George Panchuk
Qdrant Ecosystem Team Lead
Bangkok, Thailand
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Panchuk is a machine learning and software engineering leader with 9 years of experience, currently heading the Qdrant Ecosystem team from Phuket. He combines hands-on ML engineering—authoring the Quaterion similarity learning framework and maintaining the Qdrant Python client—with product-focused work building demos, benchmarks, and customer search applications. His background spans building high-throughput ETL and microservice systems with Kafka, ClickHouse and RabbitMQ, and deploying stable vector search clusters for cloud environments. A graduate of Bauman MSTU and HSE (Master’s in machine learning and data-intensive systems), he brings both systems-level engineering and applied ML expertise, with a knack for turning research-quality similarity models into production-ready developer tooling.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Machine learning and data-intensive systems, Master's degree, Machine learning and data-intensive systems at Higher School of EconomicsBachelor's degree, Computer Systems, Complexes and Networks, Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems, Complexes and Networks at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
English, Russian
Github Skills (83)
similarity-search10
vector-search10
benchmark10
neural-search10
python10
vector-database10
semantic-search10
retrieval-augmented-generation10
mlops10
llama-index10
cursor10
chatgpt10
ai10
fine-tuning10
recommender-system10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
qdrant/quaterion-models
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
The collection of bulding blocks building fine-tunable metric learning models
Contributions:3 reviews, 51 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
metric-learning
qdrant/fastembed
Aug 2023 - May 2026
Fast, Accurate, Lightweight Python library to make State of the Art Embedding
Contributions:10 releases, 209 reviews, 192 PRs in 2 years 9 months
pythonembeddingsopenairagretrieval
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