I am a software engineer from Berlin, Germany. I enjoy learning and applying my knowledge in product and platform engineering, particularly in backend development, distributed systems and infrastructure.
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VolgaCTF 2025 Qualifier: report
On March 29-30th, VolgaCTF.org team held its annual qualifier event, namely VolgaCTF 2025 Qualifier.
VolgaCTF 2024 Qualifier: report
On March 30-31th, VolgaCTF.org team held its annual qualifier event, namely VolgaCTF 2024 Qualifier.
VolgaCTF 2023 Qualifier: report
On May 13-14th, VolgaCTF.org team held its annual qualifier event, namely VolgaCTF 2023 Qualifier.
VolgaCTF 2022 Qualifier: report
On May 14-15th, VolgaCTF.org team held its annual qualifier event, namely VolgaCTF 2022 Qualifier.
VolgaCTF 2021 Qualifier: report
On the weekend VolgaCTF.org team held its tenth qualifier event, namely VolgaCTF 2021 Qualifier. Significant changes were brought about this year:
- The event duration was reduced from 48 to 24 hours. Managing a 2-day competition is too hard for such a tiny team.
- Static scoring gave way to dynamic one (in accordance with CTF Design Guidelines).
- Sign in/up with CTFtime.org was implemented.
VolgaCTF 2020 Qualifier: key metrics, part 2
VolgaCTF 2020 Qualifier: key metrics, part 1
March 2020 was marked with lockdowns all over the globe. Nonetheless VolgaCTF.org team held VolgaCTF 2020 Qualifier event, which started on March 27th and lasted 48 hours. That was the ninth qualifier event in the history of VolgaCTF and now we would like to share some key metrics that were collected during the competition this year. The data is compared against VolgaCTF 2019 Qualifier.
VolgaCTF 2019 Qualifier: key metrics, part 2
VolgaCTF 2019 Qualifier: key metrics, part 1
March 2019 definitely appeared to be a CTF month for VolgaCTF.org team. On March 29th at 15:00 UTC we started VolgaCTF 2019 Qualifier event, which lasted 48 hours. That was the eighth qualifier event in the history of VolgaCTF and now we would like to share some key metrics that were collected during the competition this year.
Building a minimal Vagrant box
In this post I am going to come up with some ideas for building a minimal Ubuntu Server Vagrant box for Virtualbox with Packer as well as present some results based on them.
VolgaCTF 2018 Quals: key metrics, part 2
VolgaCTF 2018 Quals: key metrics, part 1
On the weekend VolgaCTF.org team launched an annual competition series by holding a VolgaCTF 2018 Quals event. The contest started on March 23rd at 15:00 UTC and lasted 48 hours. It went quite smoothly and we would like to share some key metrics that were collected during the event.
VolgaCTF 2017 Quals: key metrics
VolgaCTF.org team held VolgaCTF 2017 Quals competition during the weekend. It started on March 24th at 18:00 and ended on March 26th at 18:00 (Moscow Time).
VolgaCTF 2017 Teaser: key metrics
On February 25 VolgaCTF.org team held VolgaCTF 2017 Teaser competition.