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Kaushik Selva
Dhanush Ravi

Bridging the AECO industry with digital products

Product Manager — Lifecycle Twin at Siemens · Six years of building digital twins from the data up — now leading the go-to-market for the Swiss market.

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Years Experience
2
Publications
17
Projects Delivered
3
Countries
Kaushik Selva Dhanush Ravi
🏗️ Digital Twin
🧊 BIM / IFC
🤖 AI Agents
🐍 Python · C#
🥽 VR / Mixed Reality
⚙️ Revit API
🎓 ETH Zurich
About

Building the bridge between
physical and digital

I'm the Product Manager for the Lifecycle Twin — Siemens' digital twin for buildings — leading its go-to-market in Switzerland, growing the partner ecosystem, and opening new market segments. A large part of the job is the handover moment: making sure a building's data survives the jump from construction into operations. I earned this seat from the technical side, which means I can meet customers, partners and engineers in their own language.

The foundations: Civil Engineering at NIT Tiruchirappalli, a Master's in Integrated Building Systems at ETH Zurich, and an ongoing Executive Master's in Digital Innovation & Entrepreneurial Leadership at ESCP — because the problems I want to solve next are product problems, not just technical ones.

What I leave behind matters more than what I was called: standards three product lines share, pipelines that replaced manual work, an internal product owned end-to-end, and two peer-reviewed publications.

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Location
Zurich, Switzerland
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Current Role
Product Manager, Lifecycle Twin · Siemens
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Latest Education
ESCP Business School (EMDIEL, Ongoing)
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Email
kaushikselvadhanush@gmail.com
Experience

From building models to building products

Seven years, one thread: take the messy reality of the built world, turn it into data, and turn that data into products. Every chapter below ends with something that outlived the role — a standard, a pipeline, a publication, a product.

Siemens Schweiz AG
Product Manager — Lifecycle Twin (Switzerland)
Zurich, Switzerland
Jul 2026 → Present
  • Lead the Lifecycle Twin (Digital Twin for buildings) for the Swiss market, focused on go-to-market strategy
  • Foster cross-functional collaboration to strengthen the partner ecosystem and drive market entry into new segments
  • Oversee the transition from construction to operational handover, ensuring seamless maintenance processes
Siemens Schweiz AG
BIM + Digital Twin Integrator
Zurich, Switzerland
Dec 2023 → Jun 2026
  • Standardized one BIM workflow across the Fire, Security and Comfort product lines — three domains now speak the same data language
  • Defined the requirements and processes that connect real-project BIM models to the Building X Lifecycle Twin
  • Shipped Revit plugins that removed manual modelling steps for planners and partners
Building X Life Cycle Twin
Operational Digital Twin
  • Requirement engineering
  • Integration & process definition
  • Technical support
BIM Workflow Development
Process Enabler for Fire / Security / Comfort
  • BIM process standardization
  • Revit plugin development
Basler & Hofmann AG
BIM Engineer — IDEAS Team (Digital Innovation in Construction Planning)
Zurich, Switzerland
Feb 2022 → Nov 2023
  • Took WireWise from idea to internal product as Product Owner — my first product leadership role
  • Replaced manual airport modelling with an automated GIS-to-BIM pipeline
  • Put stakeholders inside infrastructure years before construction — through VR, simulation and interactive web experiences
WireWise — Cable Management Solution
Product Owner · 2023
  • Planning tool for electrical engineers
  • Tendering, construction process & maintenance tooling
Replacement of Lighting Technology
BIM Coordinator
  • GIS-to-BIM data management
  • Automated BIM workflows
  • BIM process coordination
Apron Renovation
Modeller
  • Underground utility modelling
  • Dynamo cable system modelling
B&H Revit Plugin
Internal Tool · Since 2022
  • New in-house plugin development
  • Existing plugin maintenance
Street Noise Analysis
Data Analysis
  • Acoustic data analysis
  • Data visualization app
Railway Station Expansion
Train Movement Simulation · 2022
  • Video export of train journeys
  • Driver perspective analysis
Highway Lane Expansion
Visual Innovation · 2022
  • VR development
  • Traffic simulation
  • Interactive website
Basler & Hofmann AG
BIM Intern (Praktikant)
Zurich, Switzerland
Aug 2021 → Feb 2022
AMG Autobahn
Slovakia · Highway Project
  • Axis-based model generation
  • Model programming
Underground Tunnel Project
VR Development
  • Interactive VR app development
  • Underground roundabout visibility study with BIM Model
Siemens Schweiz AG
Working Student / Intern — BIM Engineer
Zug, Switzerland
Feb 2020 → Jul 2021
  • Project: Building Twin — generated the machine-readable BIM models that enabled the building's digital twin and shaped the product's foundational architecture
ETH Zürich — Chair of Architecture and Building Systems
Research Assistant
Zurich, Switzerland
Sep 2019 → May 2020
  • Improved the strength of binder-jet 3D-printed sand elements through a Design-of-Experiments post-processing study
  • Co-authored the findings in the Rapid Prototyping Journal (2021)
Education

Academic foundations

ESCP Business School
Executive M.Sc — Digital Innovation & Entrepreneurial Leadership (EMDIEL)
Sep 2025 → Present
Ongoing
Stanford University × FHNW
VDC Certification — Virtual Design and Construction
Aug 2024 → May 2025  ·  Partnership Program
Completed
ETH Zurich
M.Sc, Integrated Building Systems
Sep 2018 → 2021
Completed
EIT Climate-KIC / ETH Zurich
Climate-KIC Master Label Program
2019 → 2021
Completed
National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
B.Tech, Civil Engineering
2014 → 2018
Completed
Skills

Tools & technologies

Modelling
Revit AutoCAD Civil3D Rhinoceros
Development
C# Python Revit API Dynamo PyRevit Grasshopper
Platforms & Tools
BuildingX BIMCollab Unity ArcGIS Git XML/XSD SPARQL
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Tamil
Native
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English
Fluent
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German
C1
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Hindi
Conversational
Publications

Research & writing

Conference Paper · ISARC 2021
Real-time Digital Twin of On-site Robotic Construction Processes in Mixed Reality
38th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, pp. 451–458
Master's thesis: creating a digital twin of robotic bricklaying processes with live visualization in Mixed Reality. Design, implementation and real-time data streaming.
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Journal Article · Rapid Prototyping Journal 2021
Investigating Mechanical and Thermo-physical Properties of Binder Jet 3D Printed Elements Using a Statistical Experiment Approach
Rapid Prototyping Journal, Vol. 27/9, pp. 1709–1730 · Seshadri, B., Ravi, K.S.D., Hischier, I. & Schlueter, A.
Design-of-Experiments approach to improve strength of binder-jet 3D-printed sand elements via various post-processing methodologies.
Certifications

Credentials & learning

Data Science for Construction, Architecture & Engineering
Revit Structure
Cert Prep: Scrum Master
Revit: Generative Design
Generative Design Foundations