Ioana Manea
Full-Stack Engineer
Romania
Experience
Full-Stack Engineer
2025 - Present — Remote
- Joined as a Frontend Developer and grew into a Full-Stack Engineer role.
- Own the full-stack application end to end, working across the frontend and backend.
Full-Stack Engineer
2024 - 2025 — Romania
- Transitioned from a frontend-focused role into full-stack development, contributing across the stack from Terraform and GCP infrastructure to Next.js and TypeScript frontends.
- Completed an in-depth full-stack engineering program covering the entire app delivery pipeline.
Frontend Team Lead
2022 - 2024 — Germany
- Sole frontend owner, staffed through Linnify, on a data collection and analysis AI tool for fintech.
- Migrated a tightly-coupled monolith into a micro-frontend architecture with Webpack Module Federation, taking ownership of the restructured platform.
- Interviewed and mentored new frontend hires, and documented team processes, architecture, and onboarding guides.
- Set up the team's coding standards with Husky and ESLint, wrote end-to-end tests with Cypress, and built a component library with Storybook and Chakra UI.
Frontend Engineer
2021 - 2024 — Romania
- Built web applications for international teams, strengthening communication, leadership, and delivery skills.
Frontend Intern
.msg systems (opens in a new tab)
2020 — Romania
- Worked with React in a full-stack team to build a responsive web platform.
Education
Software Engineering | Master's Degree
Babeș-Bolyai University
2021 - 2023 — Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Computer Science | Bachelor's Degree
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
2017 - 2021 — Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Personal projects I'm currently working on
MyDishionary
A personal recipe collection app — TanStack Start on Cloudflare Workers, a Hono API with Claude-powered recipe extraction, Drizzle ORM over Postgres, and Better Auth.
MyBindery
A personal library for sewing patterns — TanStack Start, tRPC, Drizzle, and Better Auth. Import and view PDF patterns, organize them into folders and albums by designer, and track notes on finished makes.
Homelab
Turned an old laptop into a self-hosted home server — Proxmox virtualization, Docker, and Caddy for automatic HTTPS, with hardware-accelerated media transcoding and secure remote access via Tailscale.
Dotfiles
Personal macOS setup managed with chezmoi — one command provisions a fresh machine: Homebrew, macOS defaults, terminal and editor config, and an encrypted manual-steps doc for the rest.
Skills
Backend
Cloud & Databases
Frontend
Languages
Styling
Testing
Tools
Languages
Romanian, English