The whole thing, in order.

Pre-Sales AI Security Consultant

Cybersecurity consultancy · Remote

Designed a Shadow AI exposure assessment methodology, and built the research and outreach pipeline that feeds it. Consulting on AI governance and on GDPR, EU AI Act and NIS2 compliance for organisations in regulated industries.

Freelance AI Consultant

Independent · Paris, Remote

I install Claude inside small businesses: one folder on the client's own machine that their AI reads and writes, built around how the business actually runs. Five completed engagements, ranging from a company two weeks old to one carrying years of files and no system that had ever stuck.

AI Consultant

Marketing agency · Remote

Built a retrieval-augmented content system and the application that runs it, then measured whether the retrieval actually worked. Written up as a master's internship report, including a result I had to retract.

Teaching Assistant

Charles University, Prague · Prague, Czechia

Ran lab sessions and marked coursework for undergraduate computer science. Explaining the same idea to twenty people who each misunderstood it differently is the closest thing to consulting practice I have had.

MSc AI & Data Science

Université Paris-Saclay · Paris, France

Machine learning, deep learning, information theory, information retrieval and data engineering, taught in English. M1 completed June 2026 with an overall mark of 15.097/20; M2 runs to June 2027.

BSc Computer Science with specialisation in Artificial Intelligence (First-Class Honours)

Charles University, Prague · Prague, Czechia

Where I learned to code, and where I got into machine learning in 2022, a few months before ChatGPT came out. Algorithms, software engineering and mathematical logic, with the artificial intelligence specialisation on top. I'd done a year of business science before this and preferred this by a distance. I also spent an academic year running the weekly lab sessions for an undergraduate course here, about twenty students a time, and it was the first time I'd had to explain any of this to people who didn't already get it. The thesis, on procedural terrain generation, became the IEEE paper below. I won two public-speaking competitions while I was there.

Business Science

University of Cape Town · Cape Town, South Africa

A year of business science (statistics, economics and finance) before moving to Prague for computer science. It's why the commercial side of this work isn't something I had to learn later.

Constraint-Aware Terrain Completion from Sparse Fixed Regions for Game Heightmaps

Petr Šimůnek, Oliver Wakeford

IEEE Conference on Games 2026 (CoG), Madrid

Accepted for oral presentation, full paper

Second author. I built the terrain tool and proposed the constraint-propagation idea in my BSc thesis; my supervisor extended it into the paper, ran the experiments and led the writing. Reviewers noted the evaluation is limited to a single authored benchmark.

Procedural Terrain Generation with Fixed Points

Oliver Wakeford

BSc thesis, Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics

Defended 5 September 2025

Does retrieval make generated copy sound like the client?

Oliver Wakeford

Master's internship report, ACL format

Submitted July 2026. Not peer-reviewed, and not published

An internship deliverable assessed by the university, not a publication. The corpus belongs to a client and can't be shared.