Alex Soar

Frontend Developer @Halfords

Paralimni, CY

Architected and built a large-scale, interactive kiosk application from the ground up using a modern stack including Vue 3 (Composition API), TypeScript, and Vite. Developed a robust, reusable component library that ensured visual consistency and accelerated development speed.• Engineered a complex, dynamic content filtering system with multi-level categories that asynchronously fetches data from a REST API. Implemented a client-side caching strategy with Pinia that dramatically reduced API calls and improved UI responsiveness during language changes and navigation.• Developed key kiosk-specific functionalities to ensure a seamless public user experience, including an inactivity timer for automatic session reset and the systematic blocking of external links and context menus to lock users within the application.• Created highly interactive, touch-friendly UI elements, such as custom draggable content sliders (useDraggable composable), ensuring smooth performance on large touch-screen displays.• Managed the end-to-end deployment process, configuring Nginx on an Ubuntu server for a Single-Page Application, and collaborated with the back-end team to debug and resolve complex issues related to CORS and API rate limiting.

North-Caucasus Federal University

Bachelor of Finance, Banking and Financial Support Services