Available for select projectsHalifax, Nova Scotia · AST

Full-stack developer · 6+ years professional experience

Digital productswith a point of view.

Selected work · 2024—2026

Built to be
used.

Selected full-stack applications and product experiments, with the implementation details and decisions that shaped each build.

Live

E-Commerce Platform

A full-stack storefront spanning product discovery, cart, checkout, auth, and admin workflows.

Built with a React and TypeScript frontend, an Express and Node.js API, and MongoDB persistence, with the frontend and backend deployed as separate services.

Implementation highlights

React and TypeScript frontend with an Express and Node.js API
MongoDB persistence, JWT auth, cart/session handling, and protected admin routes
Stripe checkout, request validation, core-path tests, and separate frontend/backend deployments

FocusFull-stack design & development

StackReact · TypeScript · Express · Node.js

Tools & technologies

Open live app View GitHub

Live

Analytics Dashboard

An exploratory retail analytics and data-visualization project.

Organizes a large retail dataset into a deployed dashboard demo with filters, KPI views, charts, anomaly signals, and a 30-day revenue forecast.

Implementation highlights

Reusable React component structure for dashboard states, filters, and KPI views
Charts and forecasting views connected to an Express API and MongoDB-backed retail data
AI-assisted development process, with implementation and outputs reviewed and refined by hand

FocusExploratory product design & development

StackReact · TypeScript · Python · Express

Tools & technologies

Open live app View GitHub

Chris Dirks portfolio homepage with editorial typography and dark visual design

Live

Developer Portfolio

A responsive portfolio system for presenting selected work with clarity and personality.

Built to give hiring teams a clear, fast path through selected work while preserving a distinctive visual point of view.

Implementation highlights

Editorial design system and responsive layout built with Next.js, React, and TypeScript
Reusable project presentation, accessible navigation, and reduced-motion support
Cohesive personal branding, optimized image delivery, metadata, and Vercel deployment

FocusCreative direction & full-stack development

StackNext.js · TypeScript · React · Tailwind CSS

Tools & technologies

Open live app View GitHub

Beyond the selected work

Keep exploring on GitHub.

Selected work is curated here. Additional experiments, tooling, and in-progress projects live on GitHub.

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Capabilities / About

Small studio energy.
End-to-end thinking.

I’m Chris, a full-stack developer based in Halifax with 6+ years of professional experience building React, Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, and full-stack applications. I move comfortably between interface decisions, application logic, and the details that make software feel considered.

Chris Dirks — Based in Halifax · Working worldwide

Product interfaces

Responsive, accessible interfaces shaped around the task—not the trend.

Full-stack systems

Practical application architecture from data model and API through deployment.

Design engineering

A design-aware development process that keeps polish and performance aligned.

Core stack React · Angular · TypeScript · Node.js · Next.js · MongoDB · PostgreSQL

Have something in mind?

Digital productswith a point of view.

E-Commerce Platform

Analytics Dashboard

Developer Portfolio

Keep exploring on GitHub.

Small studio energy.End-to-end thinking.

Product interfaces

Full-stack systems

Design engineering

Let’s make itreal.

Small studio energy.
End-to-end thinking.

Let’s make it
real.