# Shay Banon (slim)

> Shay Banon is founder and CTO. Elasticsearch on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Founder and CTO.

Shay Banon is founder and CTO of Elastic.

- X: https://x.com/kimchy

## What Shay 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. Founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-27.

## Questions

### Who is Shay Banon?

Shay Banon is founder and CTO of Elastic.

### What does Elastic make?

Anchor Terminal lists Elasticsearch from Elastic.

### 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.

## 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

These 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.