Márk Szalay PhD

WORK EXPERIENCE

Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Budapest, Hungary — Assistant Professor
March 2022 – PRESENT
Lecturer and Researcher in the field of Networks, Cloud, CI/CD, DevOps, and Cloud-Native Application Development.

E.ON (external worker)
Budapest — Solution Architect
January 2024 – PRESENT
Cloud platform and on-premises application development, Feasibility Assessment, Quality Control and Oversight.

Monodon Solutions
Budapest — Cloud Architect
February 2020 – PRESENT
Cloud platform and application development, Cloud-Native concept expert and consultant.

MTA-BME Network Softwarization Research Group
Budapest — PhD student
2018 – 2021
Researching cloud compute resource and data placement methods. Implementing novel Kubernetes and OpenStack placement, scheduling modules and key-value stores.

EDUCATION

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest
January 2018 – 2022
Informatics Sciences PhD

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest
September 2015 – January 2018
Master’s degree (MSc)
Specialization: Internet Architecture and Services Specialization
Thesis: Resource orchestration and service management in OpenStack

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest
September 2010 – June 2016
Bachelor’s degree (BSc)
Specialization: Infocommunication Networks and Services Specialization
Thesis: On Network Caching Performance in Software Defined Networks

SCIENTIFIC AWARDS

PhD Student Paper Contest, 1st. Prize, IEEE Hungary Section, 2022
Budapest, Hungary, 2020

Best Paper Award, IEEE 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2021
Virtual (Chicago), USA, 2021

2nd Prize: IEEE HS Student Paper Contest PhD,
Budapest, Hungary, 2020

Best Student Paper Award, IEEE 8th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet)
Coimbra, Portugal, 2019

1st Prize in ACM SIGCOMM Student Research Competition sponsored by Microsoft,
Los Angeles, USA, 2017

PUBLICATIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA

Google Scholar profile:
https://scholar.google.hu/citations?user=ZrbIubcAAAAJ&hl=hu&oi=ao

ResearchGate profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark-Szalay

LinkedIn profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/m%C3%A1rk-szalay-3b250a208/