Emir Pasic
Head Of Backend & ML Engineering at ArtSoft
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Top expert inGo Programming Ecosystem and Distributed Systems Technology
Emir Pasic is a seasoned technology leader with nearly two decades of experience building and scaling backend, ML and full-stack systems, currently heading Backend & ML Engineering at Layla AI. He combines hands-on architecture and engineering leadership—having led teams of 30+ and delivered global products—with deep expertise in cloud-native, serverless and data-warehouse architectures. Recently he’s focused on applied LLM and generative-AI solutions, shipping multi-platform chatbots, itinerary generators and recommender engines integrated with 20+ external APIs. Emir is also the author of GoDS, a popular open-source Go data-structures library with 15k+ GitHub stars, reflecting his low-level engineering chops and community impact. His academic background spans multiple countries with an MSc in data mining and quantitative analysis, and he often blends classical ML methods with production-focused system design. Pragmatic and curious, he pairs research-grade ML knowledge with decades of operational experience in performance, security and internationalized product delivery.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Information Technology Data-mining Data Warehousing Quantitative Analysis and Meta-Analysis, MSc Information Technology Data-mining Data Warehousing Quantitative Analysis and Meta-Analysis at Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for InformaticsBSc (Hons) Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science at University of Pretoria 
English, German, bosnian / croatian / serbian, Japanese, Latin
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Github Skills (14)
data-structures10
algorithms10
go10
red-black-tree10
data-structure10
testing10
btree7
java6
versioning6
npm6
javascript6
pool6
jetty6
garbage-collection6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
emirpasic/gods
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
GoDS (Go Data Structures) - Sets, Lists, Stacks, Maps, Trees, Queues, and much more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Structures Engineer
Back-end Developer & Data Structures EngineerContributions:25 releases, 4 reviews, 403 commits in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Emir primarily focused on implementing and testing various data structures, including a red-black tree implementation. Their contributions involved adding core functionalities such as Get, Put, Remove, Iterator, and serialization. The user also designed and implemented the comparator and related tests and examples.
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emirpasic/made-in-bosnia
Feb 2019 - Oct 2023
🇧🇦 A list of cool projects made in Bosnia.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
bosnia
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