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  "markdown": "CEO.\n\nAshutosh (Ash) Kulkarni is CEO of Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch. He joined Elastic as chief product officer in 2021, after senior product leadership and management roles at McAfee, Akamai, Informatica and Sun Microsystems.\n\n## What Ashutosh builds\n\n- [Elasticsearch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elasticsearch.md), graded B, 67.8/100, in Retrieval \u0026 vector search. Elasticsearch is Elastic's search engine and vector database, with keyword, vector and hybrid search over a REST API. Agents reach it through that API or the Agent Builder MCP server on Elastic Cloud and Elastic Stack 9.2 or later. CEO, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Shay Banon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shay-banon/), Founder and CTO\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Ashutosh Kulkarni?\n\nAshutosh (Ash) Kulkarni is CEO of Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch. He joined Elastic as chief product officer in 2021, after senior product leadership and management roles at McAfee, Akamai, Informatica and Sun Microsystems.\n\n### What does Elastic make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Elasticsearch from Elastic. Elasticsearch is Elastic's search engine and vector database, with keyword, vector and hybrid search over a REST API. Agents reach it through that API or the Agent Builder MCP server on Elastic Cloud and Elastic Stack 9.2 or later.\n\n### How are Ashutosh's tools graded?\n\nElasticsearch is graded B, 67.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.elastic.co/about/leadership\n- https://x.com/kimchy\n- https://www.elastic.co/\n- https://www.elastic.co/support\n- https://www.elastic.co/support/welcome\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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