Ilija Puaca
Senior Staff Engineer at Foursquare
Serbia
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Top SchoolIlija Puaca is a Senior Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently shaping core iOS and web capabilities at Foursquare from Serbia. He blends deep mobile engineering—low-level OpenGL rendering, custom Bluetooth hardware APIs, and large-scale upload pipelines—with a strong interest in 3D graphics, AR/VR, computer vision and machine learning. As a founding engineer at Unfolded and a senior developer at InsideMaps, he helped architect processing pipelines and worked across the full stack, proving comfortable from device firmware-level interfaces to cloud processing. Known for pragmatic engineering across startups and freelance engagements, he brings product-focused systems design together with hands-on implementation. A computer science graduate, he pairs technical breadth with a penchant for visual computing innovations that sit at the intersection of hardware and software.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Racunarski fakultet
English, Serbian
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Github Skills (200)
threejs10
opencv10
toolbox10
python10
image-processing10
ply10
apache-arrow10
deep-learning10
bundler10
wkt10
kepler-gl10
streaming10
jsx10
esbuild-plugin10
javascript10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
UnfoldedInc/deck.gl-native
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
C++ renderer for deck.gl
Contributions:1 release, 61 commits, 85 PRs in 3 months
cppdeckrendererdeck-glgraphics
foursquare/ocular
Mar 2021 - Apr 2023
A documentation generator for our OSS frameworks
Contributions:4 reviews, 13 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 1 month
documentation-generatorframeworksmarkdownoss
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