Colin Duffy
Registered Psychiatric Nurse Division One. Grade 3 4. Year 5
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Duffy is an experienced Registered Psychiatric Nurse with over 11 years in acute and forensic mental health settings, currently serving as a Grade 3/4 clinician at Mercy Health Australia. He combines frontline crisis assessment and psychiatric triage expertise with a background in clinical education and program management, having designed and delivered psychoeducation for staff and patients. Colin’s academic foundation includes a Graduate Certificate in Mental Health Nursing from RMIT and a Bachelor of Nursing, and he has lectured nursing students, demonstrating a commitment to workforce development. Beyond clinical practice, he brings unexpected technical depth as an embedded systems contributor on a widely used Arduino/Teensy cores project, applying low-level firmware skills to hardware power management and clock configurations. This blend of hands-on clinical leadership, teaching experience, and practical engineering curiosity makes him adept at solving complex, multidisciplinary problems in healthcare. Based in Melbourne, he is known for steady crisis management and a persistent, forward-moving approach to professional growth.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse, Bachelor's Degree, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse at Australian Catholic University Aquinas Campus BallaratGraduate Certificate in Mental Health Nursing - Post Graduate, Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing, Graduate Certificate in Mental Health Nursing - Post Graduate, Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing at RMIT University
Github Skills (16)
c1710
low-level10
embedded10
clock10
driver10
c1110
microcontroller10
sys10
abstraction-layer10
hal10
kinetis9
teensy9
iot8
arm8
architecture8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
PaulStoffregen/cores
Jun 2016 - Apr 2019
Teensy Core Libraries for Arduino
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 17 PRs, 9 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily focused on low-level hardware interactions, modifying register definitions and configurations for specific microcontrollers. Their contributions involved updating and defining registers for peripherals like the Low-power Wake-up Unit (LLWU) and the SNVS module, likely for power management and real-time clock functionality. The user also adjusted clock divider settings for various CPU frequencies, demonstrating an understanding of clock configuration in embedded systems. These changes indicate expertise in firmware development and board support package (BSP) creation.
arduino-librarycore-librariesteensyarduino
duff2013/Snooze
Jun 2016 - Oct 2020
Teensy Low Power Library
Contributions:11 releases, 33 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 4 months
teensypowerlow-powerarduinolowpower
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