Mikio Braun
Senior Principal Applied Scientist at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMikio Braun is a Senior Principal Applied Scientist based in Berlin with 19 years of experience bridging machine learning research and production at companies like Zalando and GetYourGuide and as a long-time academic researcher. He combines deep theoretical training (Dr. rer.-nat. in Machine Learning) with hands-on leadership—running search and recommendation engineering teams, shaping company-wide AI architecture, and currently focusing on fulfillment systems. As an entrepreneur he co-founded a real-time analytics startup and now runs Fedistats to surface trends from the fediverse, showing a pragmatic interest in streaming and social data. A frequent conference speaker and consultant, he helps organizations move ML from prototype to scalable product and has contributed to practical open-source tooling such as improving jblas’s cross-platform build and LAPACK integration.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer.-nat., Computer Science, Machine Learning, Dr. rer.-nat., Computer Science, Machine Learning at The University of Bonn
German, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
build-system10
cross-platform10
multiplatform10
lapack10
linear-algebra10
java10
fortran9
machine-learning8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jblas-project/jblas
May 2009 - Apr 2021
Linear Algebra for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:136 commits, 26 PRs, 39 pushes in 12 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mikio primarily worked on improving the build process for the library, addressing issues related to Windows and macOS compatibility. They fixed the configure script, recompiled shared libraries, and added platform-specific files. Further contributions included adding helpful messages for Windows builds and relinking against 64-bit extended LAPACK libraries, enhancing the library's usability.
lapacklinear-algebramatrix-librarymachine-learninglinear
mikiobraun/marge
Dec 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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