Hendrik Saly
Founder at eliatra-opensearch-enterprise-distro
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolHendrik Saly is a founder and OpenSearch expert with 12 years of hands-on experience building and operating search infrastructure and cloud-native tooling. As co-founder of Eliatra and maintainer of the opensearch-k8s-operator, he blends deep open-source stewardship—Apache committer and creator of Search Guard—with product-focused entrepreneurship. He holds engineering and business degrees from German universities, combining technical rigor with commercial insight. Based in Karlsruhe, he champions managed OpenSearch distributions (MEOD) and contributes to the ecosystem’s reliability and security. An unapologetic metal head, he brings the same intensity and precision to large-scale search systems as he does to his music.
12 years of coding experience
Dipl.-Ing. (FH), Informationstechnologie, 1,2, Dipl.-Ing. (FH), Informationstechnologie, 1,2 at Fachhochschule Offenburg (University of Applied Science)Dipl.-Kfm. (FH), BWL, Dipl.-Kfm. (FH), BWL at Fachhochschule für Oekonomie & Management (FOM) Berlin
English, German
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Github Skills (200)
opensearch10
authentication10
elasticsearch10
operator10
commons10
acl10
ppl10
jsonp10
spnego10
active-directory10
logstash10
lucene10
search-engine10
filebeat10
java10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
salyh/elasticsearch-security-plugin
Oct 2013 - Dec 2017
Kerberos, LDAP, Active Directory, PKI/SSL/TLS and host/ip based ACL coarse-grained and document level security for elasticsearch (Authentication, Authorization, Auth, Spnego, ACL, Mutual authentication)
Contributions:76 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years 3 months
spnegotlsdirectoryelasticsearchcoarse-grained
codecentric/elasticsearch-shield-kerberos-realm
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 26 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
spnegokerberos-spnegorealmkerberosshield
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