Catalin Fratila
Principal Group Eng Manager at Microsoft
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolCatalin Fratila is a Principal Group Engineering Manager based in Prague with nine years of focused experience leading desktop and cross-platform communications products at Microsoft. He currently heads the Microsoft Teams Desktop team, overseeing macOS-first experiences, craft and reliability targets (including 99.9% SLA stewardship), and web/desktop notification delivery across Electron, Windows, and macOS. Catalin’s background spans full-stack engineering and systems work—from PHP and Python web back-ends to C#, .NET, Azure services and Linux kernel work—giving him fluency in both product-facing UX and platform-level integrations. He has a strong history building and coordinating Electron-based desktop clients (Skype, Teams) and working directly with upstream projects and partners like GitHub to improve internal builds and processes. A master’s-trained parallel and distributed systems specialist, he combines hands-on technical depth with team-building and operational rigor, quietly enabling large-scale, cross-platform collaboration experiences.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Colegiul National B.P. "Hasdeu Buzau"Master, Parallel Distributed Computer Systems, Master, Parallel Distributed Computer Systems at Politehnica University of Bucharest
Romanian, English, French, Czech
Github Skills (37)
javascript10
openlibrary10
electron10
windows10
v810
css10
cross-platform10
desktop10
chrome10
html10
js10
macos10
nodejs10
skype9
microsoft-teams8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cifratila/azure-web-app
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
cifratila/OfficeDocs-SkypeForBusiness
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams documentation
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
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