Shay Banon
Chief Technology Officer at Elastic
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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RockstarShay Banon is the Chief Technology Officer at Elastic with two decades of experience leading engineering and product strategy for search and observability platforms. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has been a driving force at Elastic since 2012, shaping the company’s open-source-first approach to searchable, scalable data infrastructure. Known for inventing Elasticsearch, Shay blends deep systems engineering expertise with product vision to simplify complex data problems for developers and enterprises. He balances hands-on technical leadership with ecosystem-building, having fostered a large global community around Elastic’s stack. Less obvious: his career reflects a rare combination of creator mindset and operator discipline—building foundational distributed systems while scaling them into reliable commercial services.
20 years of coding experience
Github Skills (54)
search-engine10
opensearch10
observability10
kibana10
java10
restful10
elasticsearch-client10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
transport9
wikipedia9
cloudant9
logstash9
rabbitmq9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dadoonet/elasticsearch.github.com
Feb 2010 - Mar 2013
Contributions:847 commits in 3 years 2 months
kimchy/compass
Feb 2006 - Sep 2011
Contributions:2085 commits in 5 years 8 months
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