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Thomas Duffett

Master's of IT student @ UNSW.

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About me

  • Location:Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • Nationality:New Zealand / Ireland
  • Interests:Rowing, Reading, Competitive Programming
  • Study:University of New South Wales

Education

University of New South Wales

Master's of Information Technology | WAM 89.8•Aug. 2024 - present
  • Maintaining a High Distinction WAM.
  • Notable Courses: Algorithm Design (97%), Advanced C++ (96%), Microprocessors & Interfacing (96%).

University of Auckland

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) | 1st Class Honours•Mar. 2017 - Nov. 2021
  • Awards: Summer Research Scholarship.

Leadership

Coffs Harbour Toastmasters

President•Jul. 2024 - Dec. 2024
  • Governed club operations and chaired executive committee meetings, managing task delegation across team members while mentoring individuals to develop public speaking and leadership capabilities.

Auckland University Boat Club

Men's Captain•Jul. 2021 - Jun. 2022
  • Managed a 30-athlete squad, optimising training regimens, coordinating logistics, and driving team execution to secure multiple national varsity championship titles.

Experience

Casual Academic Tutor

University of New South Wales•Feb. 2026 - Present
  • Tutored a group of 20+ students, with a focus on fostering a supportive learning environment.
  • Facilitated interactive lessons on proof writing, set theory, number theory and graph concepts.
  • Instructed students in software fundamentals, covering C programming alongside sorting and graph/tree traversal algorithms.

Structural Engineer

DBCE, Northrop, Dreamcast•Nov. 2021 - Present
  • Directed a large scale design project, coordinating architects, drafters, and construction workers
  • Acquired in depth project management and conflict resolution experience

Research Assistant

University of Auckland•Dec. 2020 - Sep. 2021
  • Assisted research in determining the drift capacity of reinforced concrete shear walls in an earthquake.

Skills

Python

Python

C++

C++

Javascript

Javascript

AWS

AWS

SQL

SQL

Linux

Docker

React

Git

Git

TailwindCSS

TailwindCSS

Check out some of my work

Toms-structures - 2025

Toms-structures - 2025

A Python library for Australian structural engineers designing masonry structures

Flet - 2024 [archived]

Flet - 2024 [archived]

My first ever web app, a secure login web app hosted on AWS allowing users to query Google’s VertexAI and integrated with Google Maps to provide location based recommendations

Seek 2 - 2024 [archived]

Seek 2 - 2024 [archived]

Used web scraping to gather information from seek.com. Stored results into a database and presented to the user in a modified clone of seek.com for querying and automated frequency analysis

QuantSoc Discord Verification Bot - 2026

QuantSoc Discord Verification Bot - 2026

Currently building a verification bot in a team of 3 to be used by QuantSoc. The tool allows discord users to automatically verify using their university email accounts

If I were to recommend three students from COMP9024 24T3 to be tutors, you would definitely be one of them.

-- Data Structures & Algorithms Professor

That was the most efficient group meeting I've ever had

-- COMP9032 Groupmate

I swear you've got a debugger in your head

-- Also COMP9032 Groupmate

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