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THE FORMAL VERSION

Garfield Coke

Applied AI Architect

Enterprise LLM Solutions · Search & Relevance

London, United Kingdomlinkedin.com/in/garfieldcoke

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Applied AI Architect with 15+ years designing and delivering enterprise search, cloud, and AI solutions for global customers. Combines deep expertise in RAG, semantic search, relevance engineering, and enterprise integration with customer-facing architecture and technical leadership. Hands-on with the Claude API, Python, Java, Solr, Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS; experienced translating complex requirements into scalable solutions, mentoring engineers, and creating repeatable implementation standards.

CORE EXPERTISE

What I reach for most.

Applied AI

  • Claude API
  • LLM Solution Architecture
  • RAG
  • Semantic Search
  • Retrieval Evaluation
  • Relevance Engineering

Enterprise Architecture

  • Cloud-Native Systems
  • Enterprise Integration
  • Microservices
  • Kubernetes
  • GCP
  • AWS

Engineering

  • Python
  • Java
  • Solr
  • Spring
  • CI/CD
  • Helm

Customer Leadership

  • Technical Discovery
  • Solution Workshops
  • Executive Briefings
  • Delivery Roadmaps
  • Mentoring

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fifteen years, one recurring theme.

Principal Architect

Lucidworks

Jan 2020 — Present

  • Principal Architect · Feb 2025 — Present
  • Senior Search Consultant II · Feb 2023 — Feb 2025
  • Senior Search Consultant · Jan 2020 — Feb 2023
  • Led architecture for 20+ enterprise search engagements—including four AI and semantic-search programmes—across EMEA and North America, guiding customers from discovery and solution design through production deployment.
  • Designed a semantic-boosting framework that achieved a 10% relevance lift in benchmark testing against an enterprise client's incumbent search platform.
  • Built a semantic-search retrieval evaluation framework, enabling teams to compare approaches consistently and make repeatable release decisions.
  • Led technical workshops and executive briefings with customer engineering leaders and senior stakeholders, translating business objectives into phased technical roadmaps and deployment plans.
  • Designed scalable RAG and machine-learning search architectures and mentored engineers on repeatable AI implementation standards.

Selected technologiesGenerative AI · LLMs · RAG · Semantic Search · Python · Solr · Kubernetes · GCP · AWS

Senior Endeca Consultant

Cirrus10

Mar 2017 — Jan 2020

  • Senior Endeca Consultant · Jun 2018 — Jan 2020
  • Endeca Consultant · Mar 2017 — Jun 2018
  • Led enterprise eCommerce search migrations and optimisation programmes, shaping complex data-ingestion and guided-navigation architectures.
  • Advised UK enterprise clients on search implementation and platform improvement across Java-based commerce environments.

Selected technologiesOracle Endeca · Solr · Java · Jenkins · DevOps

Senior Programmer Analyst

Sagicor Group Jamaica

Jan 2016 — Feb 2017

  • Enhanced core insurance systems and client-data processing in a regulated financial-services environment.
  • Mentored junior engineers in Java enterprise standards and microservices architecture.

Selected technologiesJava · Spring Framework · Oracle Database · Web Services

Co-founder & Solutions Architect

Dizari

2015 — 2023

  • Co-founded and architected mobile applications and SaaS products for public- and private-sector organisations in Jamaica.
  • Designed cloud-native systems spanning identity, data, mobile delivery, and automated deployment.

Selected technologiesSpring · Keycloak · PostgreSQL · Flutter · AWS · GCP · Kubernetes · CI/CD · Firebase

Technical Consultant

RealDecoy

Jun 2011 — Jan 2016

  • Technical Consultant · Jan 2013 — Jan 2016
  • Web Application Developer · Jun 2011 — Jan 2013
  • Led implementation and upgrades of enterprise search platforms, providing technical leadership for professional-services engagements across international markets.
  • Developed full-stack eCommerce features and internal tools with an emphasis on search integration and code quality.

Selected technologiesEndeca · ATG · Solr · Java · Spring MVC · Sitecore · JavaScript · SQL

SELECTED PRODUCTS & VENTURES

The things I own end to end.

Garage Rates

Built a UK garage-pricing platform with a live AI diagnostic that translates drivers' symptom descriptions into likely causes, urgency, and indicative repair costs. Currently developing an agentic estimate experience to guide users toward more contextual repair estimates.

Next.jsTypeScriptPythonFastAPIGoogle Vertex AI (Gemini)SupabaseDocker

Creatiiv Kids

Built and shipped an AI-powered creative app for children on iOS and Android, using the Google Gemini API for server-side image generation with usage controls, subscriptions, product analytics, and production monitoring. Used Claude Code and Google Antigravity throughout the engineering workflow.

React NativeTypeScriptGoogle Gemini APISupabase Edge FunctionsClaude CodeGoogle AntigravityRevenueCat

Find a Launderette

Built and operate a programmatically generated UK directory producing approximately 12.3K monthly organic Google clicks and 1.7K Bing clicks. Use the Claude API for data-enrichment workflows and Claude Code as part of the development harness.

Claude APIClaude CodeNext.jsTypeScriptNetlifySupabaseProgrammatic Data Pipelines

EDUCATION

BSc, Computing and Information Technology

University of Technology · First Class Honours

SELECTED CERTIFICATIONS

Oracle Certified Associate, Java 8 Programmer

Oracle · 2022

Oracle Endeca Commerce 3.1 Implementation Developer

Oracle · 2013

Oracle Commerce 11 Guided Search Implementation Essentials

Oracle · 2015

SAY HELLO

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