Michael Jurasovic
Founding Engineer at Orkestra
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Jurasovic is a founding engineer and former CTO with 8 years’ experience building cloud-native software and operational tools for the new energy sector. With an electrical engineering background and hands-on expertise in Python, AWS, DevOps, data science and operations research, he bridges power systems modelling and software product delivery. He has practical utility industry experience—modelling 30-year hourly transmission scenarios and low-voltage unbalanced networks—and has taught Python to engineers. An active open-source contributor, he improved core functionality in the pandapower power-system library, surfacing domain-aware features like contribution factors and distributed slack handling. Based in Melbourne, he combines startup leadership with deep technical craft, often translating grid analytics into production-grade tooling.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Power (Honours), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Power (Honours), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Tasmania
Github Skills (9)
pandas10
python10
optimization9
analyse9
netflow9
numpy8
scipy7
networkx7
github6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
e2nIEE/pandapower
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Convenient Power System Modelling and Analysis based on PYPOWER and pandas
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 6 PRs, 26 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the pandapower library. Their work includes adding new features like contribution factors to network elements and modifying the code to pass distributed slack options through to the powerflow calculations. Furthermore, they addressed several code formatting and dependency issues, such as correcting binder links and requiring a specific pandas version. These changes suggest an effort to enhance the usability and functionality of the power system modelling and analysis tools provided by pandapower.
pythonanalysisoptimizationsystem-modellingstate-estimation
jurasofish/load_forecast_thesis
May 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:251 commits in 7 months
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