adding Roan, Samir, Deepak, Miguel, and Saurabh

qdrant-landing/content/stars/stars-list.md

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       alt: Joshua Mo Photo
     name: Joshua Mo
     position: DevRel Engineer @ Playgrounds
-    description: Writing educational content that combines Rust with AI to create demos for AI assisted applications, as well as assisting with being a primary maintainer and contributor to their Rust AI framework, Rig.
+    description: Writing educational content that combines Rust, LLMs, and Qdrant to create demos for AI assisted applications. Primary maintainer and contributor to Rig.
   - id: 2
     image:
       src: /img/stars/nick-khami.jpg
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ cards:
       alt: Nicola Procopio Photo
     name: Nicola Procopio
     position: Senior Data Scientist @ ACSoftware
-    description: Data scientist and open-source contributor since 2009, using Qdrant since 2023. Works on FastEmbed in Haystack, core Haystack, and vector search for Cheshire Cat A.I., sharing insights through articles, tutorials, and talks.
+    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: 4
     image:
       src: /img/stars/bojan-jakimovski.jpg
@@ -60,92 +60,127 @@ cards:
       src: /img/stars/astra-clelia-bertelli.jpg
       alt: Astra Clelia Bertelli Photo
     name: Astra Clelia Bertelli
-    position: AI Engineer, Bioinformatics researcher
+    position: Open Sourceress @ LlamaIndex
-    description: Foundation Engineer @ Criad LTD, Bioinformatics researcher @ Natural History Museum Vienna. Writing about AI, tech, environment and biology.
+    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: 7
+    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: 8
     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: 8
+  - id: 9
     image:
       src: /img/stars/benito-martin.jpg
       alt: Benito Martin Photo
     name: Benito Martin
     position: Independent Consultant 
-    description: Over the past year, Benito developed MLOps and LLM projects. Based in Switzerland, Benito continues to advance his skills.
+    description: Process engineer, with a passion for ML and AI. Benito developed and documented multiple MLOps and LLM projects using Qdrant.
-  - id: 9
+  - id: 10
     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: 10
+  - id: 11
     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: 11
+  - id: 12
     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. Recently impressed by the innovative work happening at Qdrant.
+    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: 12
+  - id: 13
     image:
       src: /img/stars/guohao-li.jpg
       alt: Guohao Li Photo
     name: Guohao Li
     position: Founder @ Eigent.AI
-    description: An artificial intelligence researcher and an open-source contributor working on building intelligent agents that can perceive, learn, communicate, reason, and act. He is the core lead of the open source projects CAMEL-AI.org.
+    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: 13
+  - id: 14
     image:
       src: /img/stars/sahin-utar.jpg
       alt: Şahin Utar Photo
     name: Şahin Utar
     position: Co-Founder @ ThingsHappen
-    description: Software Buildera and entrepreneur. Dedicated RAG evangelist since 2022, leverages vector databases in his startups as an early GenAI adopter. A former CTO, now an entrepreneur, using GenAI, RAG, and domain ontologies to simplify complex consumer challenges.
+    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: 14
+  - id: 15
     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: 15
+  - id: 16
     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: 16
+  - id: 17
     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: 17
+  - id: 18
     image:
       src: /img/stars/tarun-jain.jpg
       alt: Tarun Jain Photo
     name: Tarun Jain
     position: Super Agent @ AI Planet
     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.
-  - id: 18
+  - id: 19
     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 with 2K+ commits in 2024 and a track record in AI product development, training, and technical governance.
+    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: 20
+    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: 21
+    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: 22
+    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: 23
+    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.
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