Henry Cleland
Sr Director - Search & AI Platform Architecture
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHenry Cleland is a Sr Director specializing in Search and AI platform architecture with 14+ years of experience building high-performance, scalable information retrieval, knowledge graph, and ML systems. Based in London, he has led large cross-functional teams at Elsevier to deliver GenAI-powered discovery products like Scopus AI and ScienceDirect AI while owning core search, recommender, and knowledge-graph platforms serving billions of documents. A hands-on tinkerer and former principal engineer, he combines deep technical expertise in Scala, Spark, vector/hybrid search, and data engineering with strong people leadership and SRE-driven operational maturity. He co-developed the RAG-FUSION approach adopted in prominent open-source GenAI tooling and actively experiments with reusable search and discovery capabilities across products. Henry’s background spans startup co-founding to enterprise platform leadership, reflecting a rare blend of researcher-scale system design and pragmatic product delivery.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
~A-Levels General Science with Engineering Drawing, ~A-Levels General Science with Engineering Drawing at Mfantsipim SchoolCertified Desktop and Network Admisitrator Comptia: A+ Network+, Certified Desktop and Network Admisitrator Comptia: A+ Network+ at NIIT - GhanaMsc Advanced Methods in Computer Science (Specialist - Programme), Msc Advanced Methods in Computer Science (Specialist - Programme) at Queen Mary University of LondonBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Ashesi University
Github Skills (12)
java9
scala9
jvm9
playframework9
reactive9
restful9
puppet8
web-framework7
postgresql5
apache1
solr1
lucene1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
deVIAntCoDE/angular-app1
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:38 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months
deVIAntCoDE/SearchEngine
Dec 2011 - Apr 2012
Contributions:25 commits in 4 months
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