Founder Profile
Yiftach Shoolman
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Yiftach Shoolman possessed an incredibly rigorous, deeply technical background in advanced telecommunications engineering, complex cloud infrastructure, and massive-scale distributed systems. Operating as a fiercely capable technical leader who had previously founded and scaled massive content delivery networks, this intensely technical foundation provided the exact engineering leverage required to successfully co-found the incredibly massive Redis Labs architecture.
Founding Story
Yiftach Shoolman is an absolutely brilliant software engineer, fiercely skilled digital architect, and the profoundly influential CTO and technical co-founder fundamentally responsible for programming the incredibly complex enterprise-grade clustering bedrock of the massive Redis corporate platform. Operating as a highly talented technical executive alongside Ofer Bengal, Shoolman aggressively spearheaded the incredibly complex backend engineering required to seamlessly transform a single-node open-source tool into a massive, highly distributed, fault-tolerant cloud database. By relentlessly building highly scalable, incredibly secure architectures that could instantly process millions of high-stakes transactions with sub-millisecond latency, his absolutely rigorous technical execution completely ensured the platform's absolute survival in the brutal enterprise software market. His massive engineering legacy permanently secured his status as a core titan of cloud infrastructure.