Shay Banon
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Shay Banon is CTO and co-founder at Elastic. Elastic’s author page identifies him as Chief Technology Officer, and the company announced in January 2022 that he would reassume the CTO role while continuing as a board member. His public work includes posts on Elastic’s licensing changes, the company’s trademark dispute with Amazon, and product partnerships including Confluent and Grafana Labs. On GitHub, he uses the handle kimchy and his profile includes repositories related to Elasticsearch and Logstash.
Updated 10 September 2026
Public sources: elastic.co github.com
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