About ByteFreezer

Soviet Union, 1991. The country collapsed. No money, no network, no safety net. You figure out survival fast, or you don't figure it out at all. That was my first lesson in operating without a playbook — and honestly, it made everything after that feel like a bonus round.

I built marketscreen.com in the '90s — real-time financial data when that was still hard. Sold it. Moved into security operations because that's where the data problems were getting worse, not better. Thirty years of experience later, I'm still here, still building — having way too much fun.

Elastic, Splunk, Snowflake, AWS. Deployed them all. Captured eBPF telemetry, security logs, endpoint data, network flows. Blew the budget. Every. Single. Time. The math never worked: comprehensive logging at per-GB SIEM pricing is a budget death sentence. Every CISO knows it. Most just accept it.

The insight was simple, almost embarrassingly so: keep everything, load selectively. A pre-SIEM data lake in open Parquet format. Your hardware, your storage, your rules. Send the 5-10% that needs real-time alerting to your SIEM. Query the rest from Parquet when you need it — which, in a breach investigation, is always.

So I built ByteFreezer. Not a pitch deck. Not a “what if.” Working software that solves a real problem for real budgets. The kind of thing you build when you've sat in the chair, stared at the invoice, and thought “there has to be a better way.”

Then I built the Operator network — because one person can't deploy this everywhere, and the world is full of experienced engineers who know security data inside out. Certified independent consultants who deploy and manage ByteFreezer for their clients. They build their own practices, set their own rates, and keep 100% of their consulting revenue. Real businesses solving a real problem — not a franchise, not a gig, not pets.com.

We're solving a problem every CISO has. Come build with us.