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

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.

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

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.

Recognition

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

Travel

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

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

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.

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

Distinguished Ambassador Sparks

Tarun Jain

Founding Engineer at Stealth and YouTube @AiwithTarun

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.

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.

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.

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.

Benito Martin

Independent Consultant

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Faraz Gurramkonda

AI Software Engineer @ Great Lakes Civil Services

A software engineer focused on scalable AI, automation, and developer tools. Founder of Xautomation and creator of VRTestSniffer (ASE 2025).

Pavan Vemuri

Director of Product Engineering @ SDVerse

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.

Mihir Inamdar

AI @Sutherland

Mihir Inamdar is an Open Source Developer Advocate focused on scalable AI, generative models, and vector database–powered RAG systems.

Mohammed Arbi

Machine Learning Engineer

Building intelligent AI systems with Generative AI, RAG, MLOps, and Qdrant. Active GDG mentor, sharing knowledge and supporting the developer community.

Vaibhava Laxmi

AI Engineer

Passionate about building intelligent retrieval and reasoning systems using Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies, Vector Databases, and Large Language Models.

Ian Walker

Founder @ Base21.uk

A software developer focused on vector search applications using Qdrant since 2023. Creator of articles and videos showcasing Qdrant, especially with Rust and FastEmbed.

Read the Qdrant Stars Handbook