Andre Zayarni

Co-Founder

Berlin, Berlin, Germany19 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Co-founder of Qdrant, a leading AI vector search solution.
Decades of experience in software development and product management.
Passionate about applying AI to solve real-world problems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Deep Tech entrepreneur specializing in AI applications and vector search technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategyProduct ManagementVector SearchAi ApplicationsVenture Capital

Other Skills

Strategic VisionaryBusiness DevelopmentLeadershipDeep Metric LearningEarly Stage InvestmentTeam ManagementArtificial IntelligenceAgile MethodologiesDistributed SystemsAgile MethodenScalabilityMachine LearningEngineeringScrumVerteilte Systeme

About

Co-founder and CEO of Qdrant, a deep tech venture that aims to bring applied AI applications to the next level with the advanced, blazing-fast, open-source vector search. Enterprise-ready, industrial-scale vector similarity search technology. Qdrant allows embeddings or neural network encoders to be turned into full-fledged applications for matching, semantic searching, recommendations, and more use cases for working with unstructured or semi-structured data analysis. Qdrant is written in Rust, a modern and performant programming language that enables us to deliver a highly scalable and reliable solution. Decades of experience in software development, product management, and co-founding digital companies. Strong background in building innovative and user-centric products and teams. Passionate about applying AI to solve real-world problems and creating value for our customers and partners. A firm believer in a people-first management approach that fosters a culture of trust, collaboration, and growth. The current mission is to establish Qdrant as a new standard for neural search-based AI solutions and to empower developers and businesses to leverage the power of vector databases.

Experience

19 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Playtomic

Investor

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Early Stage InvestmentVenture Capital

Qdrant

2 roles

Co-founder & CEO

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · Berlin, Germany

Disrupting the Applied AI market with genuinely innovative Deep Tech solutions. Qdrant is an open-source Vector Search Database making Deep Metric Learning practical to bring applied AI to the next level.
Deep tech Open Source project, written in Rust 🦀. Establishing a new standard for neural search-based AI solutions. Qdrant allows embeddings or neural network encoders to be turned into full-fledged applications for matching, semantic searching, recommendations, and more use cases for working with unstructured or semi-unstructured data analysis.

Strategic VisionaryBusiness StrategyBusiness DevelopmentProduct ManagementLeadership

Co-Founder

May 2021 – Nov 2021 · 6 mos · Berlin, Germany

Disrupting the Applied AI market with truly innovative Deep Tech solution. Qdrant is an open-source neural search engine making Deep Metric Learning practical to bring applied AI to the next level.
Deep tech Open Source project, written in Rust 🦀. Establishing a new standard for neural search-based AI solutions. Qdrant allows embeddings or neural network encoders to be turned into full-fledged applications for matching, semantic searching, recommendations, and much more use cases for working with unstructured or semi-unstructured data analysis.