Aaron Boranian
Senior Building Simulation Engineer, Director Of Training Services
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Boranian is a Senior Building Simulation Engineer and Director of Training Services with 10 years of experience applying EnergyPlus, OpenStudio, and DesignBuilder to design and optimize high-performance buildings. He has led over 80 workshops and trained more than 750 professionals, translating complex simulation workflows into practical, customized training for industry and government clients. His work spans hands-on simulation development (including back-end contributions to the widely used EnergyPlus codebase) and applied research—having developed retrofit strategies and technology roadmaps for Singapore and novel cooling control strategies at NREL. Based in Denver, he combines academic rigor (M.S. in Building Systems Engineering) with real-world delivery of consulting, software tooling, and parametric modeling. Colleagues rely on him to bridge research, software, and pedagogy, turning simulation improvements into tangible energy savings and compliance-ready solutions. He aims to scale his sustainable design impact from individual buildings to community-level planning.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Civil Engineering, 3.75, Bachelor's Degree, Civil Engineering, 3.75 at Colorado School of MinesMaster's Degree, Building Systems Engineering, 3.65, Master's Degree, Building Systems Engineering, 3.65 at University of Colorado Boulder
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
simulations10
simulation10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
refactoring9
algorithms8
data-structures8
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NREL/EnergyPlus
Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 10 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on improving the EnergyPlus simulation software, specifically within the DXCoils and VariableSpeedCoils modules. Their contributions involved refactoring code to downgrade error messages to warnings, updating the logic for air flow calculations, and ensuring consistency in variable speed coil calculations. Furthermore, the user updated the codebase to incorporate changes from other branches and adjust string input parameters.
renewable-energypower-systemsenergy-consumptionenergy-simulationsimulation
bigladder/vs-code-energyplus-modelkit
Jan 2023 - Jan 2025
VS Code Extension for syntax highlighting, auto-completion of text via snippets, and other features to improve workflows with EnergyPlus & Modelkit files.
Contributions:5 PRs, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
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