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Patrik J. Braun

24 Sport u., Iklad, 2181, Hungary ● +41 77 956 6229, +36 20 386 4162

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Engineer at Google
Zürich, Switzerland■ Software Engineer ­ Site Reliability Engineer
2020 – Present□ Product Area: YouTube, responisbility: YT Homepage and recommendations
Lecturing at BME
Budapest, Hungary■ Assistant Lecturer and Teaching Assistant positions
2010 – 2020
□ Lecturing in 7 subjects in English, Hungarian and German.
□ Main areas: JavaScript/TypeScript, Angular, Android, other client side technologies,basics of informatics and programming (C, C++)□ Supervising M.Sc., B.Sc. theses, Students projects on 39 topics, including P2P systems, network coding andweb development (PHP, JavaScript, Angular)
BME­AutSoft Ltd.
Budapest, Hungary■ Project Manager and technical consultant
Feb 2017 – Jun 2017
□ Project: VR / AR offloading to Mobile Edge Cloud for low latency 5G gaming application● Presented at CeBit’17, Germany and CES’18, USA■ Part­time Software Engineer

2014 – 2016

□ Working in a team of 3­4 people□ Main projects, available at Google Play: Alpha online, E­course teacher, E­tutor

Gravity Rock Solid Recommendation■ Junior Software Engineer

Budapest, Hungary
Jul 2013 – Sep 2013
Jul 2012 – Sep 2012
Jul 2011 – Sep 2011

● Working in a team of 3­4 people● Developing frontend in HTML5, Java and C#Other Projects□ Creator of PiGallery2 (github.com/bpatrik/pigallery2)2016 – Present● Focus: A photo gallery with heavily optimized, feature rich backend to run on a Raspberry Pi and a carefully designed UI● 46 945 LOC● Technologies: TypeScript, Angular, NodeJS, Mocha, Karma, Travis CI, Docker□ Online Calendar and Photobook editor and webshop (www.fotokonyvexpressz.hu)

2014 – 2017

● Main developer and manager● Responsible for 18 200 LOC● Technologies: PHP, TypeScript, Sql

EDUCATION
PH.D. IN COMPUTER SCIENCE – BME, TUD AND MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)■ Invited Research Fellow■ Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher

2015 – 2020
Cambridge, MA, USA
Jan 2019 – Feb 20192017 – 2018

● Group: The Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group; Supervisor: Prof. Murel Médard

□ Project 1: Constructing analytic model for studying throughput of multi­source source, single sink networks [5]● Techniques: Network coding, Hidden Markov model, Probability Generating Function□ Project 2: Designing mutli­source protocols and measuring their throughput through YouTube video downloads [4]● Measurements run for eleven months on multiple continents□ Project 3: Improving Google QUIC protocol with network coded forward error correction [1]Dresden University of Technology (TUD)■ Participating in the dual Ph.D. program between BME and TUD

Dresden, Germany● Group: Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks; Supervisor: Prof. Frank Fitzek□ Project 1: Investigating Android energy consumption□ Project 2: Study and Deployment of Mobile Edge Cloud for Tactile Internet using 5G Gaming application [7]Jul 2017 – Aug 2017
Jul 2016 – Sep 2016

● Presented at: 5G Summit’16, IFA’16, Germany and CES’17, USA□ Project 3: Network coding enhanced browser­based Peer­to­Peer streaming [2] [6] [8]● Presented at: 5G Summit’15, 5G Summit’16, Germany and CES’17, USA

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Jul 2015 – Sep 2015

Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)■ Home institute (with TUD)

Budapest, Hungary● Group: Department of Automation and Applied Informatics; Supervisor: Dr. Péter Ekler□ Focus: Network Coding, distributed systems, edge cloud systems, web applications

M.SC. IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING – BME2013 – 2015

Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)□ Group: Department of Automation and Applied Informatics; Supervisor: Dr. Péter Ekler□ Honours degree, degree GPA: 4.9 / 5.0□ Research project on investigating Android energy consumption□ Thesis: The Analysis of Distributed Data Sharing with Network Coding Technology

B.SC. IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING – BME AND KIT
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)□ Language of the program: German□ Excellent degree, degree GPA: 4.65 / 5.00
□ Research project on creating simulators for cellular networks
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)□ Part of BME­KIT dual degree program

Budapest, Hungary

2009 – 2013
Budapest, Hungary

Karlsruhe, Hungary
Oct 2011 – Feb 2012

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS (8 out of 20)
PATENTS[1] M. Médard, L. Jánoki, Patrik J. Braun, “System and Technique for Generating, Transmitting and Receiving Network Coded (NC)
QUICK UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) Packets”, PCT/US18/59340, Sep 2018.

PUBLICATIONS[2] Patrik J. Braun, A. Budai, J. Levendovszky, M. Sipos, P. Ekler, and F. H. P. Fitzek, “Mobile Peer­to­Peer Assisted Coded Streaming”,
in IEEE Access, IF*: 4.098, 2019[3] Patrik J. Braun, M. Médard, P. Ekler, “Practical Evaluation of Multisource Coded Downloads”, in IEEE Access 7, IF*: 4.098, 2019[4] Patrik J. Braun, D. Malak, M. Médard, P. Ekler, “Enabling Multi­source Coded Downloads”, in IEEE EDGE 2019, Milan, Italy,
Jul 2019.
[5] Patrik J. Braun, D. Malak, M. Médard, P. Ekler, “Multi­source Coded Downloads”, in IEEE ICC 2019, Shanghai, China, Apr 2019.
[6] Patrik J. Braun, M. Sipos, P. Ekler, F. H.P. Fitzek, “On the Performance Boost for Peer To Peer WebRTC­based Video Streamingwith Network Coding”, in IEEE ICC 2017, Paris, France, May 2017.
[7] Patrik J. Braun, S. Pand, Robert S. Schmoll, F. H.P. Fitzek, “On the Study and Deployment of Mobile Edge Cloud for Tactile
Internet using a 5G Gaming application”, in IEEE CCNC 2017, Las Vegas, USA, Jan 2017.
[8] Patrik J. Braun, P. Ekler, F. H.P. Fitzek, “Demonstration of a P2P assisted video streaming with WebRTC and Network Coding”,in IEEE CCNC 2017, Las Vegas, USA, Jan 2017.

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS (9 out of 13)
Fulbright scholarship to MIT (2018) ● Rosztoczy scholarship to MIT (2018) ● Demonstration Award at CCNC’17, Las Vegas (2017) [8] ●The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship to KIT (2011) ● 2x Fellowship granted by the Hungarian Republic (2011,2014) ● 2x Faculty scholarship at BME (2011, 2014)

OTHER
Languages: Hungarian (native) ● English (C1 certificate) ● German (B1 certificate)Technical Skills: Typescript ● HTML5 ● Angular ● jQuery ● WebRTC ● NodeJs ● Docker ● Android ● Java ● Network Coding ●UML ● GIT ● LATEX ● SQLSoft Skills: Presentation ● Management ● Leadership skills
Interests: Competitive ballroom dancing ● Photography ● Video editing ● Outdoor activities (skiing, hiking, biking, running)[updated on 2021­05­10]

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