Etienne Dilocker (He/Him)

CTO & Co-Founder at Weaviate

I am a Co-Founder and currently the CTO at SeMI Technologies - the company behind the open-source vector search engine Weaviate. I have a deep-tech background with a focus on distributed systems, and cloud technology. My current research interests are auto-scaling databases and new vector-index types, making vector search more resource-efficient at scale.

I believe that the most important fact for team productivity is long-term team health. This includes social safety, happiness, time and space for managing tech debt, room for creativity and passion, enabling each other, and having an atmosphere to learn every day - from one another, and independently.

Location

Mannheim, Germany

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Work style

How I prefer to work

Remote

Morning

Qualities I value in my colleagues

  • Ownership
  • team spirit
  • reliability
  • self-motivation
  • openness

My communication style

  • Casual
  • calm
  • positive
  • articulate
  • thoughtful

My pet peeves

  • Politics
  • unreliability
  • arrogance
  • pessimism
  • poor communication

Fun fact

I'm a big wine-geek and love learning about the regions and their peculiarities of the old and new world.

Timeline

  • CTO & Co-Founder

    Current role

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