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Salvatore Sanfilippo

Redis Creator

Stepped back

Successor Appointed

Succeeded by Redis Team since 2020-06-30 Salvatore stepped back from Redis maintenance in June 2020. Redis is now maintained by a team at Redis Labs with community contributors.

Stepped Back

This maintainer has reduced their involvement in day-to-day maintenance.

Biography

Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez) created Redis in 2009, the most popular in-memory data store, and led its development for over a decade before stepping back from day-to-day maintenance.

Daily Work

Working on personal projects
Contributing to Redis occasionally
Writing about software development
Exploring new ideas

Challenges

“Redis was designed to be simple and fast. Maintaining that simplicity while adding features is always a tension.”

Impact

Redis powers caching and real-time features for millions of applications worldwide.

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