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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
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
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