Christopher Horler is a Digital Engineering Solutions Architect with ~15 years at Airbus, specialising in end-to-end design and production processes for multiple aircraft programmes from development to serial production. He blends deep domain expertise in PLM, configured DMU, product structure architecture and STEP/ISO 10303 implementation with hands-on tool ownership and CAD automation (CATIA V5, VPM, Primes). Christopher has led cross-functional strategy and process evolution projects—notably A350 long-term 3D archive and massive product structure/DMU updates—while mentoring teams on multidisciplinary design integration and ontology-driven neutral layer services. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he pairs process architecture and tooling governance with scripting and integration skills to bridge engineering and manufacturing needs. Outside work he contributes to open source and researches product indexing methods, bringing standards-level insight to practical engineering workflows.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BEng (Hons), Aerospace Engineering, BEng (Hons), Aerospace Engineering at The University of Manchester
Contributions:2 releases, 62 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years
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Christopher Horler - Digital Engineering Solutions Architect at Airbus