Sonam Pankaj

Co-Founder

Berlin, Berlin, Germany4 yrs 3 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Co-Founder of innovative AI-driven products.
Expertise in Rust and vector databases.
Published research in computational linguistics.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused AI product leader with a strong technical background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementAiGenerative AiNatural Language Processing (nlp)Machine Learning

Other Skills

Rustvector databaseagentic frameworkAPIsthought leadershipmarket positioningtopic modelingclinical trials analyticsanomaly detectioncorrosion detectionpath planningobstacle avoidanceLarge Language Models (LLM)Conversational AIDocumentation

About

VP of product at Qdrant, as they kept copying everything from embedanything without any acknowledgement. Building StarlightSearch, Rust-powered Agentic, and RAG application layer for consumer tech, cloud, and robotics.

Experience

Starlightsearch

CTO & Co-Founder

Nov 2025 – Present · 5 mos

StarlightSearch, started with an open-source initiative called EmbedAnything. It's designed and written in Rust to reduce latency between datasource to vector database. We have received contributions from Elastic, Milvus, and Qdrant, and have crossed over 1k+ stars.
We also built LUMO, which is an agentic framework written in Rust, where deployment is taken care by, and you just need to use our APIs to execute the tasks.
Now StarlightSearch goal is to bring data, control, and effciency to every agentic system, by training SLMs on agentic tasks on our own cluster.

Rustvector databaseagentic frameworkAPIsProduct ManagementAI

Articul8 ai

GenerativeAI Evangelist

Nov 2024 – Mar 2025 · 4 mos · Hybrid

Ariticul8 is a spin-off of Intel, as their efforts in GenAI. Directed Generative AI thought leadership efforts as part of the go-to-market team, establishing strategic positioning and developing executive-level content to advance market presence

Generative AIthought leadershipmarket positioningProduct Management

Saama

AI Researcher

Apr 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Published paper at International conference for computational linguistics
Pfizer clinical trials analytics to predict which subject can drop out of the study
NIEH - Topic Modelling
Biases in word embeddings for NIH proposal

Natural Language Processing (NLP)topic modelingclinical trials analytics