Network Engineer
1990s
IP/IPX protocols, sysadmin, corporate infrastructure
IT Entrepreneur · Saint Petersburg
Maxim Kulgin
Systems. Data. Defense.
30+
yrs
7
products
3
books
20M+
parsed
No success theater. No marketing fluff. Real revenue numbers, real mistakes, real operating decisions.
Career Path
From Networks to Ecosystem
Author
1998–2003
3 engineering books on network infrastructure published
Director
2000s
Built and managed large online retail operations
SaaS Founder
2010s
Launched clickfraud.ru, xmldatafeed.com, offlinecrm.ru
Product Portfolio
2020s
40M+ RUB/year revenue, FSI state grant, data & defense products
30+
Years in IT
3
Engineering books
40M+
RUB revenue / year
4
Active products
Areas of Practice
What This Journal Covers
Data & Parsing
Web scraping, price monitoring, data feeds — built at scale
Traffic Defense
Click fraud protection and anti-bot systems for advertisers
Internet Systems
Infrastructure thinking applied to modern products
Bootstrapped Growth
From 0 to 40M+ revenue/year without venture capital
Journal
Recent notes
20M Rubles a Year on Web Scraping
How an engineering team turned a parsing infrastructure into a sustainable B2B business collecting only public data. Real revenue breakdown, client structure, and legal framework.
From 0 to 430,000 RUB/Month. SaaS in Russia, Slowly
A month-by-month account of growing a SaaS product in Russia without venture capital or paid advertising. Including the failures, the plateaus, and what actually moved the needle.
How clickfraud.ru Won an 8M Ruble State Grant
We applied to the Foundation for Innovation Assistance and won. Here is how we evaluated the market, structured the application, and defended the project before technical experts.
Inside a Click Fraud Detection System
How clickfraud.ru uses machine learning and behavioral analysis to separate real clicks from bot traffic. Architecture, signals, and the ongoing arms race against fraudsters.
Ecosystem
Active Products
Active
clickfraud.ru
Click fraud protection for Russian advertisers. Machine learning + behavioral analysis.
Traffic Defense
Active
xmldatafeed.com
Web scraping and price monitoring at scale. 20M+ RUB/year revenue.
Data & Parsing
Active
tapki.com
Product search engine with Elasticsearch.
Search & Catalogs
Active
notissimus.com
Mobile app development studio.
DevelopmentNo success theater. No marketing fluff. Real revenue numbers, real mistakes, real operating decisions.
— bezsmuzi channel — guiding principle