Founder Profile
Uri Boness
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Uri Boness?
Uri Boness is a founder of Elastic, which was founded in 2012 with Shay Banon, Steven Schuurman and Simon Willnauer.
- Company founded
- Elastic
- Founded
- 2012
- Co-founders
- Shay Banon, Steven Schuurman and Simon Willnauer
Background
Search technology expert.
Founding Story
Uri Boness co-founded Elastic after working extensively with Shay Banon on search technology. He played a critical role in engineering the early scalability of Elasticsearch, ensuring it could handle the massive data ingestion requirements of enterprise clients. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
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