Learning by doing and sometimes breaking apart
Cybersecurity student · NTNU Trondheim · 2025-2028
Technical Product Lead at Valgrin · Project lead at Cogito NTNU
Research, outreach and pitching to Norwegian SMBs, then designing, securing and shipping the systems the companies need
Co-leading Cogito's AI security project: weekly hands-on workshops, with focus on academic understanding, attacking and securing AI systems (MITRE ATLAS). Building towards the AI-oriented security CTF event
Together in a team built, tested and presented the real time computer vision exercise classification gym assistant that can give recommendations on exercise technique and save the progress of each session
Ran my own studio for 3D and motion: creative, automotive and commercial visuals, from brief to delivery. Collaborating with other Norwegian based designers on large commercial productions. Developing and implementing AI-augmented production pipelines
Aug 2026 -
Co-leading Cogito's AI security project: weekly hands-on workshops, with focus on academic understanding, attacking and securing AI systems (MITRE ATLAS). Building towards the AI-oriented security CTF event
Apr 2026
A three-node k3s cluster on a repurposed EliteBook. Provisioned with Terraform and Ansible, delivered by ArgoCD, watched by Prometheus and Grafana.
Apr 2026
Eighteen weeks of infrastructure work at NTNU: a domain built from scratch with OUs, GPOs and DFS replication, PowerShell automation throughout, and a full Azure cloud track.
Feb - May 2026
Computer-vision system that reads gym movement and gives real-time feedback. MediaPipe and BlazePose for pose tracking, Random Forest for classification.
Feb 2026
HSTS with a two-year preload, a same-origin Content Security Policy with its concessions documented, and a permissions policy denying camera, microphone and geolocation.
Top 25 in the under-23 category out of 3,100 entrants. Sixty-nine hours on the Tripletex challenge - an agent that completes real accounting tasks, not a demo that looks convincing in a screenshot.
Colour grading and video editing for the live broadcast of Norway's long-distance sled dog race, plus filming on location.
Led the winning team.
§06 - Contact
Trondheim and Oslo
Open to security engineering / AI-security internships and research collabs — email or LinkedIn.
kochurra.ivan@gmail.comKyiv → Trondheim
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