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title: Meet our Stars
mainCards:
- id: 0
  headTitle: Distinguished Ambassador
  headIcon:
    src: /icons/fill/sparks-purple.svg
    alt: Sparks
  image:
    src: /img/stars/m-k-pavan-kumar.jpg
    alt: M K Pavan Kumar Photo
  name: M K Pavan Kumar
  position: Data Scientist and Lead GenAI
  description: Kameshwara Pavan Kumar Mantha is a seasoned technology expert with 14 years of extensive experience in full stack development, cloud solutions, and artificial intelligence.<br><br>Specializing in Generative AI and Large Language Models, Pavan has established himself as a leader in these cutting-edge domains.
cards:
  - id: 0
    image:
      src: /img/stars/robert-caulk.jpg
      alt: Robert Caulk Photo
    name: Robert Caulk
    position: Founder @ Emergent Methods
    description: Robert is working with a team on AskNews.app to adaptively enrich, index, and report on over 1 million news articles per day
  - id: 1
    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 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.
  - id: 2
    image:
      src: /img/stars/nick-khami.jpg
      alt: Nick Khami Photo
    name: Nicholas Khami
    position: CEO and Co-Founder @ Trieve
    description: Currently working on dense/sparse vector hybrid search and RAG at Trieve (YC W24). Has been using Qdrant since late 2022.
  - id: 3
    image:
      src: /img/stars/nicola-procopio.jpg
      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.
  - id: 4
    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: 5
    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: 6
    image:
      src: /img/stars/astra-clelia-bertelli.jpg
      alt: Astra Clelia Bertelli Photo
    name: Astra Clelia Bertelli
    position: AI Engineer, Bioinformatics researcher
    description: Foundation Engineer @ Criad LTD, Bioinformatics researcher @ Natural History Museum Vienna. Writing about AI, tech, environment and biology.
  - id: 7
    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
    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.
  - id: 9
    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
    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
    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.
  - id: 12
    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.
  - id: 13
    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.
  - id: 14
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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.
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