Ivan 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.
5 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
Stackoverflow
291reputation
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Github Skills (128)
similarity-search10
vector-search10
graph-algorithms10
neural-search10
python10
vector-database10
graph-database10
semantic-search10
mage10
fault-tolerance10
stream-processing10
memgraph10
streaming10
modular10
nosql10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
memgraph/data-streams
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
Publicly available real-time data sets on Kafka, Redpanda, RabbitMQ & Apache Pulsar
Contributions:1 review, 39 commits, 10 PRs in 7 months
pulsarreal-time-datadata-streamstreamsstomp
memgraph/starlink
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
This project implements dynamic shortest-path routing for Starlink using Memgraph. Starlink satellites are low earth orbit communications satellites currently being launched and operated by SpaceX.
Contributions:97 commits, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
cyphergraph-algorithmsgraph-databasememgraphstarlink
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