Cătălin Torge
Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCătălin Torge is a software engineer with eight years of experience building user-facing applications and creative tooling, currently at Meta after a four-year engineering stint at Cisco. He blends front-end expertise—demonstrated by maintaining and refactoring a popular React Native animated navigation tab bar—with a designer’s sensibility from founding a boutique creative agency. Based in London and trained at King’s College, he excels at improving UX details like orientation handling, back-button animations and color tint issues that often go unnoticed. Comfortable shipping across platforms, he pairs a strong practical engineering background with interests in photography and visual arts that inform polished, human-centered interfaces.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at King's College LondonRomanian Bacalaureat Matematică și informatică, Romanian Bacalaureat Matematică și informatică at National College Simion Barnutiu
English, French
Github Skills (14)
javascript10
react-native10
react-navigation10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
ios8
mobile8
android-development8
android8
mobile-development8
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
torgeadelin/react-native-animated-nav-tab-bar
Jun 2019 - Sep 2022
A simple and customisable React Native component that implements an animated bottom tab bar for React Navigation.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 2 reviews, 94 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Cătălin primarily contributed to the development of the React Native animated tab bar component. Their work includes fixing bugs related to screen orientation changes and Android back button animations. They refactored the code to align with React Navigation 5 guidelines and addressed issues with tint colors, also upgrading the example project and adding demo visuals.
react-native-componentreact-navigationtabbar
torgeadelin/catalinn.com
Nov 2019 - Feb 2021
Personal Website
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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