Thomas Fieguth

C++ · Python · ROS2 · Qt · Sensor Fusion · CAD · Onshape / FeatureScript · CNC Machining · Welding · Fabrication

  • Software Engineer at Werkr Tractors, building guidance for an autonomous electric tractor
  • Winner of the N.S. Robertson Foundation Capstone Design Award
  • BASc Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2026 · Graduated with Dean's Honours

Featured Projects

  • Self-Driving Tractor: Autonomous cost-efficient tractor designed specifically for small market garden farmers
  • Depth-Sensing Carving Guide: Interactive training system to teach woodcarving using depth-sensing and live projection directly onto the stock material
  • Farm Topography Map: Wall-mounted relief map of my family's farm, cut from nine wood species using my own Onshape FeatureScript tool
  • Wooden Globe: Spinning globe made from 2 different types of wood, 60 triangles, and 1 CNC.
  • Catan River Optimizer: Maximizing unique board configurations with tiles with rivers. Additionally doing terrain generation
  • Stormbreaker Axe: Replica of Thor's Stormbreaker axe from Marvel

About Me

I'm a Systems Design Engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo. My five co-op terms took me through a machine shop, an engineering consultancy and a robotics startup, so I'm at home moving between CAD, the shop floor and code.

I work by building something quickly, testing it on real hardware, and iterating. The tractor's position estimate went through five rounds of tuning, each driven by logged field data, and my capstone rig went through three prototypes and five camera-holder designs, each fixing what testing exposed in the one before.

Next, I want to keep owning systems end to end, from CAD to field test, in R&D and prototyping work that mixes hardware and software and gets me into the lab, shop or field.