George Stan
Verified Expert in Engineering
React and JavaScript Developer
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania
Toptal member since November 26, 2021
George is a JavaScript developer with 6+ years of experience covering a range of jobs from presentation websites to startups to enterprise-level projects. His technical stack includes strong React and Vue.js skills. George was part of a small development team responsible for the technical portion of a startup that sold for over €10 million. He has implemented MVPs, sped up performance times, optimized processes, and delivered a ready-for-market product while serving as the sole developer.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 6 years
- HTML5 - 6 years
- Sass - 6 years
- ECMAScript (ES6) - 3 years
- React - 3 years
- Vue - 2 years
- Styled-components - 2 years
- Storybook - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacBook
The most amazing...
...products I've developed are web apps for the #1 food delivery service in Romania (at the time of acquisition).
Work Experience
Senior React Developer
Confidential
- Implemented a UI/UX made for mobile on a web project, which came with various performance challenges to overcome.
- Delivered a ready-for-market product and served as the sole developer for the first six months.
- Implemented a custom animations library that took care of all web app animations.
- Developed a custom editor, drastically reducing the menu editor time from ten minutes per page to two minutes per page.
Senior JavaScript Developer
Trisoft Group
- Placed on the project 1.5 years in and promoted to primary code reviewer for the front-end team after just three months.
- Improved the existing architecture and pushed the team to write cleaner code.
- Implemented a custom Masonry library to be used for all galleries on the website.
- Assisted in developing a web app used to create both internal and marketing websites for the School of Visual Arts.
JavaScript Developer
HipMenu
- Built HipMenu with my team, a food delivery service that became number one in its category in Romania just before the competition acquired it.
- Had full front-end responsibility over end users, client restaurants, and customer support web applications.
- Developed web interfaces for end-users, client restaurants, and the customer support team using an in-house Vanilla JavaScript library and jQuery.
- Implemented a service that lazy loads React code in the existing Vanilla JavaScript library to migrate to React.
- Built a complex menu editor from scratch, which helped support the team and restaurants to edit their menus more quickly.
Junior Front-end Developer
PitechPlus
- Developed 20+ presentation websites and several web apps for clients.
- Implemented an MVP to prove the use of headless development with the new web frameworks (AngularJS, React).
- Implemented two 2D JavaScript games created in Canvas 2D.
Experience
Online Course Manager
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Informatics and Economics
Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB), Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FSEGA) - Cluj, Romania
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Vue, Node.js
Tools
Canvas 2D
Languages
HTML5, ECMAScript (ES6), Sass, JavaScript
Frameworks
AngularJS, Angular
Platforms
Docker
Storage
MongoDB
Other
Storybook, Programming, Styled-components
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