Michael Witte
Principal Engineer at GARD Analytics, Inc.
Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Witte is a Principal Engineer and building energy consultant with over three decades of hands-on experience applying and developing whole-building energy modeling software. He focuses on improving architectural and HVAC designs through tools like EnergyPlus, contributing performance fixes and debugging to this widely used open-source simulation engine. At GARD Analytics he combines software development, user support, and training to help clients implement energy efficiency and renewable solutions for commercial and residential buildings. With a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and a long track record at university and industry research groups, he blends deep academic rigor with practical consulting delivery. Notably, his work often targets subtle simulation issues—file-handling and basement module bugs—that materially improve model reliability for practitioners.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering at Valparaiso University
Github Skills (6)
fortran10
debugging9
performance-optimization8
cprogramming-language7
testing7
c-language7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NatLabRockies/EnergyPlus
Apr 2014 - Jan 2023
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:14 releases, 1275 reviews, 3571 commits in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions focused on fixing test failures and improving the performance of the EnergyPlus simulation program. They addressed issues related to empty file paths and added debugging output to pinpoint problems within the basement simulation module. The user's work involved modifying code files related to file system operations, a Fortran subroutine, and the addition of output for debugging issues.
energyplussimulation
energy-plus/EnergyPlus
Feb 2016 - Jan 2022
EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings.
Contributions:3 PRs, 183 pushes, 31 branches in 6 years
energyplussimulation
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