30+
Years in IT
IT Entrepreneur · Saint Petersburg
Maksim Kulgin
Systems. Data. Defense.
30+
yrs
7
products
3
books
20M+
parsed
No success theater. No marketing fluff. Real revenue, real mistakes, real outcomes.
Career Path
From Networks to Ecosystem
1990s
Network Engineer
IP/IPX protocols, sysadmin, corporate infrastructure
1998–2003
Author
3 engineering books on network infrastructure published
2000s
Manager
Built and managed large online retail operations
2010s
SaaS Founder
Launched clickfraud.ru, xmldatafeed.com, offlinecrm.ru
2020s
Ecosystem Builder
40M+ RUB/year revenue, state grants, data & defense products
3
Engineering books
40M+
RUB revenue / year
5
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
clickfraud.ru
Traffic Defense ActiveClick fraud protection for Russian advertisers
Detects and blocks invalid clicks on contextual ads. Protects advertising budgets from competitor bots, click farms, and automated fraud. Uses machine learning + behavioral signals.
Machine Learning
Behavioral Analysis
API
xmldatafeed.com
Data & Parsing ActiveWeb scraping and price monitoring at scale
Automated collection of pricing data, product catalogs, and competitor information. Built for e-commerce operators who need clean, structured data without building their own infrastructure.
Web Scraping
Data Pipelines
XML/JSON APIs
No success theater. No marketing fluff. Real revenue, real mistakes, real outcomes.
— bezsmuzi channel principle