David Sawatzky

Full Stack Web Developer


I design and build engaging and functional products for the internet.

My first experience with computer networks came in the late 1980’s when I would string a phone cable from my room to my parent’s room, through an outside window, because they had a phone jack. Then I would dial-up to a local Bulletin Board Service, where I would spend the next hour downloading tick-tac-toe.

A lot has changed since those days. I’ve been building websites since the early 2000’s and a few years ago (in no small part to Covid) decided to go in full-time.

Currently, I focus on building online applications and websites for my clients through Diatonic. I enjoy both creating new and visually appealing web designs, as well as applications that serve the business needs of my clients.

Experience

2024 - present

Steinbach Arts Council

Update, redesign and maintain their in-house CRM application. The arts council offers a numerous classes in visual arts and music for the Steinbach, MB community. Their custom CRM application manages their clients, students, programs, donors, and all other details of the organization.

  • PHP
  • TailwindCSS
  • MySQL
2022 - present

Winnipeg Music Festival

Built their online registration application. The annual festival manages approximately 1500 registrants per year. Along with providing an online registration process, the application also provides robust data management to help organize the month-long festival.

  • Node
  • Nest
  • Nuxt
  • Typescript
  • GraphQL
  • PostgreSQL
2023

3Common

Internship with 3Common. Worked on a variety of coding tickets on their social media application. Was included as an agile team member using Jira for project management.

  • Vue3
  • TypeScript
  • Quasar
  • Netlify
2020 - present

Diatonic Web Design and Development

My own freelance web business, creating, maintaining, and hosting web sites for a number of different clients.

Some Sample Projects

Gramps Market

A simple online market using a free public API from Kroger. The project was really to learn Ruby on Rails and the ecosystem that revolves around it.

  • Ruby on Rails
  • SQLite

Art Institute of Chicago

A project working with the open api from the Art Institute of Chicago. Incorporates a simple search function that retrieves a list of relevant artworks.

  • React
  • CSS

Winnipeg Parks

More fun with data apis. Winnipeg provides and api which provides the names of all the parks and open spaces in the city. This simple site allows you to search the database using several filters.

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

Fishing CMS

A simple CMS written in PHP. If you like fish, you might learning something.

  • PHP
  • MySQL

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