Hi Everyone, I feel I am a bit late to join the party. I am a structural engineer turned architect turned technologist + AEC Tech Content creator covering AI, Software Development and recently blockchain and neuroscience applications in architecture (Shameless plug of my YT channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUvTDoPj6v7uGQy4J8oW4Yw) .
I did my Bachelors in Civil Engineering at IIT Bombay, India, worked as a Structural Engineer at Buro Happold Engg. which confirmed my desire and passion towards architecture. I contributed to shear wall optimization tool at local office and got my first exposure to Grasshopper (2018). Came to US for 3 year M.Arch course.
Was about to dropout after my 2nd year(2020). Luckily, I was exposed to an AI for Architecture workshop which me realize the amazing future possibilities with it. I went “All In” and sucked all free online courses needed to obtain decent level knowledge of AI in a year. Did some cool AEC tech hackathons.
For some reason, my DNA is always curious to study other disciplines and find cross disciplinary tech integrations. Last 3 months, I got into Blockchain for AEC research and recently Neuroscience applications. I am prototyping some cool Brain-Computer Interface. (You never know, you might see a contribution from me coming of doing a speckle commit just with a thought :P)
I just graduated from University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and started working as Digital Innovation Technologist at Perkins & Will. Very excited to develop valuable, useful and impactful tools for the industry.
I am mountain biker. I did all the Top 3 world’s highest motorable road. There were 2 almost near-death experiences but those trips had life changing experiences.
I noticed this community has awesome AEC Techies. I love interviewing folks, sharing their journey and providing a platform to teach software development on my show so it helps young AEC folks interested in tech like me to get insights and get inspired. If you would like to share your projects/journey, feel free to connect me on LinkedIn. I would be more than happy to host you on my show. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayurmistry7/
Hey everyone, I’m Dave a self taught computational designer based in London.
Got the computational design bug playing around with Grasshopper, Dynamo Python to automate tasks on structural projects.
Currently taking time off and delving into the Revit API, web development and other things as I want to do computational design full time in the future. There is so much cool stuff happening in the industry at the moment and I want to be a part of it.
Looking forward to seeing what Speckle can do, and being involved in this great community.
In my spare time I’m in the park with my kids, building Lego or out for a run.
I’m Victor, now typing from Copenhagen. I was educated as a civil engineer, then jumped on a masters as an architectural engineer.
These days I type code and plug wires for architects in Copenhagen. I know for-loops in a couple of languages and sometimes I marathon too many online courses.
Discovered Speckle 2 years ago and have been playing around since. I am now doing some research on how to use cloud environments to run jobs, while commiting/fetching from Speckle.
On a more personal note, I make an effort to enjoy 2 summers per year, always on the look for cheap flight tickets to my home in Brazil.
Glad to have you guys as part of the community - it’s super nice to see people joining in from all over the world. Architecture & engineering can be a difficult professions to stay in, but kudos to the computational bug for keeping us around!
My name is Nikola. Living and working in Croatia. I’m hopping between working as Structural engineer and BIM Manager. Currently working as BIM Manager in multi-discipline company with focus on design and fabrication of modular data centers.
In free time I like to spend my food money for board games that I know I’ll never play Also when I can I try to spend as much time in nature.
Heard about Speckle few years ago at BILT and since then I’m following it’s progress. Thank you all for great effort, Speckle is evolving and growing fast. Trying to test Speckle for collaborative purposes between multiple disciplines/software in initial phases of design, when a lot of information is being shared quickly and layouts are changing by hour (especially problematic for structural designs/calculations).
Nice to meet you all and excited to talk more to everyone,
Hi there,
I gave speckle a spin almost two years back, I came back to it today! Damned! What a journey! Good job @SpeckleTeam
Architect (trained in France, US, Canada)
BIM Specialist working for BIM One on the consulting side
Revit/Dynamo/VSCode are my daily driver
Coding mostly in python and web apps languages (self taught)
More and more interested in web apps dev
Bread making @teocomi (and all thinks cooking related)
I am really interested by the possibilities of Revit Dash
and my first questions will be around this subject: grabbing specific data (warnings, parameters, shared parameters walues, link data as well)
Finally introducing myself. I joined the forum some months back as I was developing something for my previous employer which would do some of the basic carbon accounting and Revit interoperability that Speckle Carbon would also do. I guess my question when I started was more to do with principles of sustainability consulting at the time.
Fast forward a few months and I’ve gone and joined the Arup Sustainability Consulting team. With my background in structural engineering, and interest in and understanding of materials, I am keen to eventually do a little bit of bridging between the sustainability consulting team and Speckle’s Carbon function.
More to the point, I’ll be keeping an eye on this and some similar forums for developments in this area, as it’s so new and dependent on digital solutions like this to take us forward leaps and bounds.
Hi everyone,
My name is Kristjan;
I’m a structural engineer but transitioning to digital;
I was born and grew up in Denmark but have lived in various European countries the past many years;
Was pretty sad “the speckle guys” left Arup, so it took me until now to forgive you Fernando (@teocomi) and Dimitrie, but finally got an account, made a pull request and am now extremely dedicated to be forum member of the month!
Hi @mike.kovacs & @kpne! Happy to have you both onboard Kristjan, sorry we left abruptly - the plan was all along to stay friends and work together on OSS - so here we are!
(I’ve published this early so we can show it to you, i suspect the post might be still a bit WIP; there’s going to be a session at the Connect! conference about these apps!)
Hi
The AEC team at Epic told me about this community - seems they like what you are building.
I am a geek builder focused on mass timber digital fabrication at our small factory in Oregon. Oregon produces more lumber than any other state and housing demand on the US West Coast has gone crazy exacerbating the shortage of builders and especially AEC people who want to develop and use new software and processes to design, fabricate and build. We have CNC machines (Hundegger, Krüsi, Shopsabre) and a kuka robot in our factory and are plenty busy but still hope those on the architecture side grow more interested in digital fabrication and machine-readable data. Bits-to-atoms and all that Industry 4.0 stuff.
We are way into open innovation and started the AEC hackathons back in 2013. Www.hackaec.com
In Finland right now prowling around for geek timber people and headed to Copenhagen for our 46th AEChackathon on October 29th-31st.
Meet me there if you are in the neighborhood.hope to see more speckle development focused on mass timber .
Gotta run, going mushroom hunting in the Finnish Forests - it’s a very good year for trumpet mushrooms.
Still wondering why a similar community focused on mass timber still doesn’t exist…so much to build, so little time.
Hey Greg, welcome to our community and thanks for sharing your cool work!
I was at the Berlin hackathon you guys hosted, and it was a lot of fun, looking forward to future ones
Hey everyone, I’m a long time listener, first time caller.
Architect and furniture with Alsop & Störmer by “birth”, transitioned to masterplan delivery (Kings Cross, Brent Cross, London 2012 amongst others) transitioned to Data Wrangler for design and also practice management information while at Allies and Morrison. First forays into AECO Tech was beta-testing Bentley GenerativeComponents for Microstation, not for whizz-bang Foster roof structures, but for data extraction from pre-BIM CAD. ProtoBIM?? Later beta-testing of ExplicitHistory for Rhino, somewhat generative but again, lots of analytics.
There’s been a lot of Excel over the last 20 years and you really shouldn’t give it such a hard time. (You know who you are) but my real passions now are developing and federating tools orchestrated with PubSub, RPC/REST et al. which extract entire haystacks of data and then looking for the needles.
Abandoning London with my family in uk-lockdown-1, I’m now 100% remote in the top-left corner of England, surrounded by cows, sheep, lakes and mountains. It is my own little Rutten-esque adventure.
Hey @jonathon, thank you for calling We’re stoked to have you around. I remember getting annoyed at ExplicitHistory because RhinoScript felt like more control, but then i discovered the c# node (or it was added?) - and @luis (then at IaaC) was challenging me to use it The good times…
Love the stack. And the scenery you’re describing.
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I’ve been reading the Speckle forum a little bit for a while, but now that I’m going to make my first post, I figured I’d have to introduce myself first
Anyway, I’m Knut from Norway, but I did my Bachelor in the US and my Master at TU Delft in Netherlands from where I graduated as a Structural Engineer almost 2 years ago. Since then I’ve been working at Royal HaskoningDHV like several other community members here
At RHDHV I’m programming full-time, so I’ve become quite proficient at Python, but lately also Grasshopper, VBA and some C#.
We use Speckle a lot in RHDHV and I hear about it almost every day, so I’m glad to now be part of this community!
When I’m not smashing keys on a keyboard I like to do volleyball, bouldering, board games, driving around Europe, and playing with this bad boy:
My name is Shashwat. I’m a recent computer science graduate from UBC, currently working as a developer for Mott MacDonald in Vancouver. I’m currently trying my best at learning speckle to help with interoperability between Civil3d, Grasshopper, Revit, and Unreal.
Hopefully, I can be an active member of this community and contribute to this rather exciting project. And with that, find streamlined workflows for the company to store and share the data.
When I’m not staring at 3 screens with red eyes, you can find me playing my guitars, trying to learn more about music production, and being pretentious about coffee.
Hi, I’m Peter. I’m an architectural associate at BI Architects and Space Planners in South Africa. Lately I’ve been getting into design automation and low-code development with Microsoft’s Power Platform. We’ve got a project coming up where we need to convert drawings for a few thousand retail stores across Europe into a structured, intelligent format to interface with the client’s logistics platform. Revit will get us quite far down that road, but I am interested in using Speckle in the workflow, including to help with reporting into Power BI.
Hi @ShashwatMott - nice to see you yesterday at the community standup! You know the drill, any questions, hit us up Tia looks majestic and composed, a nice followup to Molly from @peterleroux (you know i love black cats, but my feline adopter passed away some two years back).
Also welcome to @peterleroux! We’d love to hear more about that project and try and help out - e.g., if those drawings are DWGs or something digital, would love to try our hand at some automation on them and process them out in something a logistics platform would digest. It would be a quite cool usecase for Speckle!
Also when I can I try to spend as much time in nature.
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Kristjan, sorry we left abruptly - the plan was all along to stay friends and work together on OSS - so here we are!
We’re stoked to have you around. I remember getting annoyed at ExplicitHistory because RhinoScript felt like more control, but then i discovered the c# node (or it was added?) - and 
