Yan Pujante
Owner at BoardProspects, Inc.
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolYan Pujante is a veteran software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded LinkedIn and spent over a decade shaping its scalable infrastructure, security, and deployment platforms. Now owner of pongasoft, he leads open-source development—creating Jamba, contributing notable fixes and browser integrations to the high-profile Emscripten project—and builds audio plugins and Rack Extensions for modern music production. With deep systems and back-end expertise dating back to the early 1980s and experience at CERN, Reuters, and startup roots, he blends low-level engineering rigor with product-focused creativity. Based in Las Vegas, he also pursues electronic music under NH2MF, reflecting a rare combination of infrastructure craftsmanship and artistic passion.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering diploma, Computer science, Engineering Diploma, Engineering diploma, Computer science, Engineering Diploma at Telecom ParisTechBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Lycée Charles Gide Uzes
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
glfw10
emscripten10
webassembly10
image9
intellij-idea9
java9
css9
html9
webgl8
maven6
lua6
rest6
gradle6
kotlin6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
emscripten-core/emscripten
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Emscripten: An LLVM-to-WebAssembly Compiler
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:108 reviews, 54 PRs, 294 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Yan primarily contributed to the Emscripten project by modifying the GLFW library. Their work involved fixing bugs and enhancing features related to the GLFW library, including Hi DPI support and other functionality within the JavaScript side of the project. The contributions included implementing new features like custom cursors and support for touch events as well as the addition of the new lua port. The work involved in improving the integration and functionality of the library in the browser environment.
emscriptenwebassemblycompilerwasmllvm
pongasoft/re-quickstart
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:70 commits, 33 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 2 months
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