Qdrant Stars

A program for developers building, sharing, and leading in the Qdrant community.

Qdrant Stars recognizes and supports our most active contributors. If you’re helping others get more out of Qdrant, this program is for you.

Become a Star
Stars

About the Program

Qdrant Stars is an exclusive program for the top contributors and evangelists inside the Qdrant community.

These are the experts responsible for leading community discussions, creating high-quality content, and participating in Qdrant’s events and meetups.

Stars program

Everything you need to extend your current reach to be the voice of the developer community and represent Qdrant

Training
Training

You will be equipped with the assets and knowledge to organize and execute successful talks and events. Get access to our content library with slide decks, templates, and more.

Award
Recognition

Win a certificate and be featured on our website page. Plus, enjoy the distinction of receiving exclusive Qdrant swag.

Travel
Travel

Benefit from a dedicated travel fund for speaking engagements at developer conferences.

Star ticket
Beta-tests

Get a front-row seat to the future of Qdrant with opportunities to beta-test new releases and access our detailed product roadmap.

Meet our Stars

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Distinguished Ambassador Sparks

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.

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Distinguished Ambassador Sparks

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Benito Martin

Independent Consultant

Process engineer, with a passion for ML and AI. Benito developed and documented multiple MLOps and LLM projects using Qdrant.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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