alextana

Senior Front-End Engineer · Brighton, UK

Front-end engineer with 8 years in the field, building high-performance, scalable applications that teams can keep building on long after launch.

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Blog

Migrating a production app from Vue 2 to Vue 3

How a two-person team migrated a ten-year-old Laravel and Vue 2 app to Vue 3 with no test safety net, while feature work kept landing until we finally won a code freeze.

  • Vue 2 → Vue 3
  • Two-person team
  • Zero post-release issues

Blog

How I approached building Amiqus' design system

Shipping more than 15 production components alongside feature work, and getting designers to the point where they open PRs.

  • 15+ components
  • Designers opening PRs
  • Built alongside features

Blog

Plant Bud, a plant monitor that tells me when to water

A side project that wires a battery-powered ESP32 to a small server and an AI model, so my orchid gets a daily check-up and I get a push notification only when it actually needs me.

  • ESP32 sensor node
  • Daily AI analysis
  • Push notifications

About

I'm Italian, and I moved to the UK in 2015 to study drums at BIMM Brighton. I've been tinkering with HTML and CSS since I was a child, starting out making skins for phpBB forums.

After university I decided to give it a go as a profession, and here we are.

Experience

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  1. – Present

    Senior Front-End Engineer

    Amiqus · Brighton, UK (Remote)

    • Building the company design system from scratch: 15+ production components, shipped alongside feature work.Read the post
    • Led the adoption of Claude across feature teams and shaped how engineers work with AI-assisted development.

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    Front-End Engineer

    Amiqus · Brighton, UK (Remote)

    • Led the Vue 2 → Vue 3 migration of the entire app, shipped with zero issues after release.Read the post
    • Led the Webpack → Vite migration with the platform team, a like-for-like switch with no impact on users.
    • Led accessibility remediation following an AbilityNet audit across a multi-month project.

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    Front-End Developer

    BarkWeb · Eastbourne, UK

    • Created and maintained a production Svelte UI component library for Jolojo, BarkWeb's CMS and website builder.
    • Built BarkWeb's design system in Svelte and Tailwind CSS.
    • Built the front end of BarkWeb's auction platform.

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    Front-End Developer

    Bluesky Interactive · Haywards Heath, UK

    • Built and maintained websites for car dealerships using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and VB.NET.
    • Converted parts of the platform's UX to Vue and rewrote jQuery code in vanilla JavaScript.