Catalin Zalog
Senior Frontend Engineer at Neogen
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolCatalin Zalog is a seasoned Full Stack Engineer based in Bucharest with over a decade of professional experience and a 20+ year history in software, now pivoting into Computer Vision and Edge AI. He combines deep frontend mastery (React/Next.js, Vue/Nuxt, Tailwind) with backend and CI/CD expertise to deliver high-traffic, SEO-friendly platforms and resilient e-commerce systems. Currently building real-time YOLO-based object detection for IoT and embedded hardware, he bridges cloud-hosted dashboards and physical AI deployments. A pragmatic mentor and architect, he’s optimized SSR, state management, and build pipelines across multiple brands and led teams toward scalable component-driven designs. His open-source tinkering includes front-end UX-focused projects like a CSS-only placeholder-loading demo, reflecting a hands-on approach to polish and developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
2001, Mathematics, Physics, Informatics, 2001, Mathematics, Physics, Informatics at Liceul Teoretic Mihai Eminescu Petrosani2005, Informatics Expert, 2005, Informatics Expert at West University of Timisoara
English, Romanian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
front-end-development10
placeholder10
bootstrap9
loading-bar9
bootstra9
animation8
angularjs6
angular-material6
wordpress6
twitter-bootstrap6
macos6
javascript6
console6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
zalog/placeholder-loading
Jan 2018 - Jun 2022
Simple and flexible, css only, content placeholder loading animation. https://zalog.github.io/placeholder-loading/
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 177 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Catalin's primary contribution was the development and refinement of the demo application's user interface. They added a demo of a placeholder within a Bootstrap grid, and then refactored the margins to improve flexibility. Version and other demo changes were also done. Further, the user added some styling for demo headings, improving the user's demo experience.
content-placeholdercssloading-animationanimationcontent-loading
zalog/wordpress-webpack
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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