Simon Willnauer
Founder of Elastic
Berlin Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Tech lead Elasticsearch
2012 - Current
We are the company behind elasticsearch, the innovative and advanced open source distributed search engine. Founded in 2012 by the people behind elasticsearch and Apache Lucene, in order to support the ever-growing user base. elasticsearch is rapidly becoming the world’s most popular open source search solution. Given the maturity it has reached, usage in production environments is resulting in a high demand for a reliable and scalable support offering and professional services.
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
Raised $161,999,996.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund.
Member
2011
Lucene Core Commiter and PMC Member
2006
Lucene is a popular Open Source search library that is very widely used. -- http://lucene.apache.org/java/
Vice President Apache Lucene
2011 - 2012
Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal and financial support for Apache open-source software projects.
Conference Co-Founder
2010
Co-Founder, Organizer & Speaker
Freelancer
2009 - 2016
System Architect
2009 - 2009
Software Engineer
2007 - 2009
High Security Enterprise Systems Detailed technical threat analysis of complex systems Reverse engineering of application and kernel level code for various common operating systems and platforms Source code audits for security vulnerabilities in software in various programming languages and on various platforms Company run by Felix 'FX' Lindner
Consulting db4objects
2007 - 2007
db4objects - consulting, Google Android and fulltext-search related topics
Software Engineering Intern
2007 - 2007
Open Source Program Office
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Software Developer
2007 - 2007
High Security Enterprise Systems Detailed technical threat analysis of complex systems Reverse engineering of application and kernel level code for various common operating systems and platforms Source code audits for security vulnerabilities in software in various programming languages and on various platforms Company run by Felix 'FX' Lindner
Software Developer
2005 - 2006
Part time junior developer backend, persistence Layer, Java 2 EE Systems, search engines (Lucene)