Catalin 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.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
2005 Informatics Expert, 2005 Informatics Expert at Universitatea „Tibiscus” din Timișoara
2001 Mathematics Physics Informatics, 2001 Mathematics Physics Informatics at Liceul Teoretic Mihai Eminescu Petrosani
Simple and flexible, css only, content placeholder loading animation. https://zalog.github.io/placeholder-loading/
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions: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.
Contributions:32 commits, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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