Dragoș Străinu is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building front-end driven products, currently contributing to Planable and co-building the startup cofeed-19. He has front-end engineering experience at Amazon and hands-on startup experience from GoParrot and Kickly, giving him a strong mix of scale-aware practices and rapid product iteration. Active in open source, he has contributed collaborative editing and UI fixes to Facebook's popular Lexical editor, demonstrating expertise in rich-text interactions and realtime collaboration. Educated in Information Technology with an Erasmus exchange in computer science, he blends formal training with practical international exposure. Known for shipping user-facing polish and collaboration features, he often focuses on cursor/display UX and editor state consistency—details that make collaborative tools feel reliable.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Exchange, Computer Science, Erasmus Exchange, Computer Science at Universität Siegen
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei
Lexical is an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 commits, 13 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dragoș primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Lexical text editor framework. They focused on integrating and enhancing collaborative features, including adding initial editor state for the LexicalCollaborationPlugin and improving cursor display and customization. Further contributions involved addressing issues related to the user interface, such as fixing the TypeaheadMenuPlugin's scroll behavior and correcting paragraph insertion in the MarkNode.
Contributions:48 commits, 34 PRs, 51 pushes in 8 months
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