Josip S.

Hi, I'm Josip, a civil engineer (MSc), former Lead Software Developer at Autodesk, and founder of ByLayer. I help engineering, construction and manufacturing companies automate their CAD workflows with AI and custom software. I started out on construction sites, not in code. As a foreman and later a city district manager for road construction in Zagreb, I led teams of up to 10 people and did the plans, cost estimates and subcontractor coordination myself. I know how much engineering time goes into repetitive drawing work, because I did it. For the past 8+ years I've been building the software that removes that work: • AutoCAD, BricsCAD and Revit plugins in C#/.NET (AutoCAD .NET API, Revit API) • Autodesk Platform Services (Forge) and BIM 360 web apps for model viewing and data • Quantity takeoff, labelling, drawing generation and standards-checking tools • Integrations between CAD and Excel, databases, CRMs and cloud storage • AI-assisted workflows that turn engineering rules into automated, repeatable steps ByLayer.AI is my own product. It's a cloud platform that fills, checks and plots AutoCAD, BricsCAD, ZWCAD and GstarCAD drawings without anyone opening CAD. It populates drawings from Excel or CRM data, checks them against your CAD standards, batch-plots to PDF and generates reports like bills of materials. If your workflow fits it, you get results quickly. If it doesn't, I build a custom solution. Highlights: • Lead Software Developer at Autodesk (PLM) • 1st prize, Autodesk BIM Hackathon Croatia, for a browser-based 3D BIM configurator that rebuilds geometry in Revit • Built ConCAD, an AutoCAD plugin for quantity takeoff from 2D drawings • 100% Job Success, Top Rated, 5.8K+ hours on Upwork Why work with me: I understand both the engineering and the code. You don't have to explain what a cross-section, a block attribute or a plot style is. I ask the right questions, deliver clean and maintainable code, and communicate clearly in English (C2) and German (C1). If your team spends hours on drafting, labelling, checking or plotting that software could handle, send me a message and let's see what we can automate.