--- 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 - id: 2 headTitle: Distinguished Ambassador headIcon: src: /icons/fill/sparks-purple.svg alt: Sparks image: src: /img/stars/tarun-jain.jpg alt: Tarun Jain Photo name: Tarun Jain position: Founding Engineer at Kaivid Labs 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/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: 1 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: 2 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: 3 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: 4 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: 5 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: 6 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: 7 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: 8 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: 9 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: 10 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: 11 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: 12 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: 13 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: 14 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: 15 image: src: /img/stars/vaibhava-photo.jpg alt: Vaibhava Laxmi Photo name: Vaibhava Laxmi position: AI Engineer description: Passionate about building intelligent retrieval and reasoning systems using Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies, Vector Databases, and Large Language Models. - id: 16 image: src: /img/stars/ian-walker-photo.jpg alt: Ian Walker Photo name: Ian Walker position: Founder @ Base21.uk description: A software developer focused on vector search applications using Qdrant since 2023. Creator of articles and videos showcasing Qdrant, especially with Rust and FastEmbed. - id: 17 image: src: /img/stars/kevin-photo.JPG alt: Kevin Figueroa Photo name: Kevin Figueroa position: Senior Red Teamer description: Cybersecurity professional with 30+ years experience specializing in adversarial simulation and advanced Red Team operations. Integrates AI-driven automation and vector database technologies to build cyber intelligence platforms using Qdrant. link: text: Read the Qdrant Stars Handbook url: https://qdrant.github.io/qdrant-stars-handbook/ sitemapExclude: true ---