastic, bringing his massive technical expertise as a core developer of Apache Lucene (the underlying search library that Elasticsearch is built upon). He architected the complex technical integrations that made Elasticsearch the industry standard. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
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