Tom Svilans
CTO at Omtre
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolTom Svilans is a CTO, researcher, and computational designer with a decade-long career at the intersection of digital technology and timber practice, currently leading technology at Omtre and researching at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. He specializes in computational modelling, digital fabrication, and ICT integration across the timber value chain—from forestry and sawmilling to large-scale free-form construction and reuse. His PhD, conducted within the EU InnoChain network and developed in close collaboration with Swiss contractor Blumer Lehmann and White Arkitekter, produced a digitally-augmented material practice for engineered timber structures. Tom combines academic teaching at leading schools (Bartlett, AA, IAAC) with hands-on consultancy and fabrication coordination, translating research into production workflows. He brings rare domain depth in imaging, 3D scanning, and communication technologies that link design intelligence to timber fabrication. Based in Copenhagen, he balances scholarly publication with practical project delivery, making him a go-to specialist for complex timber geometry and digitally-driven manufacturing.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Architecture - BArch, Architecture, High Distinction, Bachelor of Architecture - BArch, Architecture, High Distinction at Carleton UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Architecture, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Architecture at Royal Danish AcademyMaster of Architecture - MArch, Architecture, Distinction, Master of Architecture - MArch, Architecture, Distinction at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
English, Latvian, French, Danish
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Github Skills (106)
x-plane10
triangle10
openframeworks10
sparse10
rhinoceros10
rhino3d10
volume-rendering10
blender10
autocad9
polyhedra9
rhino9
interop9
ply9
python-client9
aec9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tsvilans/tas
Dec 2017 - Apr 2022
A .NET personal toolkit for research and exploration. Uses RhinoCommon for geometric types.
Contributions:70 commits, 2 PRs, 106 pushes in 4 years 5 months
geometricdotnetcsharprhinocommon
speckleworks/PySpeckle
Nov 2018 - Dec 2020
Speckle likes Pies. Or was it Pythons?
Contributions:4 reviews, 39 commits, 35 PRs in 2 years
specklepythonpythonslikes
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