Benjamin Braun
Founding Engineer at Walrus Security
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Braun is a founding full-stack engineer at Walrus Security, leading authentication and fraud-prevention engineering to eliminate electronic impersonation in payments. With a Ph.D. from Stanford focused on OS support for durable transactions and 15 years of software experience, he blends deep systems and security research with hands-on product building. He helped launch a startup backed by Alchemist Accelerator that translates applied cryptography research into production anti-fraud technology. Comfortable across the stack, his work spans distributed systems, secure architectures, and surprisingly, computational biology and genomics research interests that inform his approach to data and integrity. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs academic rigor with startup execution to tackle hard, adversarial problems in identity and payments.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science (Honors) Mathematics (Honors), Bachelor's Degree Computer Science (Honors) Mathematics (Honors) at The University of Texas at AustinDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
English, German
Github Skills (44)
disable7
python7
multiprocessing7
deep-learning6
shuffle6
machine-learning6
caching6
pytorch6
lightning6
artificial-intelligence6
memoization6
lifecycle6
pepper5
discord-bot5
ai5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bjmnbraun/DGraph
Aug 2010 - Jun 2021
Contributions:4 releases, 11 commits, 8 pushes in 10 years 11 months
bjmnbraun/sheetjs
Dec 2020 - Jul 2023
:green_book: SheetJS Community Edition -- Spreadsheet Data Toolkit
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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