Salvatore Sanfilippo
Also known as antirez
Italian programmer (antirez) who created Redis; also wrote hping and the idle scan.
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- Salvatore Sanfilippo, known online as antirez, is an Italian programmer who created the in-memory database Redis in 2009 and led it for 11 years before stepping down as maintainer in June 2020.
- He returned to Redis, the company, as an evangelist in December 2024 and added Vector Sets for similarity search.
- Earlier, in computer security, he wrote the packet tool hping and first published the idle scan in 1998.
- He also wrote the science fiction novel Wohpe (2022) and has a YouTube channel in Italian and English.
Key facts
- Born
- 7 March 1977, Campobello di Licata, Sicily1
- Redis
- Started it in 2009 to scale his startup LLOOGG; lead developer until June 2020; back at Redis the company as an evangelist from December 20241
- Security
- hping; the idle scan (published 1998)1
- Other projects
- Kilo, dump1090, linenoise, Disque, Jim Tcl1
- Novel
- Wohpe (2022)1
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