After graduating from Kincoppal Rose Bay in 2017, Kyra completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechatronics and a Bachelor of Arts (History) with a minor in Psychology at UNSW. Kyra’s academic journey has been a blend of Arts and STEM, providing her with a unique perspective in her field.
Whilst at UNSW, Kyra was the Executive President of the UNSW Mechatronics Society where she managed operations and an executive team for the university’s Engineering School Student Society. This involved recruiting a team of directors and subcommittee to facilitate large-scale events, workshops and projects as well as establishing and maintaining faculty, industry and student society links for collaboration. Kyra was also the President of the UNSW French Society and President of the Musical Theatre Society. She also served as a UNSW Engineering Student Ambassador for four years where she guided aspiring engineers, sharing her knowledge and experiences to help them navigate their academic journeys.
As Project Manager of her final year Mechatronic Engineering thesis, Kyra and her team built a prototype machine to automate the installation and deployment of Klemmfix for Transport for NSW. Congratulations to Kyra and her team who were recently awarded the Best Undergraduate Final Year Thesis Award 2023 from UNSW‘s School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering !
Now, in her professional role as a Graduate Software Engineer at Quantium, Kyra applies her technical skills to solve complex problems in software development in the Cloud Platform space.
With a strong interest in robotics and a vision for the future, and a passion for innovative technologies, mechanics, and the intersection of software with hardware, Kyra plans to design and build machines and robots that automate processes, challenging and extending the limits of human capabilities. Kyra ultimately dreams to be working in the Space industry someday. In her own words, Kyra says
“I want to do something that no one has done ever before. As someone who is working in engineering, I am already at the frontier of development, the newest ideas and the latest creations. I want to work in the space industry and just be really in the frontier of innovation. Discovering new things and knowing that what I am learning and discovering is something that people haven’t done before.”
Kyra has joined the KRB Connect mentoring program and believes her diverse skill set in Arts and STEM enables her to provide a broad range of insight and perspective in these two different worlds. Kyra has served as a UNSW Engineering Student Ambassador for four years where she guided aspiring engineers sharing her knowledge and experiences to help them navigate their academic journeys.