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Liam Wakefield
Monash University IT Student
How's your ?
Currently building personal projects to explore modern technologies and apply best development practices.
Motivated to join a graduate program where I can collaborate within a team and bridge the gap between university theory and real-world industry experience.
Projects

Menu-to-Insight: OCR & RAG Pipeline
A modular AI pipeline that converts restaurant menu images into structured menu items and grounded dietary recommendations using OCR, vector search, and a local LLM.
PythonFastAPIDockerOllamaQdrantPaddleOCROpenCVSQL

FAQ Chatbot: RAG & Embeddings Pipeline
A retrieval-based chatbot that answers questions using a local document knowledge base. It retrieves relevant document chunks from a vector store and uses a local LLM to generate reliable, citation-backed answers that minimise AI hallucinations.
PythonFastAPIDockerChromaDBOllamaMarkdownRAGQwen2.5 0.5B