Victoria Slocum

Machine Learning Engineer

Berlin, Berlin, Germany4 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Created viral technical content with 50k+ followers.
Delivered 15+ presentations at international conferences.
Produced high-impact blog content driving substantial traffic.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning Developer Advocate specializing in SaaS and community engagement.

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Core Skills

Machine LearningDeveloper Advocacy

Other Skills

Python (Programming Language)Video ProductionCommunity EngagementSocial MediaContent CreationWeb Content WritingResearchFigma (Software)Web DevelopmentGraphic DesignTypeScriptEducational TechnologyTeachingLinguisticsComputational Linguistics

About

I work at the intersection of machine learning and developer experience, helping people understand and build with vector databases and AI tooling. Currently focused on making complex ML concepts more accessible through advanced demo projects, hands-on tutorials and clear explanations. My background spans from developer advocacy at Explosion (the spaCy team), and now ML engineering on the Growth team at Weaviate. I'm particularly interested in how AI agents are changing the way we build software, though I believe you still need to understand the fundamentals to use these tools effectively. I spend a lot of time creating content that breaks down technical concepts - writing blog posts, making diagrams and videos, and speaking at conferences. My goal is to help other developers navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape without getting lost in the hype. When I'm not coding or creating content, I'm probably training for an (ultra)marathon, picking up a new language, or working on side projects.

Experience

Weaviate

Machine Learning Engineer

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Berlin, Germany · Remote

Driving developer adoption and technical education through content creation, community engagement, and strategic social media initiatives. Lead technical education and created content and a personal brand that helps bridges complex ML concepts with practical applications.
Drove up to 2000+ sales leads per quarter via personal social media content and community engagement
Mastered growth on social media, building personal socials to 50k+ followers (X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram) in one year with consistent technical content creation and community interaction
Created viral technical content including posts on building with modern AI technology and vector search fundamentals that generated significant engagement across all channels
Produced high-quality technical videos and event recap content, including educational explainers and conference coverage that enhance community engagement and knowledge sharing
Delivered 15+ technical presentations at conferences, meetups, and webinars across Berlin, Amsterdam, San Francisco, and online audiences
Generated 600+ signups through one webinar series, covering vector embeddings, vector search, and AI in production
Produced high-impact blog content including "Vector Search Explained" and technical deep-dives that drive substantial website traffic from social media channels
Focus on making complex vector database and AI agent concepts accessible through hands-on projects, visual explanations, and practical demonstrations. Also collaborated closely with the GTM team to translate technical expertise into measurable developer engagement and business impact.

Python (Programming Language)Video ProductionMachine LearningDeveloper Advocacy

Explosion

2 roles

Developer Advocate

Jan 2023 – Aug 2023 · 7 mos

After completing my internship, I was hired as a full-time Developer Advocate. I worked on the OS development team, where I help maintain the spaCy library, create example projects, and care for our community through talks, posts, and visuals.
I was at the forefront of all things community. I took care of writing/editing, creating visuals and releasing posts on our social accounts and blog, speaking at conferences or doing workshops about spaCy and our other products, and brainstorming more ways to help our community use our stack successfully. This required me to maintain knowledge about past, present, and future work done within our company, as well as updates within our community. I love taking complicated concepts and then creating tweets, visuals, talks, or posts that explain them concretely and concisely.
As well as community-related tasks, I also worked on creating new projects around spaCy and Prodigy, maintaining our OS repos, and helping to build features for spaCy. I am continually growing my skills as a self-taught developer and I've been learning tons about writing clean, concise, and understandable code. By being a part of the development team directly, I was able to keep up with new features and fixes to be able to better share updates with our community.

Machine LearningFigma (Software)Developer Advocacy

Developer Advocate Intern

Jun 2022 – Jan 2023 · 7 mos

As a developer advocate intern, I focused on growing my skills in communication and programming by making posts and developing projects to explain our products. By exploring Explosion's stack and learning more about NLP, I was then able to communicate with our community through Twitter and LinkedIn posts about new developments, projects, and cool things I found.
Projects:
spaCy cheat sheet: https://github.com/explosion/assets/blob/main/spaCy/spaCy-cheat-sheet.pdf
Gradio app to showcase some of the features of spaCy: https://huggingface.co/spaces/spacy/gradio_pipeline_visualizer
spaCy briefs series on Twitter to explain concepts of the library in a visual way
Talk at PyData Global on Spancat
Prepared our newsletters

Figma (Software)Python (Programming Language)Developer Advocacy

Uc san diego

2 roles

Instructional Assistant

Sep 2021 – Dec 2021 · 3 mos

Worked as an instructional assistant for LIGN 101, Introduction to Linguistics

Research Assistant

Aug 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

As a high school student and my first year of college, I worked as a researcher in Dr. Robert L. Sah’s cartilage and tissue engineering lab. I started out doing small tasks for the lab, like documentation, inventory, and cleanup. After proving to be hard-working and eager, I was paired up with graduate students to help on their research, where I worked on building visuals to display results, acquiring samples from biomaterial, and doing small experiments on samples. Before leaving the bioengineering field, I had begun a project studying the effects of scoliosis on spinal discs with a scholarship from the university.

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