COACHING SAAS
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Chesscraft
Full-stack chess coaching SaaS with realtime classrooms, puzzle assignments, game imports, Stripe Connect billing, and admin operations tooling.
LaravelReactTypeScriptPostgreSQLStripe Connect
View case study ↗AVAILABLE FOR SELECT WORK · Q3 2026
I build fast, resilient web products end to end.
I'm Chris Gillis, a full-stack engineer with 15 years shipping web platforms — from pixel-tight interfaces to the streaming backends that feed them. I care about speed, clarity, and code that ages well.
React/TypeScript/Go/Node.js/Next.js/PostgreSQL/GraphQL/Distributed Systems/Real-time/
01 — SELECTED WORK
Things I've shipped
CIVIC TECH
AoR
AoR
Civic-tech volunteer marketplace for campaigns, featuring AI-assisted request parsing, skill-based matching, geospatial workflows, and admin tooling.
LaravelReactPostGISInertia.jsFilament
View case study ↗REALTIME GAME
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Rollin' with my mates
Original realtime multiplayer game with a deterministic TypeScript engine, server-authoritative Supabase architecture, hidden-information redaction, and chess-inspired tactical combat.
TypeScriptReactSupabasePostgreSQLRealtime
View case study ↗LIVE EVENTS
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BartyGames
Realtime live-event game platform for bars and MCs, with anonymous QR player joins, authenticated host controls, projected display screens, and Convex-backed synchronization.
ReactTanStack StartConvexClerkTypeScript
View case study ↗02 — TOOLKIT
The stack I reach for
Frontend
React / Next.jsexpert
TypeScriptexpert
Vue / Sveltefluent
Design systemsexpert
Accessibilitystrong
Backend
Node.jsexpert
Goexpert
Postgres / Redisexpert
Event streamingstrong
Infra & Data
Posthogfluent
Supabasefluent
AWS / GCPexpert
Terraformfluent
CI/CD pipelinesexpert
Observabilitystrong
Have something worth
building?
I take on a small number of projects and advisory engagements each quarter. If you're working on something ambitious, I'd love to hear about it.
© 2026 Chris Gillis — built from scratch, no template.Designed & engineered in the open.