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Meet our Stars	id headTitle headIcon image name position description 0 Distinguished Ambassador src alt /icons/fill/sparks-purple.svg Sparks src alt /img/stars/m-k-pavan-kumar.jpg M K Pavan Kumar Photo M K Pavan Kumar Data Scientist and Lead GenAI Kameshwara Pavan Kumar Mantha is a seasoned technology expert with +14 years of extensive experience in full stack development, cloud solutions, and AI. id headTitle headIcon image name position description 1 Distinguished Ambassador src alt /icons/fill/sparks-purple.svg Sparks src alt /img/stars/robert-caulk.jpg Robert Caulk Photo Robert Caulk Founder of Emergent Methods Robert is working with a team on AskNews.app to adaptively enrich, index, and report on over 1 million news articles per day	id image name position description 0 src alt /img/stars/joshua-mo.jpg Joshua Mo Photo Joshua Mo DevRel Engineer @ Playgrounds Writing educational content that combines Rust, LLMs, and Qdrant to create demos for AI assisted applications. Primary maintainer and contributor to Rig. id image name position description 1 src alt /img/stars/nick-khami.jpg Nick Khami Photo Nicholas Khami CEO and Co-Founder @ Trieve Currently working on dense/sparse vector hybrid search and RAG at Trieve (YC W24). Has been using Qdrant since late 2022. id image name position description 2 src alt /img/stars/nicola-procopio.jpg Nicola Procopio Photo Nicola Procopio Senior Data Scientist @ ACSoftware 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 image name position description 3 src alt /img/stars/bojan-jakimovski.jpg Bojan Jakimovski Photo Bojan Jakimovski Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ Loka 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 image name position description 4 src alt /img/stars/haydar-kulekci.jpg Haydar KULEKCI Photo Haydar Kulekci Founder @ StartupDeal 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 image name position description 5 src alt /img/stars/astra-clelia-bertelli.jpg Astra Clelia Bertelli Photo Astra Clelia Bertelli Open Sourceress @ LlamaIndex 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 image name position description 6 src alt /img/stars/miguel-otero.jpg Miguel Otero Pedrido Photo Miguel Otero Pedrido Founder @ The Neural Maze 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 image name position description 7 src alt /img/stars/eduardo-vasquez.jpg Eduardo Vasquez Photo Eduardo Vasquez Data Scientist and MLOps Engineer 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 image name position description 8 src alt /img/stars/benito-martin.jpg Benito Martin Photo Benito Martin Independent Consultant Process engineer, with a passion for ML and AI. Benito developed and documented multiple MLOps and LLM projects using Qdrant. id image name position description 9 src alt /img/stars/nirant-kasliwal.jpg Nirant Kasliwal Photo Nirant Kasliwal Founder @ Scaled Focus 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 image name position description 10 src alt /img/stars/denzell-ford.jpg Denzell Ford Photo Denzell Ford Founder and CTO @ Trieve 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 image name position description 11 src alt /img/stars/pavan-nagula.jpg Pavan Nagula Photo Pavan Nagula Data Scientist @ Scale AI 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 image name position description 12 src alt /img/stars/guohao-li.jpg Guohao Li Photo Guohao Li Founder @ Eigent.AI 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 image name position description 13 src alt /img/stars/sahin-utar.jpg Şahin Utar Photo Şahin Utar Co-Founder @ ThingsHappen 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 image name position description 14 src alt /img/stars/niranjan-akella.jpg Niranjan Akella Photo Niranjan Akella MLOps R&D @ Genesys AI engineer with a passion for science and deep expertise in deploying LLMs, diffusion, and vision models at scale. id image name position description 15 src alt /img/stars/turja-chaudhuri.jpg Turja Narayan Chaudhuri Photo Turja Chaudhuri Global Platform Presales Leader @ EY Global Platform Presales Leader, EY. 13+ years of experience in the IT Industry across Samsung, PwC, EY, and Accenture. id image name position description 16 src alt /img/stars/parichay-das.jpg Parichay Das Photo Parichay Das Global Solutions Lead @ LTIMindtree Tech leader with 14+ years of experience in AI and GenAI, helping global clients drive innovation through strategy, architecture, and data. id image name position description 17 src alt /img/stars/tarun-jain.jpg Tarun Jain Photo Tarun Jain Super Agent @ AI Planet 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 image name position description 18 src alt /img/stars/athos-g.jpg Athos Georgiou Photo Athos Georgiou R&D Technical AI Lead @ CGI 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 image name position description 19 src alt /img/stars/deepak-chawla.jpg Deepak Chawla Photo Deepak Chawla Founder @ HiDevs 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 image name position description 20 src alt /img/stars/saurabh-rai.jpg Saurabh Rai Photo Saurabh Rai Lead Engineer @ Resume Matcher 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 image name position description 21 src alt /img/stars/samir-akarioh.jpg Samir Akarioh Photo Samir Akarioh Developer Advocate @ Gatling DevOps and AI educator, speaking globally. Former Qdrant support engineer, now creating educational content that often features real-world use of vector search. id image name position description 22 src alt /img/stars/roan-weigert.jpg Roan Weigert Photo Roan Weigert DevRel AI Engineer @ APARAVI 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.	text url Read the Qdrant Stars Handbook https://qdrant.github.io/qdrant-stars-handbook/	true