Expertise
Trey Grainger is lead author of the AI-Powered Search book (Manning 2024) and the Founder of Searchkernel, a software consultancy building the next generation of AI-powered search. He previously served as CTO of Presearch, a decentralized web search engine, and as Chief Algorithms Officer and SVP of Engineering at Lucidworks, an AI-powered search company whose search technology powers hundreds of the world’s leading organizations. He is also co-author of Solr in Action. Trey has 17 years of experience in search and data science, including significant work developing semantic search, personalization and recommendation systems, and building self-learning search platforms leveraging content and behavior-based reflected intelligence. This work resulted in the publication of dozens of research papers, journal articles, conference presentations, and books focused on intelligent search systems.
At OpenSource Connections, Trey helps our clients to deliver the benefits of AI-powered search – offering cutting-edge strategic advice, training and expert consulting on everything from data preparation, to selecting and hosting machine learning and Large Language models, to enhanced search, all the way to building complete Generative AI solutions.