Victoria Slocum
Machine Learning Engineer at Weaviate
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolVictoria Slocum is a Machine Learning Engineer who blends hands-on ML engineering with developer advocacy to make vector databases, AI agents, and embeddings accessible to developers. With ~5 years of experience at Explosion (spaCy) and Weaviate, she creates high-impact tutorials, demos, videos, and conference talks that drive developer adoption and measurable business outcomes. She has built a strong personal technical brand—growing social followings to 30k+ and generating thousands of sales leads and webinar signups—by translating complex concepts into practical, visual explanations. Victoria is particularly focused on how AI agents reshape software development while emphasizing mastery of fundamentals, and she channels that perspective into viral educational content and tooling examples. Outside work she trains for (ultra)marathons and studies new languages, reflecting a disciplined, growth-oriented approach she brings to technical education and product growth.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Helix High School, La Mesa CAGrossmont College
Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (55)
similarity-search10
weaviate10
vector-search10
search-engine10
prodigy10
artificial-intelligence10
named-entity-recognition10
function-calling10
neural-search10
python10
data-science10
annotations10
image-search10
machine-learning10
approximate-nearest-neighbor-search10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
victorialslocum/victorialslocum
May 2021 - Jun 2025
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
victorialslocum/standup-integration
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:37 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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