Austin Corotan

Austin Corotan has held several positions in the engineering and software development fields since 2016. In 2016, they worked as a GIS Data Analyst and Software Development Intern for the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and as a Water Quality and Hydrologic Research Intern for the Natural Energy Lab of Hawaii Authority (NELHA). At NOAA, they collaborated with scientists on a project funded by the Akamai Workforce Initiative and aggregated global water quality data using Java. At NELHA, they worked on mapping runoff and local pollution for the state of Hawaii and collected water quality samples in transects along the West Hawaii coastline.

In 2017, Corotan worked as a Software Engineer for Acculis (Techstars '18) and as a Graduate Research Assistant (Robotics, Machine Learning & Augmented Reality) and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Western Washington University. At Acculis, they developed a plugin for Autodesk Navisworks using C#/. NET and the Navisworks . NET API. At Western Washington University, they developed an Android application for autonomous robotic navigation using Google\u2019s ARcore and designed and implemented a deep residual neural network architecture to emulate global precipitation outputs of complex earth system models.

Since 2019, Corotan has been working as the Director of Engineering and Lead Software Engineer at Integrated Projects. In their role as Director of Engineering, they are responsible for managing server-side infrastructure, ensuring secure and scalable pipelines and integrations, leading efforts in organizing, optimizing and extracting information from BIM data, and building software to improve current project workflows and internal automations. As Lead Software Engineer, they developed a serverless API using AWS, enabling Revit and Matterport integrations, and created a plugin for Autodesk Revit using C#/. NET and the Revit . NET API.

Austin Corotan received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Geophysics/Computer Science from Western Washington University in 2016, a Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science from the same institution in 2018, and a Minor in Astronomy from the same institution in 2016.