Founder of a listed tool

Shay Banon

Founder and CTO, named behind the Elasticsearch listing on Anchor Terminal.

Founder and CTO

Shay Banon is founder and CTO of Elastic. He wrote the first lines of code of Elasticsearch in 2009 and founded Elastic in 2012. His work on search began in 2004, when he tried to build a recipe app.

What Shay builds

Elasticsearch B · 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.
Founder and CTO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it

Questions

Who is Shay Banon?

Shay Banon is founder and CTO of Elastic. He wrote the first lines of code of Elasticsearch in 2009 and founded Elastic in 2012. His work on search began in 2004, when he tried to build a recipe app.

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 Shay'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.

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