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Géraud FOKOU PELAP

@graudfokoupelap

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I build enterprise knowledge graphs powering governed AI and product discovery.

France

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead enterprise knowledge engineering, semantic data architecture, and AI-enabled knowledge platforms, working with cross-functional international teams to turn complex domain knowledge into governed, machine-readable data products.

At Inter IKEA Group, I lead knowledge engineering and semantic data architecture for Product Line Management, building governed knowledge graphs across products, materials, parts, requirements and suppliers. I develop ontologies, semantic layers, ingestion pipelines, APIs, GraphRAG and LLM-enabled retrieval that make enterprise knowledge usable for analytics and AI.

I've also built semantic platforms for IKEA Retail Concept Operations and Coworker Content Experience, and led R&D in e-learning at EDUCLEVER and Inria. With a PhD focused on RDF databases and SPARQL query processing, I combine RDF, OWL, SHACL, SPARQL, graph databases, Python and Azure with practical governance, reasoning and data integration.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Lead Knowledge Engineer

Inter IKEA Group

Oct 2025 - Aug 2026 (10 months)

Lead enterprise Knowledge Engineering and semantic data architecture for Product Line Management, designing governed semantic infrastructure that connects and enables analytics and AI-driven knowledge.

Python OWL SPARQL RDFox Knowledge Graphs RAG LLM Azure PLM

Knowledge Engineer

Inter IKEA Group

Sep 2023 - Aug 2025 (1 year 11 months)

Developed an enterprise knowledge graph platform for IKEA Retail Concept Operations, consolidating and enriching product information for intelligent discovery and recommendation use cases.

Python OWL SPARQL SHACL RDFox GraphDb Neo4j Metaphactory Azure Databricks JavaScript JSON XML

Senior Semantic Web R&D Specialist

Numerical Humanities (Huma-Num), MSH Val de Loire, Tours Uni

Mar 2021 - Feb 2022 (11 months)

Designed semantic querying solutions enabling non-technical researchers to explore RDF datasets without directly writing SPARQL. Developed automated techniques for extracting and summarizing knowledge schemas from federated RDF stores.

OWL SHACL SPARQL GraphDb Protégé JavaScript PHP

Senior R&D Engineer (Principal Investigator)

EDUCLEVER

Mar 2019 - Feb 2021 (1 year 11 months)

Led R&D activities integrating semantic knowledge technologies and AI into an e-learning platform. Designed semantic data architecture supporting educational recommendation and personalized learning.

Python Knowledge Graphs Machine Learning Kafka RabbitMQ MQTT Elasticsearch Docker Git Jenkins

R&D Engineer (Principal Investigator)

Innovation Labs EDUMICS, Inria and Educlever

Feb 2017 - Sep 2020 (3 years 7 months)

Led development of an ontology-based educational knowledge platform and associated research activities. Designed and implemented an ontology-driven architecture for e-learning.

Virtuoso GraphDb Neo4j OrientDB Corese Tinkerpop Gremlin Docker Java REST Git

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

ISAE-ENSMA

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science

2013 - 2016

PhD in Computer Science focused on RDF databases and SPARQL query processing, with a thesis on designing a framework for cooperative answering of SPARQL queries in RDF databases.