Michael Kirschner
Software Engineer at Autodesk
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Kirschner is a software engineer and designer trained in architecture, blending 12 years of experience building design tools, realtime visual engines, and fabrication systems. Based in Cambridge, MA and embedded at Autodesk's Dynamo team, he contributes backend C# work and migration testing to a prominent open-source Revit automation project while translating architectural workflows into robust software. His background spans Unity realtime apps, low-poly procedural generation for mobile, and hands-on CNC and 5-axis machine fabrication—skills that let him bridge code, hardware, and craft. Practical and collaborative, he excels at turning technical discussions into elegant, user-focused interfaces and developer tools that accelerate design and fabrication.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Design and Computation, Master's Degree, Design and Computation at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyM.Arch, Architecture, M.Arch, Architecture at SUNY at Buffalo
English, Italian
Github Skills (10)
amazon-dynamodb10
revit10
dynamodb10
csharp10
revit-api10
aws-dynamodb10
dotnet-core10
automation9
automations9
bim7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DynamoDS/DynamoRevit
Aug 2015 - Dec 2022
Dynamo Libraries for Revit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:43 reviews, 647 commits, 428 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily focused on refactoring and renaming elements within the RevitNodes libraries. These changes involved modifications to C# code, specifically within the RevitNodes libraries for Revit. The user added tests for Dynamo nodes migration, along with migrations for revit zero touch nodes, and other related adjustments in the project configuration. The user also made some code improvements to adapt the classes for the new Dynamo versions.
revitdynamodynamorevitvisualprogrammingbim
mjkkirschner/RevitTestFramework
Mar 2016 - Nov 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 9 months
testingrevitunitunit-testing
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