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Meet Our Team
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Nick Zadrozny
Founder & CEO
Austin, TX
Dan Simpson
Engineering
San Diego, CA
Rob Sears
Support & Platform Engineering
Omaha, NE
Brian Pedersen
Client Services
Cape Town, South Africa
Allison Zadrozny
Designer & Front-End Engineering
Austin, TX
Christine Oen
Product & Support Engineering
Austin, TX
Dru Sellers
Operations
Austin, TX
Melissa Allison
Business & People Ops
Austin, TX
Michelle Greer
Marketing
Austin, TX
The experts in hosted search
Everytime you spin up an Elasticsearch cluster, you’re launching a
technology capable of indexing billions of rows in a fraction of a second.
The underlying technologies behind it all are the Elasticsearch API and
Apache Lucene, a free and
open-source information retrieval software library, originally written
completely in Java.
When you choose Bonsai, you’re not just dealing with people who understand
the Elasticsearch API. The Bonsai team has been hosting Lucene-based search
engines since 2009. Over the course of a decade, our team has built an easy,
efficient way to manage and scale your search engines. Because your app’s
search should “just work”, without requiring countless hours of
configuration from your team.
A History of Bonsai
Bonsai has deep roots in hosted and scalable search.
February 2005
The first prominent open source search library, Apache Lucene, becomes a top-level Apache project. Modern search is born.
September 2008
The Apache Foundation releases the first version of Apache Solr, a search engine built on top of Lucene.
August 2009
The Bonsai team launches Websolr, a hosted version of Solr. It is the first hosted version of Solr on the market. Champagne toasts ensue. 🍾🎉
February 2010
Shay Banon releases Elasticsearch, a modern distributed search engine based on Lucene.
October 2012
The Bonsai team launches the first hosted Elasticsearch service in the world. More champagne toasts ensue. 🍾🎉🍾🎉
2012
Bonsai launches the first Heroku Elasticsearch Add-On and supports search for engineering teams at Harvard, Shopify, Salesforce, TrunkClub, and more.
2015
Bonsai adds enterprise-grade integrations and support for Elasticsearch.
Now
16,000+ active clusters on the Bonsai platform.
“We don't have dedicated in-house expertise for Elasticsearch, and the reason we've been able to avoid hiring that expertise is because of the support that we're getting with Bonsai. It's fantastic for us to be able to tap into that knowledge and get advice from them. No one knows Elasticsearch better than Bonsai. ”
— Nathan Sprout, Head of Product, Action Sprout