e commerce
Othaim Markets
E-commerce · High-traffic retail
Next.js storefront work for Othaim. Marketing publishes from Contentful; the frontend has to stay fast.
Software Engineer·2024·Remote
Othaim Markets
Context
Othaim Markets needed a content-driven storefront that could take retail traffic and let marketing change pages without a deploy.
Problem
Marketing wanted to publish from the CMS. The storefront still had to stay fast when traffic spiked.
Constraints
- —Headless CMS content model complexity
- —GraphQL query performance at scale
- —Production stability during peak traffic
My contribution
- →Developed frontend features using Next.js and GraphQL
- →Integrated Contentful CMS for dynamic content rendering
- →Optimized UI performance for high-traffic usage patterns
Solution
Next.js App Router frontend with GraphQL API layer and Contentful as the content source of truth for merchandising and marketing teams.
Results
- ✓Enabled non-technical teams to publish content without engineering bottlenecks
- ✓Improved frontend performance for high-traffic retail scenarios
- ✓Maintained production stability through iterative optimization
Stack
Next.jsReactGraphQLContentfulTypeScript