Sila Fidan
Co-Founder at After5
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSila Fidan is a mission-driven founder and commercial leader with 3 years of experience scaling consumer and B2B tech ventures across Europe. As Co-Founder of After5 she has helped create 100K+ authentic IRL connections for ambitious women across five countries, while previously driving early revenue and customer growth at Weaviate during its Series A–B era. She combines hands-on sales execution—consistently overachieving targets at Criteo and Paraşüt—with startup grit from founding two ventures and participating in Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs. Based in the Randstad, Sila pairs international academic training in political science and business with a talent for turning community-first product ideas into measurable, repeatable growth.
3 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Lisans Derecesi, International Relations & Business Administration (100% scholarship), 3.51 / 4.0, Lisans Derecesi, International Relations & Business Administration (100% scholarship), 3.51 / 4.0 at İstanbul Bilgi ÜniversitesiBachelor's degree, Political Science and Government, Bachelor's degree, Political Science and Government at Uppsala University
English, Turkish, Dutch
Github Skills (23)
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search-engine8
weaviate8
similarity-search8
image-search8
neural-search7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
weaviate/weaviate
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
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.
Contributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 1 branch in 1 day
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