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  "markdown": "Founder and CTO.\n\nShay 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.\n\n- X: https://x.com/kimchy\n\n## What Shay 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. Founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Shay Banon?\n\nShay 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.\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 Shay'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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