Summary
Catalina Turlea is a seasoned startup founder and hands-on CTO with over 14 years in the startup ecosystem and a track record of leading scalable, impact-focused products. As Co-founder and CTO of nilo.health, she builds the full tech stack—backend, DevOps, and frontend—for a scalable B2B mental health platform, steering technical vision while remaining deeply involved in delivery. She also builds new ventures, currently leading Lovelaice and Creative Software, focusing on AI product-building platforms and affordable founder-level technical support for startups. Beyond engineering, Catalina is passionate about mentorship, helping engineers grow, fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement, and actively advancing women in tech through mentoring and inclusive hiring. Based in Munich, Germany, she combines global startup experience with a hands-on, customer-focused approach to product and team leadership. She began her career across iOS and mobile engineering roles and holds a BSc in Computer Science from Politehnica of Bucharest and an MSc in Mobile Computing from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria.
11 years of coding experience