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Fast ideas, late nights, strange prototypes, and some wonderful teams. Here are a few things we built together.

01 / THE BUILDS

Experiments in the wild

01 / 2026
AeroShield — 2nd Place

EDTH Sofia

Took 2nd place at the European Defence Tech Hackathon in Sofia with AeroShield, a software wind filter for acoustic drone detection. Eight microphones listen together: wind hits each one differently while a distant drone reaches them all the same way, so the filter keeps what they agree on. On far-away drones in strong wind it lifted detection from a coin flip (0.48) to 0.82, so existing detectors hear a drone about 1.9× farther. Built as a drop-in software upgrade for microphone arrays already in the field, with a live before/after listening demo.

PythonDSPMicrophone ArraysReactDefense Tech
2ndplace
200+participants
Sofialocation
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02 / 2026
Defense Tech Track — Hacker

BUILDARENA Hackathon

Built a self-navigating interceptor rocket as a counter-UAS defense mechanism at this European defense tech hackathon in Stockholm. The rocket is catapult-launched and autonomously navigates toward aerial targets — using a red balloon as a proof of concept. The system runs on a Raspberry Pi with a flight controller, processes live camera feeds to detect and track the target via UDP, and outputs real-time steering commands through operational modes (Search, Track, Approach, Capture). Extensive 3D-printed mechanical components for the airframe and fin mechanisms. 90+ hackers from across Europe, organized by Techarena, European Defence Tech Hub, and Inflection Fund.

GoPythonRaspberry PiFlight Controller3D PrintingComputer VisionDefense Tech
90+hackers
Stockholmlocation
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03 / 2025
Team 443 — 1st Place Winner

Hack TUES 11

Won first place at Bulgaria's largest student-organized hackathon with a telesurgery platform enabling remote surgical operations from anywhere in the world. The system features a multifunctional robotic instrument holder with integrated camera, real-time VR visualization for the surgeon, and WireGuard VPN for secure low-latency communication, hosted on AWS. Built with teammates Aleksandr Mechkarov, Todor Kolev, and Hristiana Angelova, mentored by Maria Tsvetkova. The hackathon's theme was "Hack the Wealth" with 360 participants across 77 teams at Sofia Tech Park.

PythonFlaskAWSWireGuardVRTerraform3D Printing
1stplace
360participants
77teams
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04 / 2024
Platform Developer & Organizer

Hack TUES X

Built the entire web platform for Bulgaria's largest student-organized hackathon (10th edition). The platform handled participant registration, team management, and integrations with Google Cloud, Gmail API, Discord, and GitHub. Over 400 students in 70 teams, 70 mentors, 35 jurors, and 30 IT companies participated.

Next.jsPostgreSQLDrizzleORMGoogle CloudGitHub APIDiscord API
70+teams
400+participants
1,500+commits
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05 / 2024
Team from TUES — 2nd Place

Голямото Schwarz междучасие

Won 2nd place with Kashu — a mobile app that optimizes in-store supermarket shopping by calculating the shortest possible path from entrance to checkout while completing your entire shopping list. Built with a team from TUES using React Native (Expo) for the mobile app and a Python/Flask backend for pathfinding, containerized with Docker.

React NativeExpoPythonFlaskDocker
2ndplace
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06 / 2024
Platform Developer

TUES Fest 2024

Developed the web client for TUES Fest 2024 — the annual showcase event for TUES. Built features including projects registration, Cloudflare R2 integration for media storage, and performance optimization.

Next.jsTypeScriptCloudflare R2Vercel
438commits
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