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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 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
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