Christopher Diggins
Lead Software Developer And Founder at Ara 3D
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolChristopher Diggins is a seasoned software developer, entrepreneur, and technical communicator who founded Ara 3D and leads its development of next-generation 3D CAD and BIM tools for AEC professionals. With over 25 years in software and 14 years of focused professional experience, his career bridges hands-on engineering, product ownership, and research leadership across companies like Autodesk and VIM. He architected high-performance, node-based and functional programming systems (notably the Max Creation Graph) and has shipped tooling that blends compilers, data structures, and real-time geometry pipelines. An experienced instructor and mentor, he has taught advanced programming and algorithms while publishing language and tooling work such as the Cat language and open-source C# libraries. Based in Montreal, he combines startup grit with enterprise product stewardship and a knack for making complex developer workflows more accessible. A less obvious strength is his long-running mix of practical R&D, documentation craft, and entrepreneurial productization that turns research ideas into shipped software.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Course Work Computer Science, Advanced Course Work Computer Science at Université de MontréalB.A. (incomplete) Computer Science, B.A. (incomplete) Computer Science at York UniversityB.A. (incomplete) Music / Computer Science, B.A. (incomplete) Music / Computer Science at McGill University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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documentation
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permutation
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javascript
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computer-science
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swig
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Github Skills (151)
parser10
lexer10
parser-combinators10
file-format10
netcore10
aec10
configurator10
assetbundle10
dotnet10
peg10
tokenizer10
grammars10
obj10
cheat-engine10
parser-api10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vimaec/Math3D
Oct 2018 - Sep 2021
A .NET Standard 2.0 library for simple and efficient 3D math that is a feature-rich replacement for System.Numerics https://vimaec.github.io/Math3D
Contributions:3 reviews, 76 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years
mathvector-mathdotnetfeature-rich3d-math
ADN-DevTech/3dsMax-MCG-Samples
Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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