Stefan Neculai

Bucharest, Romania

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Stefan Neculai is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 14 years of experience, best known for founding and bootstrapping Froala to $1M+ annual revenue and selling it to Idera while winning Fortune 100 customers. Based in Bucharest, he combines deep front-end expertise—particularly in rich-text editors—with pragmatic product instincts, having driven core development and integrations for the popular Froala WYSIWYG projects across React and Angular. He’s hands-on in fixing tricky editor bugs, improving compatibility across frameworks, and enabling seamless editor initialization and event handling. Stefan’s technical roots in computer science and long-term stewardship of a production open-source editor reveal a rare mix of entrepreneurial grit and engineering craftsmanship.

14 years of coding experience

Colegiul National "Gheorghe Rosca Codreanu"

Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 10, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 10 at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București

French, English, Romanian

Github Skills (22)

javascript10

integrate10

text-formatting10

integrations10

webpack10

front-end-development10

system-integration10

webpacker10

react10

text-format10

angular10

editor9

text-editor9

html-editor9

ckeditor9

Programming languages (15)

MDXC#CSSScalaVueHTMLTypeScriptShell

Github contributions (5)

froala/react-froala-wysiwyg

Aug 2016 - May 2019

React component for Froala WYSIWYG HTML Rich Text Editor.

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:25 releases, 73 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 9 months

Contributions summary:Stefan primarily focused on integrating and adapting the Froala WYSIWYG editor component within a React application. Their commits demonstrate the creation and modification of React components to utilize the editor on different HTML tags (e.g., textarea, img, button). They updated the component for use with webpack, implemented manual initialization and binding, and showcased the integration with various editor configurations. These changes emphasize the user's proficiency in using and extending the Froala editor within a React environment.

froalareact-componentrich-text-editorwysiwyg

froala/wysiwyg-editor

Feb 2014 - May 2019

The next generation Javascript WYSIWYG HTML Editor.

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:57 releases, 2407 commits, 29 PRs in 5 years 4 months

Contributions summary:Stefan's commits primarily focus on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Froala WYSIWYG editor, as evident from the commit messages referencing specific issues. The code changes involve modifications to the JavaScript and minified JavaScript files, including bug fixes related to text formatting, list handling, and image manipulation. The user's contributions aim to improve the overall user experience and stability of the editor.

html-editorjavascriptwysiwygwysiwyg-editorrich-text-editor

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