A 'just for fun' application built with React. The user types a text on an old Nokia cell; the app uses a (basic) English dictionary to suggest words as you type. Custom words are added to the dictionary and most used words are prioritized when showing the suggestions.
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Hello! My name is Alexandra Haret and I live in Barcelona.
In my spare time, I work on various side projects, run, drink coffee, cook, fix things and explore new places.
After having worked for just over a decade as a digital marketing specialist, I decided to embrace a new career as a front end developer in order to make better use of my analytical and creative skills: I started off by studying the basics (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript) and then moved on to jQuery, AngularJS, Bootstrap, Foundation, Gulp and more. Over the past years, I've applied my newly acquired knowledge and skills in various projects for external clients, as well as personal projects that challenged me to learn even more technologies.
At the moment I am a full-time frontend engineer with a fast-growing tech company in Barcelona, and also work on a few personal projects to further develop my skills and knowledge. My latest projects are listed in the 'Recent work' section above.
You can find out more about any of my projects on the following websites:
Skyscanner - market leader app and website for modern and sustainable travel Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain June 2019 - present
I had the opportunity to work on dozens of projects, from front-end focused to backend service, data processing pipelines, tracking and monitoring, running A/B feature tests and more.
Main technologies used: React, Redux, Jest, Webpack, NodeJS, Databricks, Pyspark, Docker, AWS, Python, Java
Wallapop - hyper-local mobile marketplace for buying and selling secondhand goods Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain March 2018 - April 2019
As part of the chat team, my main responsibilities include the development of the web chat system, a large real time client/server architecture. I'm also contributing to the re-architecture of the chat functionality, switching from using XMPP protocol to a HTTP implementation.
Main web development technologies used: Angular 5, Jasmine, Karma, XMPP, Docker, jQuery, SCSS, Git, Yarn
Realise - full service digital agency Edinburgh, UK Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
As part of the web development team, I have worked on projects for Expedia and Standard Life, my main responsibilities including: creating responsive, dynamic sites and microsites; developing customisable email templates for integration with popular email marketing tools such as Marketo
Main web development technologies used: HTML, CSS, Foundation Emails, SCSS, Less, JavaScript, Angular, Angular 4, VueJS, Gulp
The ID Co - real-time financial data reporting Edinburgh, UK Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
As part of the front end development team, my main responsibilities include: creating responsive, on-brand microsites for our B2B customers, developing a customizable WordPress themes using the WP Customizer API and contributing to the development of the company's core product, the Angular SPA (Single Page Application). I have also implemented a pattern library (Atomic design) to be used as the foundation for revamping the company's commercial site.
Main web development technologies used: HTML, CSS, WordPress, Foundation, SCSS, Less, JavaScript, AngularJS, Jasmine, Karma, Gulp, PatternLab
Freelance work on various projects Edinburgh, UK Feb 2016 - Feb 2017
My front end career started as a part-time hobby, from building simple HTML-based 'tabs' for corporate Facebook pages to developing HTML email templates and customised website widgets using HTML and JavaScript. Finding this domain very appealing, I decided to make a career change and I'm currently honing my new-found front end coding skills (in particular CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and AngularJS) delivering projects for various external clients - Trofeo Verduci being one of the most recent ones.
My work spanned across all areas of digital marketing, from strategy and PR to email campaigns and reporting.
I took the initiative to maintain and improve the corporate Joomla-based website. This work piqued my interest in the underlying code that drives websites so I gradually started to 'look under the hood' and improve the look and behaviour of the website by creating modules and landing pages, editing and adding new CSS to improve responsiveness, implementing schema structured data markup to improve presence on search engines, etc.
I also built several HTML email templates following PSD mock-ups provided and optimised them to render appropriately on common email clients on both desktop and mobile devices.
Main web development technologies used: HTML, CSS/CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
My work with the brand included marketing, social media and PR tasks: refining and implementing the social media marketing strategy across various relevant platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn), creating, delivering and reporting on the e-mail newsletter campaigns, setting up, managing and optimizing the brand's paid ads campaigns. I also updated the WordPress website and honed the MailChimp email newsletter template.
My role involved creating the external and internal communication materials. I have set up and successfully developed the company's social media presence on multiple channels (Facebook, Twitter, Google+) to meet the business goals to the point of generating over $10,000 in monthly sales from social media channels alone. This work also involved building custom 'page tabs' using simple HTML and doing design work to develop the imagery needed for these channels.
My role also included working on SEO-related tasks: link building, promoting the company blogs on social media, improving the semantic usage of HTML markup for web pages.
The fastest way to get a response from me is to send me an email - I will try my best to respond in less than 24 hours:
This website was built responsively using HTML5, CSS, jQuery and a slightly customised instance of the Foundation Flex Grid. Fonts are served through Google Fonts and I used the ScrollMagic JavaScript library to animate the timeline.
Social media marketing (contract)
Skyscanner - travel metasearch engine Edinburgh, UK June 2014 - Dec 2014
During my collaboration with Skyscanner, I worked on a number of tasks mostly in the social media and online marketing domain: market research, social media strategy and content creation, social ads management, etc.
This role marked my first experience in a large tech company with a mobile first mentality and it was my first encounter with the Agile methodology which I have come to appreciate and subsequently managed to partially implement in my subsequent role with Onestop IT.