Diana Neculai
Co-Founder at Travelfoss
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolDiana Neculai is a seasoned software entrepreneur and Co-Founder with 14 years of experience building product-led startups from prototype to scale. Based in Bucharest, she has repeatedly turned personal workflows into global products—co-founding Froala (acquired), WriteNext (acquired), Eventriffic and currently Segmio and FinancialAha—demonstrating a knack for validating markets with low-cost launches and organic growth across 55+ countries. Technically hands-on, Diana has contributed back-end code to major open-source projects like Joomla, implementing OAuth-based Twitter integrations and API client work that reflect real-world authentication and data-fetching experience. Her current work focuses on an AI-native rebuild of a privacy-first personal finance platform with month-by-month simulation and scenario discovery, blending deep product insight with applied ML. She pairs product intuition and user research learned from spreadsheet-driven validation with the engineering discipline to ship multiple generations of software. Notably, many of her ventures began as small, scrappy experiments that scaled into sustainably used tools without external funding.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 10, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 10 at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
Romanian, English
Github Skills (8)
cms10
php10
api10
apidoc10
oauth10
twitter-api10
content-management9
content-management-system9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
joomla/joomla-cms
Jun 2012 - May 2013
Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Diana's contributions primarily revolve around developing a client for Twitter authentication within the Joomla CMS. They focused on implementing OAuth 1.0a for Twitter authentication, including methods for generating request and access tokens. The user also added methods for making API calls to retrieve information from Twitter, focusing on user timelines, retweets, and other statuses. The user updated various parts of the Twitter integration, including the API paths, and made fixes to the code and unit tests.
cmsmanagement-systemjoomla-extensionsjoomla-componentphp
dianaprajescu/joomla-platform
Jun 2012 - May 2013
Contributions:238 commits in 10 months
php-applicationphpframeworkapplication-frameworkmvc
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