Ilija Puaca

Ilija Puaca is a highly skilled Senior Staff Engineer at Foursquare, with a robust background in software engineering and development. Prior to this role, Ilija served as a Founding Engineer at Unfolded and as a Freelance Developer through Toptal. With experience as a Software Engineer at The Authentic Company and a Senior Software Engineer at InsideMaps Inc, Ilija has played a key role in architecting complex processing pipelines and has worked extensively on both front-end and back-end technologies. Notable contributions include the implementation of an OpenGL rendering engine for iOS, development of a low-level Bluetooth communication API, and creation of a highly optimized uploading mechanism. Ilija began a professional journey at PSTech, where mentoring and research were integral components of development work. Education includes a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Racunarski fakultet.