Catalina Turlea
Founder at Lovelaice
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolCatalina Turlea is a founder and seasoned mobile engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling native iOS and Android products, CI/CD pipelines, and serverless backends. She has led mobile teams at scale—managing hires, mentorship, and release quality—and served as CTO and technical co-founder responsible for architecture, data, security and a 13-person engineering organization. Based in Munich, she now runs Lovelaice to help product teams build with AI by integrating non-technical experts and running systematic experimentation, alongside Creative Software which offers founder-level technical support to startups. Her hands-on background spans Swift, Kotlin, Bitrise-driven automation, AWS-managed services and serverless patterns, giving her a pragmatic blend of product sensibility and deep engineering craft. Notably, she has repeatedly transitioned apps from fragile to production-grade (including iPad universals and high-rated consumer apps), showing a focus on maintainability and reliability. She combines entrepreneurial grit with a mobile-first technical pedigree and a knack for turning complex technical debt into scalable product momentum.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Mobile Computing, Master of Science (MSc) Mobile Computing at University of Applied Sciences Upper AustriaPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
English, German, Romanian
Stackoverflow
3,486reputation
261kreached
120answers
1question
ios
top-5%
objective-c
top-5%
swift
top-5%
autolayout
top-5%
Github Skills (29)
objective-c10
ios10
urlrequest10
swift-package-manager10
networking10
urlsession10
swift10
macos10
certificate-pinning10
public-key-pinning10
alamofire10
autolayout9
oauth2-client9
xcode9
cocoapods9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
freeletics/FLTextView
May 2015 - Nov 2016
FLTextView: UITextView + Placeholder in Swift
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
swiftios
catalinaturlea/VisualConstraintsExample
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 release, 14 commits, 18 pushes in 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.