About us

​SeMI Technologies is the company behind open-source brands like the Weaviate vector search engine. We believe in the power of open source to build a strong community, brand, and product. Our team is 100% remote and works from locations all over the world.

Learn how we work on our meta-pages

Meet the team

SeMI Technologies a global remote-first startup, with teams hailing from many different parts of the world, where it is not totally uncommon for someone to work remotely from fun places. At SeMI we believe that the next wave of software infrastructure is AI-first and that a strong open-source community is a basis for creating high-quality software.

laura

Laura Ham

ML Product Researcher

bob

Bob van Luijt

Co-founder & CEO

jessie

Jessie de Groot

Head of people & culture

redo

Redouan El Rhazouani

Core Engineer

Byron

Byron Voorbach

Head of Customer Success & Solution Engineering

Connor

Connor Shorten

Research Scientist

Seb

Sebastian Witalec

Head of Developer Relations

sila

Sila Uygun

Account Manager

stefan

Stefan Bogdan

Solution Engineer

svitlana

Svitlana Smolianova

Head of Design

parker

Parker Duckworth

Core Engineer

etienne

Etienne Dilocker

Co-founder & CTO

andrzej

Andrzej Liszka

Core Engineer

Marcin

Marcin Antas

Core Engineer

DirkKulawiak

Dirk Kulawiak

Core Engineer

JohnTrengrove

John Trengrove

Solution Engineer

PeterSchramm

Peter Schramm

Tech Lead

Our insights -meta

In order to stay true to our open-source spirit as we grow, we want to share our vision with you. That's the purpose of this blog. We think of it as a meta-conversation about our company.

Our mission at SeMI Technologies

We're moving towards our goal of creating a profitable, AI-first, open-source company around...

  • Bob van Luijt
  • Jul 07

On Being a Remote-first Company

SeMI has spent almost its entire life as a company in the pandemic and post-pandemic period...

  • Jessie de Groot
  • Jul 07

Building an open-source brand: Shaping the message by...

Here at SeMI, we are building not only open source products but an open source brand...

  • Svitlana Smolianova
  • Jun 02