Christopher Dale · Full Stack Engineer & Photographer

Clean code, creative problem solving, and performance optimised solutions.

Front-end focused full stack engineer with 8+ years’ experience building user-centric, production-grade web applications. I’ve contributed to large-scale replatforming projects across scale-ups and non-profits, always focused on clean and performance-optimised solutions that drive meaningful impact.

Following a sabbatical, I founded Nth Dimension Labs, an entrepreneurial venture studio for building and shipping creative side projects. My flagship project is Crust Central, a progressive web app for the global skateboarding community.

When I'm not writing code I'm behind the lens of a camera, shooting skateboard photography and videography. My work is shaped by a lifelong love of skateboarding and visual storytelling.

Nth Dimension Labs

Building Products from Scratch

Featured project · 2023–Present

Crust Central

A progeressive web app for discovering, cataloguing and sharing the rugged terrain of skateboarding spots - commonly referred to as "crust" amongst the skateboarding community. Users explore an interactive WebGL map, browse a media feed, submit their own photographs and videos, all with local-first performance.

Independently completed the full software development lifecycle, from design to delivery, utilising latest web technologies and engineering techniques including AI-driven development.

PWA Offline-First

WebGL Map Rendering

LLM Integration

PostGIS Spatial Database

NextJS React NodeJS TypeScript Supabase + PostGIS DeckGL MapLibre Jotai Tailwind ShadCN Gemini AI Zod Serwist DexieJS Cloudinary Cloudflare Upstash Netlify GitHub Actions PostHog Vitest

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Nth Dimension Labs

An entrepreneurial venture studio for building digital products. Founded in 2025.

Founder & Developer

Open to Collaborations

Interested in building something together? I'm available for technical consulting, freelance projects, and engineering roles within high-growth teams.

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Professional Experience

Shelter Senior Front End Engineer July 2019 — Sept 2022

Rebuilt Shelter’s web platform within a cross-functional Agile team, optimising critical user journeys and significantly improving core Web Vitals for 7M+ annual visitors
Owned end-to-end feature delivery, collaborating with product managers and designers to translate user requirements into performant, well-tested, and maintainable solutions
Worked closely with UX/UI designers to co-develop a unified, reusable component library, cutting front-end development time for new feature rollouts and ensuring UI consistency
Analysed engineering workflows and introduced process improvements that streamlined delivery, reduced sprint friction and elevated code quality across the team
Championed WCAG accessibility compliance, introducing team accessibility guidelines and automated testing tools to ensure equal access for Shelter’s user demographics
Line managed and mentored junior engineers, accelerating growth and career progression through pair programming sessions and regular 1:1 meetings

ReactJavaScriptStyled ComponentsContentful CMSStorybookJestCypressA11yResponsive UI

ASOS Associate Web Engineer May 2017 — July 2019

Collaborated within a fast-paced, scale-up environment as part of a cross-functional Agile team to modernise the ASOS web platform, following a scalable micro-frontends architecture, delivering performance and scalability improvements to 20M+ active users
Partnered closely with UX and design teams to translate complex, data-driven user insights into polished, responsive UI features that enhanced customer experience across key journeys
Applied TDD and rigorous code reviews to maintain high codebase maintainability, delivering resilient, modular and performant features capable of handling peak traffic
Actively contributed to Agile ceremonies and team technical discussions, sharpening user stories and acceptance criteria to ensure tasks aligned with product and sprint goals
Mentored junior engineers through targeted pair programming sessions, sharing knowledge and developing habits that led directly to team members being promoted

HTMLCSS ModulesReactReduxJavaScriptNodeJSJestCypressMicro-frontendsA/B TestingResponsive UI

BAE Systems Consultant Front End Engineer Sept 2015 — Feb 2017

Delivered front-end technical expertise across external client projects, building greenfield web applications for major organisations (Vodafone, Royal Navy) while modernising and optimising legacy platforms for enterprise clients (Three Mobile, Home Office)
Owned end-to-end delivery of an enterprise data visualisation project under a tight deadline and shifting requirements, reprioritising backlogs and delegating tasks effectively to ensure successful delivery, including comprehensive documentation and stakeholder training that facilitated its successful rollout across 20 global markets
Communicated clearly and effectively with non-technical stakeholders, translating complex business requirements into technical specifications

HTMLSCSSJavaScriptjQueryD3.jsHighchartsResponsive UI

First Utility Front End Engineer June 2013 — Sept 2014

Rebuilt First Utility’s digital platform within a cross-functional Agile team, translating wireframes into responsive, user-centric UIs, significantly improving usability and accessibility for end users, winning the 2014 Utilities Website of the Year award
Owned key data-visualisation features, translating complex energy consumption data into intuitive, interactive charts that empowered users to understand their household usage