IvanΒ Despot
Technical Writer & DevEx Engineer at Weaviate
Croatia
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Top SchoolIvan Despot is a Technical Writer and Developer Experience Engineer with six years of experience crafting clear documentation, demos, and tooling for developer-facing products. Currently at Weaviate, he combines hands-on React/Docusaurus development with practical code examples and user-focused testing to streamline onboarding for vector-database users. His background spans embedded and telecom-grade software at Ericsson, full-stack DevRel and data-driven demos at Memgraph, and hands-on infrastructure and event-scale platforms, giving him a rare cross-domain view of developer pain points. Ivan pairs a rigorous academic foundation from FER with multilingual coding fluency (Python, JavaScript, C/C++, Java, Go) and a knack for translating complex protocols and standards into accessible, reusable artifacts. Notably, he actively channels product feedback into engineering improvements, bridging docs, demos, and product to improve real developer workflows.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Computing, Computer Science, Master of Science in Computing, Computer Science at FER
Croatian, English, German
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Github Skills (120)
similarity-search10
vector-search10
graph-algorithms10
neural-search10
python10
vector-database10
graph-database10
semantic-search10
mlops10
fault-tolerance10
cpp10
cloud-native10
memgraph10
streaming10
algolia10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
memgraph/reddit-network-explorer
Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
A graph-powered Reddit explorer that can perform real-time graph visualizations and sentiment analysis.
Contributions:38 commits, 16 pushes in 3 months
graphgraph-visualizationredditsentiment-analysisreddit-api
memgraph/protein-explorer
Jun 2021 - Dec 2021
Visualizing protein-protein interaction networks
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
interactionprotein-proteinvisualizingproteinprotein-protein-interaction
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