Vladimir Vukićević (born 29 April 1979), is a

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n-born American

software engineer Software engineering is a branch of both computer science and engineering focused on designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software applications. It involves applying engineering principles and computer programming expertise to develop ...

who has worked on many

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projects. He is known mostly for his work on open-source

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, including those used in the

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project, and for being the creator of

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Career

In 2006, Vukićević began work on a prototype

OpenGL OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a Language-independent specification, cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D computer graphics, 2D and 3D computer graphics, 3D vector graphics. The API is typic ...

3D context for the ''

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'' HTML element, which he called Canvas 3D. This work led to the creation of a "Accelerated 3D on the Web" working group within the

Khronos Group The Khronos Group, Inc. is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium of 170 organizations developing, publishing and maintaining royalty-free interoperability standards for 3D graphics, virtual reality, augmented reality, parallel computat ...

in order to create a royalty-free standard API for

and OpenGL ES 2.0 capabilities, which produced the

specification. In 2008, Vukićević publicly criticized Apple for using private

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in the Safari web browser to improve its performance, leaving third-party applications such as

Firefox Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements curr ...

without solutions for similar performance problems. Vukićević made many important contributions to Firefox Mobile/Fennec, including an

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backend for the TraceMonkey

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engine and the initial port of Fennec to Android. Vukićević also co-authored (with Stuart Parmenter) the APNG specification in 2004. Vukićević served as the chair of the Khronos WebGL Working Group, and has worked as Director of Engineering for

until 2017 where he created a prototype OpenGL 3D context in Canvas which became

. He now works as Senior Software Engineer for Emerging Technologies at Unity Technologies. In 2019, he was the company's team leader on Project Tiny, a technology to create light-weight games for the mobile industry based on WebGL and

WebAssembly WebAssembly (Wasm) defines a portable binary-code format and a corresponding text format for executable programs as well as software interfaces for facilitating communication between such programs and their host environment. The main goal of ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vukicevic, Vladimir American people of Serbian descent 1979 births Mozilla developers Mozilla people Open source people Living people Free software programmers Serbian computer scientists