From 844d304756548446f493667669c627f28e50b97f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Manas Chopra Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:54:52 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] removal of inactive stars --- qdrant-landing/content/stars/stars-list.md | 125 ++------------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-) diff --git a/qdrant-landing/content/stars/stars-list.md b/qdrant-landing/content/stars/stars-list.md index 77f55cbb2..ad6e48735 100644 --- a/qdrant-landing/content/stars/stars-list.md +++ b/qdrant-landing/content/stars/stars-list.md @@ -36,181 +36,76 @@ mainCards: description: Google Developer Expert in AI and two-time Google Summer of Code contributor (Red Hen Lab and caMicroscope). Creates educational AI content on YouTube and regularly speaks at tech events. cards: - id: 0 - image: - src: /img/stars/joshua-mo.jpg - alt: Joshua Mo Photo - name: Joshua Mo - position: DevRel Engineer @ Playgrounds - description: Writing educational content that combines Rust, LLMs, and Qdrant to create demos for AI assisted applications. Primary maintainer and contributor to Rig. - - id: 1 image: src: /img/stars/nicola-procopio.jpg alt: Nicola Procopio Photo name: Nicola Procopio position: Senior Data Scientist @ ACSoftware description: Data scientist and contributor to FastEmbed, Haystack, and Cheshire Cat A.I., powered by Qdrant. Active in open source since 2009, sharing insights through talks and tutorials. - - id: 2 - image: - src: /img/stars/bojan-jakimovski.jpg - alt: Bojan Jakimovski Photo - name: Bojan Jakimovski - position: Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ Loka - description: Master’s in Electrical Engineering, specialized in Dedicated Computer Systems. Passionate about technology and excited to showcase Qdrant’s capabilities as a vector database. - - id: 3 - image: - src: /img/stars/haydar-kulekci.jpg - alt: Haydar KULEKCI Photo - name: Haydar Kulekci - position: Founder @ StartupDeal - description: Senior software engineer and consultant with over 10 years of experience in data management, processing, and software development. Creator of the PHP Client for Qdrant. - - id: 4 - image: - src: /img/stars/astra-clelia-bertelli.jpg - alt: Astra Clelia Bertelli Photo - name: Astra Clelia Bertelli - position: Open Sourceress @ LlamaIndex - description: Foundation Engineer at Criad LTD and Bioinformatics Researcher at the Natural History Museum Vienna. Writes about AI, tech, the environment, and biology, using Qdrant for vector search. - - id: 5 - image: - src: /img/stars/miguel-otero.jpg - alt: Miguel Otero Pedrido Photo - name: Miguel Otero Pedrido - position: Founder @ The Neural Maze - description: Machine Learning Engineer with 7+ years of experience. Creates in-depth tutorials and courses on building AI applications from scratch, and loves Qdrant for vector search. - - id: 6 + - id: 1 image: src: /img/stars/eduardo-vasquez.jpg alt: Eduardo Vasquez Photo name: Eduardo Vasquez position: Data Scientist and MLOps Engineer description: Exploring generative AI and LLMs, with a focus on RAG workflows and fine-tuning. Shares practical insights on YouTube, backed by an MSc in Statistics and Data Science. - - id: 7 - image: - src: /img/stars/benito-martin.jpg - alt: Benito Martin Photo - name: Benito Martin - position: Independent Consultant - description: Process engineer, with a passion for ML and AI. Benito developed and documented multiple MLOps and LLM projects using Qdrant. - - id: 8 - image: - src: /img/stars/nirant-kasliwal.jpg - alt: Nirant Kasliwal Photo - name: Nirant Kasliwal - position: Founder @ Scaled Focus - description: ML consultant focused on NLP and vision for early-stage products. Author of an NLP book endorsed in Stanford’s CS230, and creator of FastEmbed at Qdrant. - - id: 9 - image: - src: /img/stars/denzell-ford.jpg - alt: Denzell Ford Photo - name: Denzell Ford - position: Founder and CTO @ Trieve - description: Full-stack developer and AI engineer with hands-on experience in LLMs, vision models, and scalable systems. Has been using Qdrant since late 2022 and is passionate about supporting the Qdrant community. - - id: 10 - image: - src: /img/stars/pavan-nagula.jpg - alt: Pavan Nagula Photo - name: Pavan Nagula - position: Data Scientist @ Scale AI - description: Data scientist specializing in AI, ML, and big data analytics. Loves experimenting with new technologies in the AI and ML space. Building and sharing his projects using Qdrant. - - id: 11 - image: - src: /img/stars/guohao-li.jpg - alt: Guohao Li Photo - name: Guohao Li - position: Founder @ Eigent.AI - description: Open-source AI researcher leading the development of intelligent agents that can perceive, learn, communicate, reason, and act with CAMEL-AI, powered by Qdrant. - - id: 12 - image: - src: /img/stars/sahin-utar.jpg - alt: Şahin Utar Photo - name: Şahin Utar - position: Co-Founder @ ThingsHappen - description: Dedicated RAG evangelist since 2022, leverages vector databases in his startups as an early GenAI adopter. Now using Qdrant and RAG to simplify complex consumer challenges. - - id: 13 + - id: 2 image: src: /img/stars/niranjan-akella.jpg alt: Niranjan Akella Photo name: Niranjan Akella position: MLOps R&D @ Genesys description: AI engineer with a passion for science and deep expertise in deploying LLMs, diffusion, and vision models at scale. - - id: 14 - image: - src: /img/stars/turja-chaudhuri.jpg - alt: Turja Narayan Chaudhuri Photo - name: Turja Chaudhuri - position: Global Platform Presales Leader @ EY - description: Global Platform Presales Leader, EY. 13+ years of experience in the IT Industry across Samsung, PwC, EY, and Accenture. - - id: 15 + - id: 3 image: src: /img/stars/parichay-das.jpg alt: Parichay Das Photo name: Parichay Das position: Global Solutions Lead @ LTIMindtree description: Tech leader with 14+ years of experience in AI and GenAI, helping global clients drive innovation through strategy, architecture, and data. - - id: 16 + - id: 4 image: src: /img/stars/athos-g.jpg alt: Athos Georgiou Photo name: Athos Georgiou position: R&D Technical AI Lead @ CGI description: R&D Technical AI Lead with 10+ years across AI, finance, academia, and energy. Open-source contributor and a track record in AI product development, training. - - id: 17 + - id: 5 image: src: /img/stars/deepak-chawla.jpg alt: Deepak Chawla Photo name: Deepak Chawla position: Founder @ HiDevs description: Founder of HiDevs with 10+ years of experience in AI, ML, and GenAI. Has mentored over 3,000 students, led 50+ webinars and workshops, teaching vector search and RAG using Qdrant. - - id: 18 - image: - src: /img/stars/saurabh-rai.jpg - alt: Saurabh Rai Photo - name: Saurabh Rai - position: Lead Engineer @ Resume Matcher - description: Creator of Resume Matcher, an open-source tool trusted by 30K+ users worldwide to optimize resumes for ATS and real-world roles, powered by Qdrant. - - id: 19 - image: - src: /img/stars/samir-akarioh.jpg - alt: Samir Akarioh Photo - name: Samir Akarioh - position: Developer Advocate @ Gatling - description: DevOps and AI educator, speaking globally. Former Qdrant support engineer, now creating educational content that often features real-world use of vector search. - - id: 20 - image: - src: /img/stars/roan-weigert.jpg - alt: Roan Weigert Photo - name: Roan Weigert - position: DevRel AI Engineer @ APARAVI - description: AI creator spotlighting San Francisco’s tech scene through interviews with leading founders, investors, and experts. Shares videos on AI innovation AI innovation with Qdrant as the vector DB. - - id: 21 + - id: 6 image: src: /img/stars/faraz-photo.jpg alt: Faraz Gurramkonda Photo name: Faraz Gurramkonda position: AI Software Engineer @ Great Lakes Civil Services description: A software engineer focused on scalable AI, automation, and developer tools. Founder of Xautomation and creator of VRTestSniffer (ASE 2025). - - id: 22 + - id: 7 image: src: /img/stars/pavan-photo.jpg alt: Pavan Vemuri Photo name: Pavan Vemuri position: Director of Product Engineering @ SDVerse description: AI strategist and MLOps expert with 15+ years of experience in software-defined vehicles and scalable systems. Specialized in Gen AI, digital transformation, and vector database solutions. - - id: 23 + - id: 8 image: src: /img/stars/mihir-photo.jpg alt: Mihir Inamdar Photo name: Mihir Inamdar position: AI @Sutherland description: Mihir Inamdar is an Open Source Developer Advocate focused on scalable AI, generative models, and vector database–powered RAG systems. - - id: 24 + - id: 9 image: src: /img/stars/mohammed-photo.jpg alt: Mohammed Arbi name: Mohammed Arbi position: Machine Learning Engineer description: Building intelligent AI systems with Generative AI, RAG, MLOps, and Qdrant. Active GDG mentor, sharing knowledge and supporting the developer community. - - id: 25 + - id: 10 image: src: /img/stars/vaibhava-photo.jpg alt: Vaibhava Laxmi