Shay Banon
Founder of ElasticSearch, an Open Source, distributed, RESTful, Search Engine. Director of Technology at GigaSpaces Technologies, a leading provider of a new generation of application platforms for Java and .Net environments. Shay started working on mission critical real time C/C++ systems, later moving to Java (and never looked back). Within the Java world, Shay has worked on a propriety implementation of a distributed rule engine(RETE) server, your typical Java based web projects, and messaging based projects