48 Hours. Automated Chaos. $15,000 in Prizes.
Deploy your distributed architecture into our shared Kubernetes evaluation cluster. Survive simulated node outages, DDoS fuzzing, and benchmark load in real time.
Live Tournament Standings
Scored continuously by our automated chaos harness. Points refresh after each chaos round.
Season 04 — Active Sprint
Round 3 of 3 · 38 Active Squads
| Rank | Team & Project | Squad Roster | Points | 24h Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Distributed Chaos Byzantine Fault Tolerant Raft Engine | Elena Rostova, Marcus Vance, Siddharth Rao | 2,840 | +180 |
2 | Kernel Panic Squad eBPF Zero-Trust Layer 7 Proxy | Liam O'Connor, Aisha Khan, Tetsuo Shima | 2,715 | +230 |
3 | ByteForge Security Automated Secret Injection Mesh | Nadia Chernova, David Kim | 2,690 | +45 |
#4 | Stack Overflowers High-Throughput Vector Ingestion Engine | Demo Member, Alex K., Riley T., Sam P. | 2,410 | +110 |
#5 | Async Awaiters Event Sourced Ledger with Snapshotting | Chloe Dubois, Kenji Sato, Mateo Silva | 2,380 | +20 |
#6 | Vector Vault Distributed Approximate Nearest Neighbor | Zoe Martinez, Arjun Patel | 2,190 | +95 |
#7 | NullPointer Inc Resilient WebSocket Pub/Sub Broker | Felix Weber, Grace Hopper Jr. | 2,050 | -15 |
#8 | Rustaceans United Zero-Allocation Stream Decompressor | Oskar Lindholm, Freja Nygard | 1,980 | +60 |
A place to build.
Build Labs are focused sessions designed around practical engineering problems. You’ll work through the problem, make architectural decisions, write the code, debug what breaks, and turn your idea into something that works.
How it works
Start with a practical engineering challenge.
Understand the problem, constraints, and what you're trying to build.
Break the problem down and start building.
Design the architecture, choose your approach, write the code, and iterate.
Move beyond a working demo.
Test your solution, fix what breaks, and get it into a usable state.
Show what you built.
Demo your work, explain your decisions, and learn from how others solved the same problem.
What we build
AI & LLMs
Build intelligent applications that actually work.
Work through generative AI workflows, multi-agent coordination, and automated reasoning pipelines.
Backend & Systems
Solve problems that require more than a simple API.
Design fault-tolerant APIs, distributed databases, transactional caches, and consensus engines.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Learn what it takes to run software beyond your laptop.
Configure container runtimes, Kubernetes operators, automated CI/CD deployments, and telemetry.
Developer Tools
Build tools that solve problems for other builders.
Build developer toolchains, CLI dashboards, code instrumentation tools, and automated lint bots.
Something you actually built.
Every Build Lab is designed to give you a tangible outcome.
A working project
Build something you can run, test, and continue developing.
Engineering experience
Practice making real technical and architectural decisions.
Something to show
Turn your work into a project, demo, repository, or portfolio piece.
People to build with
Meet other developers who are solving problems and learning by doing.
Inside a Build Lab
One problem. One session. One thing worth shipping.
The Problem
Understand what we're solving and why it matters.
The Architecture
Break the problem down and decide how you're going to build it.
The Implementation
Write the code, test your approach, and work through the hard parts.
The Demo
Show what you built and learn from other solutions.
Build a RAG system that knows when it doesn't know.
Build a document-based question-answering system that retrieves relevant information, generates grounded responses, and provides verifiable sources.
You'll work with
You'll learn
Who it's for
Students
Go beyond tutorials and build projects that demonstrate how you think.
Developers
Explore new technologies by solving problems instead of following step-by-step courses.
Founders
Turn an idea into a working technical prototype.
Engineers
Experiment with architectures, tools, and approaches outside your day-to-day work.
Don't just learn the technology. Learn how to use it.
We care less about how many tutorials you've completed and more about what you can build with what you know.
Register Your Squad
Teams of 1 to 4 engineers. Free sandboxes and evaluation cluster quotas provisioned automatically.
Rules & Evaluation Guidelines
Past Season Champions
Explore past hackathons, champion squads, and the architectures they proved under pressure.
Spring Cloud Clash 2026
Built multi-region failover database engines with sub-second replication lag.
Winter Cyber Siege 2025
Defended live infrastructure against red team automated attack swarms.
Autumn Build Sprint 2025
Constructed high-speed financial order matching engines in under 48 hours.