Byron Voorbach has spent over a decade in the search domain, providing consultation to companies and aiding in implementing large-scale search systems. As the current Head of Solution Engineering at Weaviate, he collaborates with customers globally to harness the power of semantic search in their operations. A regular conference speaker and active contributor to open-source projects, Byron enjoys tackling complex problems and venturing into diverse domains. His work also includes building projects demonstrating cutting-edge search technologies’ potential and functionality and committing new functionality to Weaviate. 

I have been working with AWS for almost 10 years, and in that time I have found them to be an incredible partner. Always willing to innovate, try new ideas, and engage head on with our team and our customers.“ Born in the Bronx, Travis has mostly been a tri-stater, living in New York City, Parsippany New Jersey, both Rochester and Syracuse New York, Stamford Connecticut, and (the outlier), Sarasota Florida. The Adirondacks are one of his favorite places – he enjoys mountain biking and the outdoors. Having the pivotal experience as an entrepreneur by building a small startup, then going cash flow positive and then getting acquired; Travis points out that ”It taught me the struggles of delivering a service, end to end, conception through customer outcome.” Travis is determined, but recognizes that not everyone is. “Innovative Solutions is not for everyone. Its pace, and intellectual demand requires people to rise to a challenge and overcome it with creativity and perseverance.” He enjoys cloud computing, and sees “a convergence on a container + compute + serverless strategy, with a mix of best in breed third party solutions for cost effective and scalable outcomes.” Travis attended Syracuse University and received his Bachelor of Science in Information Management and Technology. He has two children and two dogs.