The Design Maker is the core functionality of the Printful print-on-demand platform: it's the canvas where users and clients make, tune and apply their designs on hundreds of custom apparel products and accessories. The Design Maker is packed with advanced functionalities, multiple placements for each product, a 3D viewer, mockup generation, layer management, automatic image enhancing, and dozens of other treats and life savers.

Here are some of my responsibilities in the Design Maker team:

• Key figure and reference back-end expert within the team. Highly valued team member, as highlighted during performance reviews.
• Leading key company projects and various teams of developers, including cutting edge integrations with AI tools and APIs.
• Performing technical and architectural analyses. Research, viability assessments, technical implementation documents, etc.
• Developing and maintaining multiple complex and interconnected pieces of software, ensuring good architecture, maintainability and reusability.
• Optimization of code performance, database queries and related elements. Proactive monitoring and profiling, proposing solutions and improvements.
• Writing comprehensive unit and integration tests for every task.
• Collaboration with international teams of dozens of developers within the company.
• Participating proactively in the agile processes of the team and work organization, in constant collaboration with the leads and PMs.