"Bulky" is a full-stack e-commerce bookstore application I developed to master the ASP.NET Core MVC framework. This comprehensive, data-driven project simulates a real-world online retail platform, featuring a robust admin dashboard with full CRUD functionality for managing products, categories, and inventory. It also includes a complete e-commerce pipeline for customers, from browsing and adding items to a session-based shopping cart to a secure checkout and order processing. The application implements complex authentication and authorization using .NET Identity to protect user roles (Customers vs. Admins) and leverages a Microsoft SQL Server database to manage all product, user, and order data, demonstrating end-to-end development of a secure, scalable web application.