Dženan Zukić
R&D Engineer at Kitware Inc.
Carrboro, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDženan Zukić is a Staff R&D Engineer with 16 years of experience who advances medical image analysis, surgical guidance, and 3D/2D(+time) deep-learning tooling at Kitware. He is a longtime maintainer and contributor to the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and actively improves foundational open-source infrastructure—patching build systems, modernizing C++ filters, and stabilizing libraries in prominent projects like vcpkg and VXL. His work spans low-level performance and memory fixes to high-level algorithmic improvements, reflecting a rare blend of research-driven rigor (Dr.-Ing. in Computer Graphics) and production-grade engineering. Based in Carrboro, NC, he collaborates with universities and medical device companies to move academic algorithms into dependable clinical software. Notably, he pairs surgical- and image-analysis domain expertise with practical build-system and packaging mastery, ensuring reproducible, portable deployments.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High-school diploma, High-school diploma at Druga Gimnazija SarajevoDr.-Ing., Computer Graphics, Dr.-Ing., Computer Graphics at Universität SiegenMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at University of Sarajevo
Bosnian, English, German, Croatian, Serbian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
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package-management10
multithreading10
image-processing10
formatting10
code-standards10
build-system10
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cmake10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK
May 2010 - Jan 2023
Insight Toolkit (ITK) -- Official Repository. ITK builds on a proven, spatially-oriented architecture for processing, segmentation, and registration of scientific images in two, three, or more dimensions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3076 reviews, 920 commits, 1616 PRs in 12 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dženan primarily contributed to the ITK library's codebase by implementing bug fixes and improvements. Their work involved addressing memory issues, ensuring correct data representation in various contexts, and refactoring filters to use the new threading model and modern C++ standards, such as those in the WindowedSincInterpolateImageFunction. They also worked on general performance improvements in filters, such as the ResampleImageFilter.
pythonitkcomputer-visionopen-sciencescientific
microsoft/vcpkg
Feb 2017 - Aug 2019
C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / Library Maintainer
Back-end Developer / Library MaintainerContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 55 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Dženan primarily contributed to the integration and maintenance of third-party libraries within the vcpkg package manager. Their work involved adding, updating, and fixing issues related to specific libraries like gRPC, ITK, HDF5, and netcdf-c. They demonstrated expertise in modifying CMake build scripts and patching configurations to ensure the proper compilation, installation, and linking of these libraries within the vcpkg environment. The user addressed versioning, dependency issues, and compilation problems, improving the overall functionality and stability of vcpkg.
c-plus-plussetuptoolspackage-managermacoscplusplus
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