Summary
Margarita Ganeva is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling backend systems, currently leading a team at Canva in Sydney. She progressed from frontend and full-stack roles to backend engineering and now team leadership, bringing deep Java/Spring expertise and a strong TDD/BDD discipline honed at fintech Tyro and enterprise products at Aspect. Margarita has driven cloud migrations, CI/CD pipelines, and cross-functional delivery—she once transitioned an on‑premise IVR product to a web/cloud platform and built onboarding pipelines with Docker and Buildkite. A pragmatic communicator with teaching experience from her university days, she pairs technical rigor with mentorship to help teams ship resilient, customer-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
Bachelor's degree, Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Informatics at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Master's Degree, Media informatics, Master's Degree, Media informatics at RWTH Aachen University
English, German, Bulgarian