Hey @saket welcome to these parts & good luck in your new role!
I’d really love to see some Speckle case studies on building performance simulations in our Showcase - Speckle Community section if you ever get to work on something that can be shared 
And great photos, that sounds like a really interesting hobby!
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Hi to everyone!
My name is Alvise.
I am an architect and I have previously worked in some Italian engineering companies and in the airport sector, with the role of Bim Manager. I recently moved to the Bim consulting sector. I have always been interested in data management, standardization and everything that can facilitate the information flows applaied to the BIM methodology. Reason why I discovered Speckle.
I am very curious to explore the potential offered by this platform, trusting that it can provide very valuable tools for my work and the work of my colleagues.
In my spare time I love to play basketball and volleyball.
See you!
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Welcome Alvise 
! Keen to see how it goes with Speckle, keep us posted!
Hi everybody!
My name is Daan and I am currently working on my Bachelor Thesis at the Hogeschool (University) of Amsterdam.
My thesis is about the storage and management of building requirements and design principles in a uniform manner. This is needed to enable projectmembers to automate the verification and validation process through Speckle and Dynamo.
I am a selftaught Dynamo programmer and hope to become as knowledgeable in Speckle as in Dynamo!
I also hope to learn a, lot through the use of Speckle, about thinking different in a project setting, for example saving and exporting objects instead of models.
I can’t wait to get started with Speckle and i’ll see you guys around on the forum! 
Kind Regards,
Daan
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Welcome @DaanSchlosser!!
Your thesis sounds like a very much needed thing in our industry! We’d love to hear more about it once you present it! And also help you along the way with anything Speckle related
Happy Speckle hacking!
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Hello everyone,
my name is Arlind Dervishaj. I have studied architecture in Italy. Currently I am working in Helsinki with an architecture company as Architect with a particular focus on Computational Design, Digital Design/BIM technology and Sustainability analysis/proposals for projects.
In Finland, ArchiCAD is used by most firms and Revit is also being used. I am new to Speckle and eager to try instead of exchanging files between software. I can see a great benefit of using Speckle within teams and with external teams/consultants in projects, where everyone has their own tool of choice.
Cheers,
Arlind
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Hi @Arlind-arch, and belated welcome! Greetings from a very rainy London. Hopefully we’ll get to that Archicad connector soon (if you know anyone with C++ & Archicad plugin development experience, do send them our way!). It’s been requested quite a bit recently, and it would be a valuable addition to the Speckle ecosystem.
Any questions you’ll have around Speckle, you’re in the right spot - just ask out! (PS: bug reports welcome too - if anything doesn’t work as expected, let us know too!)
Hi all,
I’ve been working with Speckle for a few years now, and realized I have never introduced myself on the forum! I lead Arup’s work with Speckle, deploying and supporting Speckle servers for our teams, contributing code to the core repos and developing connectors.
I started programming as a kid on this beauty:
I learned to script in Logo and turtle graphics, and I got an introduction to visual programming with Chipwits.
For the first bit of my career I worked as a structural engineer. I got into Grasshopper working on the George C King Bridge in 2010 and am now leading software development teams full-time in Arup’s Digital Development team.
Speckle is exciting because it meets a need that design teams have today (interoperability) in a way that sets them up for better ways of working (collaborative, automated workflows in the cloud)!
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Heya @daviddekoning, uhm… welcome (although you’ve been around these parts for quite a while, but better a late intro than no intro!).
Love that mac. We have a one from the same age in our family home’s basement, albeit “portable” - by the defintions of the time - and i wasn’t allowed to play with it IIRC… i’ll need to ask @mircea.stefanescu for a pic when he has the time.
Happy Speckle’s exciting - let’s keep it up 
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Hello Dimitrie,
Thank you for your reply. Yes, I´ll keep in mind to connect you at Speckle if I get to know ArchiCAd developers.
Classification systems and BIM tools like Archicad came early in the Nordics. There is a large pool of Graphisoft software users in all these countries but most interesting developments are happening for Revit and Rhino now.
It is a big untapped potential, if Graphisoft itself or others leave it behind and it´s users. Unfortunately it is not that easy for people to switch using new software. Also Blender has received some nice BIM and computational design developments.
Have a good day,
Arlind
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Hello folks,
My name is Luke (he/him). I am a US-based, self-taught coder who has been lucky enough to transition fully into software engineering after several years as a consulting structural engineer.
My early career made me realize that engineering is often about about data management as much as it is about problem solving. That prompted me to learn VBA for Excel, and later C# to build .NET plugins and apps. With each new line of code typed, the hunger grew to where I knew I wanted to do it full-time. And so I’ve spent the last few years professional engaged with the automated design of light-framed structures (wood, cold-formed steel), and more recently, steel connection design for hot-rolled steel.
I believe Speckle has a unique opportunity to unify many concerns about AEC model data. Connectors are sorely needed to accommodate design, analysis, and visualization workflows in a consistent manner. A time is coming where FOSS software will supplant much of the “premium” services offered by vendors, so that end users can pick and choose their preferred components across a broader ecosystem. So I’d like to contribute to that transition.
Current interests include open-source game engines (Godot, bevy), computational geometry, automation, and AR/VR. I’m a gamer nerd with a preference for tabletop RPGs. When I’m not at my PC, I enjoy hiking, volleyball, slacklining, and basking in the Seattle summer weather.
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Welcome to the forum @LukeMinnich ! Yet another self taught programmer
It’s encouraging to hear your support for Speckle, we hope you’ll be able to share with us some of the cool things you’re doing with it
PS
We hope to add better support for structural software and data soon!
Hello Speckle Community,
I’m Sven, I leave in Switzerland, I happen to do some stuff using Dynamo, C3D, Revit and a bit of Rhino and GH recently.
I’m mostly working on civil and structure like a new metro line or other tunneling and railway projects.
Hope I’ll learn new stuff and help people later on in the community.
Cheers,
Sven
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Hi,
Amadeu here, working from Paris.
Had the chance to remote work last year in home country, Portugal, for almost 8 months, pandemic shown me that we can work differently!
I’m an architect, I’m trying to structure a Design Technology department in my office (quite struggling to do it, it a long risk journey to change people’s habits…)
Tried Flux.io a couple of years ago, and I’m really interested in the Speckle potential! Hope to see all the good stuff we can do with this tool!
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Hi there !
I’m Reynold and I’m a new member of the Speckle Team based in Toronto. Recently graduated in Engineering Science (Structural Engineering) from the University of Toronto. I interned at Arup for a year on the structures team fiddling around with Speckle and used it in workflows, and now I’m ready to commit to Speckle as a software engineer.
I look forward to meeting this awesome community and here’s an obligational picture of my dog.
If I’m not working, I’m probably playing a game of mahjong (Some say it’s gambling ~ although I don’t believe mahjong is a gambling game).
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Hi! I’m Kateryna, urban planner 
joining Speckle team!
I got into programming and software development from Grasshopper (unsurprisingly), and were slowly expanding the skills to random applications, from Tinder auto-swiping to video-processing app using GANs, to web-applications on urban design collaboration. My previous work involved development of integrated parametric urban design framework for interdisciplinary collaborators, including supporting the team in developing some of DecodingSpaces components (GH plugin for urban design layouts).
In normal times I would spend most of my free time on social dancing (salsa, etc:), cycling or coding, but in the lockdown I found other exciting things to do, like make a Covid mask for my T-rex costume, building my home-based photo studio and make technical photo tutorials 
P.S. @Reynold_Chan it’s a very cute Shih Tzu 
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Hello Everyone!
My name is Chloe. I’m an architect and software developer based in Canada.
I’ve worked a few years in the architecture field to gain some work experience and get my license, and later on, I decided to switch gear to computer science because there is no money and no life in architecture, yeah, it’s hard to be super busy and still very poor, what an epic profession 
My personal research interests are web dev, procedural generation, metaverse. Here is a recent article: Architecting the Metaverse Looking forward to your feedback!
Kudos to all the folks especially parents that are WFH, stay healthy and stay positive!
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Hi @chloesun, and welcome to these parts of the interwebs. Happy you’re off the quasi dead speckle slack!
Next time I’ll get asked whether architecture is a nice thing to do, can I quote this?
Regarding our value add in the metaverse (nice article!), what if - get this - architects will not transcend their epistemological boundaries and simply translate into being the gold farmers and fishing zombies that every MMORPG seems to spawn? It would be like “hey, check this LVL20 Villa Savoye Charamander NFT. But… we’re still super busy and still very poor - totally epic tho” 
In a more serious note, some unsolicited literature recommendations: the latest metaversian narrative I’ve enjoyed reading is Reamde - Wikipedia, and the follow up “Doge, or Fall in Hell”(?) is well worth the read too!
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