Chris Nordrum smiling in a light blue button-up shirt

Chris Nordrum

Web Developer

Fast, accessible websites for small businesses. Full-stack engineer by day.

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Projects

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  1. Innisfail Car Wash

    Client

    Prices, hours and directions for Top Gear's Innisfail location, on a fast, accessible site I designed and built.

    • html
    • css
    • javascript
    • HTML/CSS
    • Lighthouse 96+

  2. Wage Atlas

    Side quest

    An experiment in whether an automated open-data site can pay for itself. Built with Claude Code — I set the goal, the constraints and the kill criteria; Claude wrote the pipeline.

    • python
    • github-actions
    • open-data
    • Python
    • 275 pages a month

  3. Granted

    SAIT

    Back-end on a scholarship-matching platform, Best Capstone at SAIT's Re:IGNITE Creative Technologies Awards. Built the deadline reminder system in PHP and MySQL.

    • php
    • mysql
    • javascript
    • PHP
    • Best Capstone

  4. DORC

    SAIT

    Project lead on a productivity app. Owned authentication and security: JWT, RBAC, and a CSP tightened after OWASP ZAP testing.

    • react
    • nodejs
    • express
    • mongodb
    • jwt
    • React
    • 4-person team

  5. Wild Rose Foundry

    SAIT

    Designed and built a full-stack e-commerce site from scratch, from a 7-table relational database to a responsive storefront for browsing vendors and placing orders.

    • php
    • mysql
    • javascript
    • html
    • css
    • PHP

  6. Top Gear Tire Shine

    Side quest

    A design side project: I created the label for Top Gear Car Wash's tire shine for their 10th-anniversary event, which they printed on 500 bottles and gave away.

    • label-design
    • print
    • Sketch to print in 1 day

  7. Shangri-La

    SAIT

    Redesigned and rebuilt a beach resort website from the ground up, focusing on cleaner navigation, visual hierarchy, and a fully responsive layout.

    • html
    • css
    • javascript
    • HTML/CSS

  8. Counterpunch Boxing Club

    Client

    I built and host the website for a boxing gym in Olds, Alberta, and look after its SEO.

    • web-design
    • seo
    • hosting
    • Built & hosted

  9. Krown Edge

    Side quest

    An online store my buddy and I started, selling mechanical watches and knives. I designed and built the storefront, which is what got me into web development in the first place.

    • shopify
    • e-commerce
    • Co-founder