Ziga Besal
Senior IOS Engineer at Speak
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Top SchoolZiga Besal is a Senior iOS Engineer based in Ljubljana with 11 years of hands-on experience shipping mobile apps across startups and product teams. He has progressed from Android and full‑stack roles into lead iOS and AR engineering positions, bringing practical expertise in ARKit, CoreML, CoreData and CI/CD to consumer and health-focused products. Ziga has held staff and senior roles at Beat and now drives iOS development at Speak while running his own consultancy, showing both team leadership and independent delivery. His background includes building speech-therapy and education technology, reflecting a strong interest in impactful, user-centered apps. Comfortable with dependency management and release engineering, he also contributes to startup ecosystems from mentoring to event organization. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs cross-platform experience with a knack for turning research-grade frameworks into production features.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Computer Science, High School, Computer Science at Šolski center Novo mestoBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science
English, German, Slovenian, Croatian
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Github Skills (21)
unit-test10
ios9
transition8
forum8
animation8
svg7
swift7
vector-graphics6
playgrounds6
drawing6
nextjs6
javascript4
ios-animation4
wwdc4
macos4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ekranac/futer
Oct 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:81 pushes, 15 branches, 10 tags in 1 year 10 months
smartninja/forum
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
Forum for SmartNinja (deprecated)
Contributions:40 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
forumnextjs
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