Computer Science @ UNSW · WAM 91
Lachlan Dauth
Upcoming trading intern at Jane Street & Jump Trading, and SWE intern at Hudson River Trading. AIO Gold medalist & AMO Bronze medalist.
Projects
Selected technical work
Ramsey Numbers Research
COMP3821 (Extended Algorithm Design and Analysis) research project. Investigated computational bounds on Ramsey numbers and properties of extremal Ramsey graphs. My contributions: computationally disproving the Extension Conjecture and Degree Difference Conjecture via counterexample search on McKay's graph database, and implementing a 3-colour Ramsey graph generator to find lower bounds.
Coding Challenges
A collection of self-contained interactive projects.
Explore
JS Chess Engine
A fully playable chess engine with an AI opponent built from scratch in JavaScript, including move generation, board evaluation, and minimax with alpha-beta pruning.
Play itMegaGem
A faithful Python implementation of the MegaGem auction card game with a zoo of bots — random, heuristic, hypergeometric value estimator, and a hyper-adaptive split-head bidder tuned by a genetic algorithm. Playable in the browser via a vanilla-JS port of the engine.
Play it
Wordle Solver
An optimal Wordle solver using information theory — each guess is chosen to maximise expected information gain, consistently solving the puzzle in under 4 guesses.
Try it8-bit Minecraft Computer
A fully functional 8-bit computer built from redstone logic gates in Minecraft, capable of running custom assembly programs — including Fibonacci and multiplication algorithms.
Resume
Sydney, NSW · lachydauth@gmail.com · LinkedIn
Experience
- Trading Intern — Jane Street Hong Kong Jun – Sep 2026
- Trading Intern — Jump Trading Singapore Dec 2026 – Feb 2027
- Software Developer Intern — Hudson River Trading Singapore May – Aug 2027
Sydney, NSW
- Achieved 1st place in the final trading competition across all participants
Associate Software Engineer · Sydney, NSW
- Worked 90% of full-time hours alongside full-time university studies
- Rotated through both the data science and front-end teams
- Designed and maintained ETL pipelines to load logistics data into the analytics team's database
Web Developer · Perth, WA
- Improved UX and automated business processes for tutors and clients
Mathematics Tutor · Perth, WA
- Tutored years 6–8 students in Mathematics and Python programming
Education
B.Sc. Computer Science · Sydney, NSW
- WAM: 91 (High Distinction, 85+)
Canberra, ACT
- Selected among Australia's top high school mathematicians for a 2-week residential program in proof-based mathematics
High School · Perth, WA
- ATAR: 99.10
- Cross Country Co-Captain (2024), AMC Prize (2022), Olympiad mentorship, Da Vinci Decathlon
Rising Scholars Program · Perth, WA
- Dual enrolment (Years 10–11) · WAM: 95
Awards
Skills
Outside Work
Running