Jon Mirtschin
Director at buildingSMART Australasia
Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Mirtschin is a Director and hybrid structural engineer–software developer with 11+ years of experience delivering landmark infrastructure and building projects such as Eureka Tower, Wembley Stadium, and the Melbourne Cricket Ground redevelopment. He founded and leads Geometry Gym, creating tooling and consultancy that bridges design workflows and structural analysis, and serves on the buildingSMART Australasia board championing OpenBIM standards. Trained in both Structural Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Melbourne, Jon combines hands-on engineering on complex arches and bridges with back-end development contributions to high-profile open-source efforts like the Autodesk/revit-ifc project. He specializes in IFC interoperability and Rhino3D automation, turning intricate structural models into practical, interoperable data-driven workflows. Based in Port Fairy, Australia, he’s known for pragmatic software-enabled solutions that make large-scale structural design more connected and repeatable.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
St Hilda's College, University of MelbourneThe University of Melbourne
Github Skills (7)
ifc10
csharp10
revit-api10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
msbuild9
develop9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Autodesk/revit-ifc
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
IFC for Revit and Navisworks (2019+)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 commits, 14 PRs, 14 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jon's commits primarily involve setting up the project structure and modifying project files related to Revit IFC export, import, and UI override functionalities. They made adjustments to project files (.csproj) and included initial setup configurations. The user also fixed curve loop handling within the import process. Finally, they made improvements to the installer and enabled the inclusion of property templates.
ifcrevit
jmirtsch/revit-ifc
Jun 2018 - Mar 2024
IFC for Revit 2019 and beyond
Contributions:22 pushes, 15 branches in 5 years 10 months
ifcbeyondrevitbim
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