Summary
Robin Marx is a Senior Technical Solutions Architect at Akamai with a PhD in Computer Science and a decade of experience specializing in web performance and transport protocols (HTTP/2, HTTP/3, QUIC). He blends academic rigor from postdoctoral and doctoral research with hands-on industry delivery, contributing to IETF working groups and maintaining widely used QUIC/HTTP3 debugging tools like qlog and qvis. Robin has a background building real-time and multimedia systems, game development, and tooling, which gives him a practical edge in optimizing complex, latency-sensitive web applications. Based in Hasselt, Belgium, he is as comfortable presenting at conferences and publishing peer-reviewed research as he is solving operational CDN and protocol debugging challenges for customers.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Communication and Multimedia Design, Bachelor, Communication and Multimedia Design at Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg
High School, Math, Sciences, Latin, High School, Math, Sciences, Latin at Ursula Instituut
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Universiteit Hasselt
Intern, Leadership, Intern, Leadership at The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at UHasselt
English, Dutch, French, German, Latin