--- 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 AI. - id: 1 headTitle: Distinguished Ambassador headIcon: src: /icons/fill/sparks-purple.svg alt: Sparks image: src: /img/stars/robert-caulk.jpg alt: Robert Caulk Photo name: Robert Caulk position: Founder of 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 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/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: 2 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: 3 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: 4 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: 5 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: 6 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: 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: Process engineer, with a passion for ML and AI. Benito developed and documented multiple MLOps and LLM projects using Qdrant. - 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. Building and sharing his projects using Qdrant. - id: 12 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: 13 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: 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 and a track record in AI product development, training. - id: 19 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: 20 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: 21 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: 22 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. link: text: Read the Qdrant Stars Handbook url: https://qdrant.github.io/qdrant-stars-handbook/ sitemapExclude: true ---