Evgeni Altshul
Building data systems that scale
Big Data solutions architect
CTO & Co-Founder @ Puaro Security
Big Data Solution Architect with 13+ years building enterprise data systems that stay reliable as they grow.
I connect business goals to technical work so products sit on fast, solid data processes.
Companies I have worked with
Cisco
Updated the data platform for customer operations
CTDEV
Delivered an analytics upgrade for 40M daily sessions
Dell
Scaled telemetry analytics across 30+ product lines
Waves Audio
Built data systems powering personalization in 170 countries
Tango.me
Built real-time engagement dashboards for 50M monthly users
Traffilog
Introduced predictive maintenance that cut downtime by 18%
Epam Systems
Led data platform migrations for regulated enterprise clients
Cisco
Updated the data platform for customer operations
CTDEV
Delivered an analytics upgrade for 40M daily sessions
Dell
Scaled telemetry analytics across 30+ product lines
Waves Audio
Built data systems powering personalization in 170 countries
Tango.me
Built real-time engagement dashboards for 50M monthly users
Traffilog
Introduced predictive maintenance that cut downtime by 18%
Epam Systems
Led data platform migrations for regulated enterprise clients
How I drive impact
I work with strong ownership and a practical mindset. I ship end-to-end solutions that use data for real DevSecOps outcomes.
From the blog
Notes on application security, data platforms, and AI systems in production.
Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5: Why They Were Pulled, and What Comes Next
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What colleagues say
"I had the privilege to have such a talented DBA as Evgeni in my department for 3 years. Evgeni was responsible for overseeing the design, development and maintenance of various database systems including our production environment He has a deep knowledge in various databases technologies with a special expertise with all versions of Microsoft SQL. Evgeni is very responsible, proactive, self-motivated, intelligent team player and always eager to adapt new technologies. Evgeni would be a great asset to any company"
Baruch Ozchakir
Strategic IT & Cloud Leader
Former VP IT, Amdocs
"I was lucky to work with Evgeni and I can recommend him as an excellent team player, an attentive colleague, open to any help and a responsible engineer working for results. "
Nina Bannikova
Data, Product and Business Analyst
Former colleague, ServiceNow practice
"I would totally recommend Evgeni as a highly proficient data solutions architect. He is never afraid to get down to an investigation of complex technical issues and then present the summary and solution ideas to project stakeholders. Evgeni's 'let's-do-it' attitude, combined with his vast experience, always helped with the progress and team spirit."
Dmitry Baranov
Software Architect
Partnered on real-time telemetry program
"As a Project Manager & System Analyst I've had the pleasure of working with Evgeni on many projects in the past 3 years.Among others – we have built a fully dynamic DWH for our BI application, with a flexible schema and ETL.Evgeni is a professional DBA with an open-mind and creativity, an autodidact expert in SQL Server.He is extremely kind and patient and will always do the best he can to provide the most suitable solution for your needs."
Yael Ben-Dror
Director of Business Applications & Analytics
Cross-functional partner, BI modernization
"I had a pleasure of working with Evgeni at RSA Security. As part of the cloud team we delivered several projects together. We were focused on increasing visibility & applying performance optimisations to the existing infrastructure. Evgeni's perfect communication skills allowed us to resolve cross team collaboration issues easily. His integrity & client focus allowed us to resolve cross team collaboration issues easily. His integrity & client focus allowed us to take the right decision when we were dealing with client data. Evgeni's technical leadership & deep knowledge of databases & data manipulation techniques saved us lots of hours of code optimisations."
Nikita Bugrovsky
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Former tech lead, RSA Security cloud team
"I had the privilege to have such a talented DBA as Evgeni in my department for 3 years. Evgeni was responsible for overseeing the design, development and maintenance of various database systems including our production environment He has a deep knowledge in various databases technologies with a special expertise with all versions of Microsoft SQL. Evgeni is very responsible, proactive, self-motivated, intelligent team player and always eager to adapt new technologies. Evgeni would be a great asset to any company"
Baruch Ozchakir
Strategic IT & Cloud Leader
Former VP IT, Amdocs
"I was lucky to work with Evgeni and I can recommend him as an excellent team player, an attentive colleague, open to any help and a responsible engineer working for results. "
Nina Bannikova
Data, Product and Business Analyst
Former colleague, ServiceNow practice
"I would totally recommend Evgeni as a highly proficient data solutions architect. He is never afraid to get down to an investigation of complex technical issues and then present the summary and solution ideas to project stakeholders. Evgeni's 'let's-do-it' attitude, combined with his vast experience, always helped with the progress and team spirit."
Dmitry Baranov
Software Architect
Partnered on real-time telemetry program
"As a Project Manager & System Analyst I've had the pleasure of working with Evgeni on many projects in the past 3 years.Among others – we have built a fully dynamic DWH for our BI application, with a flexible schema and ETL.Evgeni is a professional DBA with an open-mind and creativity, an autodidact expert in SQL Server.He is extremely kind and patient and will always do the best he can to provide the most suitable solution for your needs."
Yael Ben-Dror
Director of Business Applications & Analytics
Cross-functional partner, BI modernization
"I had a pleasure of working with Evgeni at RSA Security. As part of the cloud team we delivered several projects together. We were focused on increasing visibility & applying performance optimisations to the existing infrastructure. Evgeni's perfect communication skills allowed us to resolve cross team collaboration issues easily. His integrity & client focus allowed us to resolve cross team collaboration issues easily. His integrity & client focus allowed us to take the right decision when we were dealing with client data. Evgeni's technical leadership & deep knowledge of databases & data manipulation techniques saved us lots of hours of code optimisations."
Nikita Bugrovsky
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Former tech lead, RSA Security cloud team