Radu Gidei
Co-Founder And CTO at KOPE.ai
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRadu Gidei is a creative engineer and founder with 11 years of experience combining architecture, computational design and software development to modernize the built environment. As Co-Founder and CTO of KOPE.ai and matterlab, he builds AI-enabled platforms and cloud tools that bridge design, manufacturing and construction workflows. Early career roles as a BIM manager and architectural designer inform his pragmatic approach to product development and automation for AECO clients. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Dynamo—adding core date/time and file operation features and tests—demonstrating hands-on full-stack engineering in design tooling. Radu’s background in programming and robotics fuels a habit of prototyping bespoke interactive models, while his teaching experience keeps his work grounded in clear, transferable workflows. That blend of aesthetic sensibility, technical rigor and community-focused impact distinguishes his leadership.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalaureate Math Computer Programming Physics Chemistry English French, Baccalaureate Math Computer Programming Physics Chemistry English French at Colegiul National Emil RacovitaMaster of Architecture (MArch) Architecture, Master of Architecture (MArch) Architecture at University for the Creative Arts
English, French, Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
file-handling10
unit-testing10
file-processing10
file-access10
csharp10
fileio10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
api-design9
visual-programming-language9
visual-programming9
bim8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DynamoDS/Dynamo
Jan 2017 - Mar 2020
Open Source Graphical Programming for Design
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 20 PRs, 35 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Radu primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality of the Dynamo project by introducing new features and improving existing ones related to date and time manipulation and file operations. They implemented a `NowByFormat` node to format the current system date and time, refactored the `Format` function for DateTime objects, and added unit tests to validate functionality. In addition, the user expanded file operation nodes by adding an `AppendText` method, incorporating a recursive option for the `GetDirectoryContents` method, and including relevant unit tests. They also updated tooltips and default values in several nodes.
graphical-programminggraphicaldynamo-apidynamovisualprogramming
radumg/BS1192
Apr 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 release, 41 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 6 months
workflowshandleworkflow
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