Primary Job Title Founder, Chief Creative Officer, and CTO Primary Organization 
Hidden Path Entertainment
Location Bellevue, Washington, United States Regions Greater Seattle Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Michael Austin is the Chief Creative Officer, CTO, and Founder at Hidden Path Entertainment. He attended the University of Utah.
Michael is one of the few experts in the world on the Xbox 360 CPU architecture. In addition, he has eleven years of games and platform development experience, during which he's had the opportunity of working on
nearly every major subsystem from graphics to animation to collision. He has chosen to focus on architecture and low-level optimization.
As part of Xbox's Advanced Technology Group, Michael has worked with dozens of game studios across ten different countries and consulted on numerous top selling games. Michael has worked on several successful console titles including Amped: Snowboarding. He has also been involved with several Xbox titles including Prince of Persia, Counterstrike, and Spiderman 2.
