Etienne Dilocker

Etienne Dilocker is co-founder and chief technology officer of Weaviate, the company developing an AI-native vector database. A June 2026 investment announcement from Ricoh identifies his current CTO role. His public technical posts discuss the database mechanisms behind retrieval, including inverted indexes, nested-object filtering and preserving query performance as functionality expands. He offers a systems perspective on how organisations can connect unstructured data with search and retrieval applications while retaining control over data structure and execution costs.

Retrieval at Scale: The Data Structures Behind Useful AI

Vector databases and enterprise retrieval