Michael Byrne
Transport Planning Lead at Arup
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Byrne is a Transport Planning Lead with 10 years’ experience applying engineering rigor and high-performance data analysis to city-scale transport simulation and strategic planning at Arup. He combines hands-on coding in JavaScript, Python, Julia and Rust with workflow automation and tooling development to deliver scalable, reproducible models of urban transport behaviour. His background spans research and technical roles across MUARC and ARRB, giving him a strong foundation in transport safety, data modelling and applied analytics. Based in Melbourne, he bridges civil engineering and computational science—leveraging a dual Engineering and Commerce degree—to turn complex transport questions into practical, policy-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Scotch CollegeBachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Commerce, Civil Engineering/Finance, Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Commerce, Civil Engineering/Finance at Monash University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (38)
aws-sdk10
realtime9
post-processing9
opengl9
aws9
physics9
zig9
simd9
rust8
compiler8
game-development8
cross-platform8
toolchain8
interpreter8
programming-language8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MichaelByrneAU/Ganymede
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
A physically based rendering library written in Rust, based on the principles described in PBRT.
Contributions:7 PRs, 57 pushes, 12 branches in 10 months
pbrtphysically-based-renderingrust
MichaelByrneAU/Daphnis
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:35 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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