Jan
van der Vegt

Jan van der Vegt is a Machine Learning Engineer at Exa, where he builds the embedding pipelines that feed Exa's web-scale search databases. Jan started in the aviation industry, working on ML models on large volumes of data. After his MLOps startup Cubonacci was acquired by Databricks, he worked on the Workflows product followed by coding agents, with a focus on search. He now works on Exa's neural search engine, which uses Lance as the table format for the Exa databases.