Bob van Luijt
Founder at Weaviate
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarBob van Luijt is a founder and back-end engineer with 11 years of experience, based in Amsterdam, who leads and develops the core of Weaviate, an open-source cloud-native vector database that combines vector search with structured filtering. As CEO and co-founder he blends hands-on system design with product leadership, shipping scalable, fault-tolerant database features and APIs. His GitHub work shows deep involvement in Weaviate’s architecture and deliberate additions of libraries and functionality to advance its capabilities. Comfortable at the intersection of infrastructure and applied ML, he focuses on pragmatic engineering that turns research-grade vector search into production-ready services.
11 years of coding experience
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javascript10
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apidoc10
python9
nodejs9
tfrecord6
golang6
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
weaviate/weaviate
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
Weaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structured filtering with the fault tolerance and scalability of a cloud-native database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 1299 commits, 190 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Bob's contributions center around building and maintaining the core Weaviate application and its features. The commits indicate the addition of new libraries for a specific purpose related to the weaviate project. The commits involved implementing functionalities within various aspects of the application's API.
cloud-nativefault-tolerancevector-databasevector-searchweaviate
weaviate/weaviate-on-gcp-marketplace
Sep 2020 - Apr 2023
Required Images and Build Scripts to publish Weaviate on GCP Marketplace
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
publishgcpmarketplaceweaviategoogle-cloud-platform
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