George Panchuk
Qdrant Ecosystem Team Lead
Phuket Province, 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 (85)
similarity-search10
vector-search10
benchmark10
neural-search10
python10
vector-database10
semantic-search10
python-client10
retrieval-augmented-generation10
mlops10
embedded10
cpp10
sql10
fine-tuning10
recommender-system10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
qdrant/fastembed
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Fast, Accurate, Lightweight Python library to make State of the Art Embedding
Contributions:6 releases, 198 reviews, 169 PRs in 1 year 7 months
embeddingsopenairagretrievalretrieval-augmented-generation
qdrant/demo-cloud-faq
Jan 2022 - Mar 2023
Demo of fine-tuning QA models for answering FAQ of cloud providers documentation
Contributions:51 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
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