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Liam Wakefield
Monash University IT Student
How's your ?
Currently building hands-on projects to bridge the gap between university theory and industry practice.
Eager to join a graduate program where I can collaborate within a team, continue learning and contribute to meaningful real-world systems.
Projects

Menu-to-Insight: OCR & RAG Pipeline
An AI pipeline that converts restaurant menu images into food recommendations. Uses OCR to process images & RAG with vector search to ground answers in a knowledge base with citations.
PythonFastAPIDockerOllamaQdrantPaddleOCROpenCVSQL

FAQ Chatbot: RAG & Embeddings Pipeline
A 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