Miguel “Mike” Arellano
Deputy District Engineer
City of Austin, TX
In 1996, I started working for TxDOT as a contract employee through the Center for Transportation
Research (CTR) of the University of Texas at Austin. I graduated in 1997 from The University of
Texas at Austin with B.S Civil Engineering. I immediately joined TxDOT in the Construction Division
Materials and Pavement Section of TxDOT as a transportation engineer with a specialty in
geotechnical engineer and construction engineering. I served on numerous TxDOT & national
research/ technical workshops on materials, pavement and construction. I joined the Austin District
in 2006 to serve as the District Materials and Pavement Engineer. In 2014, I became the District
Maintenance Engineer for the Austin District in charge of asset management and planning. In 2016, I
became the Director of Maintenance for the Austin District. I was responsible for all maintenance
operations for the 11 counties of the Austin area. In 2018, I was reclassified to become the Director of
Operations for the Austin District, which combined maintenance and traffic operations. In 2019, I
assumed my current role as Deputy District Engineer assisting with oversight of all deparments of the
Austin District, including administration, safety, design & planning, construction and operations. I am
currently leading the emerging technology implementation as a pilot district for TxDOT.