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 (42)
search-engine10
observability10
kibana10
java10
restful10
rest10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
twitter9
logstash9
rabbitmq9
api-documentation8
memcached8
heartbeat8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch-servicewrapper
Jun 2010 - Mar 2015
A service wrapper on top of elasticsearch
Contributions:16 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 4 years 9 months
elasticsearch
kimchy/elasticsearch
Aug 2014 - Jul 2015
Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:19 commits, 137 pushes, 92 branches in 11 months
restrestfulsearch-engine
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