Hey, I'm Chris.

I'm a Lead Frontend Engineer specializing in React & React Native. I get products to market quickly and build awesome apps that customers love — production interfaces, design systems that survive their first year, and mobile apps shipped to the App Store and Play Store.

For the last decade that has meant 0→1 product work and the less glamorous second half: turning a prototype into software a team can actually run, and leading the people who run it. Alongside client work I build and ship desktop software under my own studio, Delacour.

Currently based in the United Kingdom working as a Forward Deployed Engineer for Lazer Technologies.

Work

A few things I’ve shipped

Products, teams and places from the last few years — client work, side projects, and the odd photo from wherever the laptop happened to be open that week.

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Ventures

Things I'm building

Businesses and platforms I own rather than contract on — a tour company, a studio, and a platform for React Native engineers.

Openroad Motorcycle Tours

Family-run guided motorcycle tours across New Zealand and Spain — small groups, routes we ride ourselves, and the logistics handled end to end.

Delacour

My independent studio: design and engineering for ambitious products, and the name on the desktop software published from this site.

Teardown

A platform helping React Native engineers ship better, faster apps — profiling, release tooling and the practices that keep a mobile app quick as it grows.

Apps

Software I ship

Desktop and web software published under Delacour. All free, all built with Tauri, React and Rust, and all running on your own machine unless they have a reason not to.

Outpost

A desktop client that puts Gmail and Google Calendar in one fast, keyboard-driven window, with multi-account support, a command palette and instant search.

Splitpush

A League of Legends companion with champion statistics, a tier list built from real match data, and a live in-game overlay. Free, on the web and the desktop.

Nimbus

A Finder-style desktop browser for S3 and anything that speaks it — AWS S3, MinIO, Cloudflare R2, or your own endpoint. Nothing to sign up for.

Quarry

A desktop database viewer for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite. Scroll millions of rows without waiting, and write SQL with autocompletion beside them.

Folio

A desktop markdown workspace for the files already on your disk. Open a folder, browse it like Finder, and write with a live preview — nothing leaves your machine.

Services

What I do

Four things, mostly overlapping. Engagements run from a few weeks of prototyping to leading a team through a full product cycle.

Frontend Engineering

Production React & TypeScript — performant interfaces and design systems that stay maintainable after launch, not just through it. Accessibility and rendering performance treated as requirements rather than polish.

Mobile Apps

React Native & Expo apps shipped to the App Store and Play Store, including the release engineering and over-the-air update paths that keep a team shipping weekly rather than quarterly.

Product & Prototyping

0→1 product work — fast iteration from an idea to something real people can use, then the unglamorous second phase where a prototype becomes software a team can run.

Technical Leadership

Leading teams and owning architecture to ship quality software at pace, which in practice means deciding what not to build as often as what to build.

Clients

Teams I've built with

A decade of client and in-house work across agriculture, mobility, hospitality, media and fintech — startups at seed through to companies with millions of users.

Tech Stack

Tools I reach for

What I reach for by default, not an exhaustive list. The through-line is TypeScript everywhere, Rust where it earns its keep, and tooling fast enough that nobody avoids running it.