# Ashutosh Kulkarni

> Ashutosh Kulkarni is CEO. Elasticsearch on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

CEO.

Ashutosh (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.

## What Ashutosh builds

- [Elasticsearch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elasticsearch.md), graded B, 67.8/100, in Retrieval & 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.

## Works with

- [Shay Banon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shay-banon/), Founder and CTO

## Questions

### Who is Ashutosh Kulkarni?

Ashutosh (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.

### What does Elastic make?

Anchor 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.

### How are Ashutosh's tools graded?

Elasticsearch is graded B, 67.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.elastic.co/about/leadership
- https://x.com/kimchy
- https://www.elastic.co/
- https://www.elastic.co/support
- https://www.elastic.co/support/welcome

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