VAIO : Software Engineer
AVITA / VAIO
About
I worked as a Software Engineer working on the frontend for VAIO and AVITA, both of which are computer manufacturers to migrate their websites from a LAMP stack, azure hosted website to a more cost-effective alternative as the company is sunsetting.
I previously did an internship with ALCO hence they reached out to me for help, since the timeline was loose and business impact was large, I decided to take on the job and work as a contractor / consultant.
$21,000+ saved on maintenance fees from 3rd party vendor locking.
75% decrease in page loading speed using next.js
Reliable/ Instant CI/CD through Vercel for efficient & rapid development
Project Highlights
Avita Website
Led another Engineer to develop the website, we started by performing project scoping, identifying pages that were and were not required, hosting meetings with key stakeholders and discussing wording/ regions as Avita is sold in most SEA countries (IN, HK, SG, JP, TW, MY)
We further had to handle translation work and translation routing, which is the most complicated part of the project as certain artifacts are in specific languages. Therefore we also had to reach out to the designers at Avita.
VAIO website
I planned, coded and spear-headed the entire vaio website migration alone. I mainly communicated with the head of engineering, requesting for the most up-to-date information on VAIO computers, what information should be included/excluded on which specific regions.
I had to rewrite over 10+ pages of plain HTML + CSS code into Next.js so that we can utilize vercel to deploy the website to reap the benefits of fast iterations and deployment times. I proposed to use vercel as I have had prior experience with it and believed that a website that showcases laptops, there is a potential for a lot of change so having a efficient CI/CD pipeline is extremely beneficial.
