Christopher Diggins

Christopher Diggins

Founder
Ara 3D
Bio

Christopher’s work challenges long-standing assumptions about BIM performance, interoperability, and extensibility. He is developing next-generation design tools that allow AEC professionals to query, transform, and visualize billions of data points across multi-gigabyte BIM models in real time.

While industries such as gaming and data engineering have embraced high-performance computing and real-time systems architecture, AEC workflows have largely remained constrained by legacy software paradigms. Christopher applies modern systems design principles to rethink how building information is structured, processed, and visualized.

Drawing on 30 years of experience across software engineering, programming language design, and large-scale systems architecture, he is building desktop software and services for the AEC industry that fundamentally expand what practitioners can expect from their tools.

Over his career, Christopher has authored peer-reviewed journal articles, designed and implemented multiple programming languages, worked at Autodesk and Microsoft, taught computer science at the university level, and spoken internationally on generative design, data-flow systems, and software engineering.

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