NeoSync

Founded in 2022 by Evis Drenova and Nick Zelei, NeoSync is a San Francisco-based company that has developed an open-source platform focused on data security and developer productivity. The company addresses the critical need for high-quality, safe data in non-production environments like development, testing, and CI/CD pipelines.

Evis Drenova, the CEO and co-founder, brings a diverse background in product management, enterprise sales, and consulting from his time at companies like Skyflow, IBM, and Oracle. His experience in data privacy at Skyflow and product leadership at TrueData directly informs NeoSync's mission. Nick Zelei, the CTO and co-founder, previously served as a Staff Software Engineer at Newfront, where he led the Platform Engineering team, providing him with deep insights into the infrastructure challenges that developers face. The idea for NeoSync originated from the co-founders' own frustrations with manually creating and managing inadequate test data.

NeoSync's core business revolves around a platform that empowers developers to create anonymized or synthetic data and synchronize it across various environments. This process allows companies, particularly those in regulated industries such as FinTech and HealthTech, to use production-like data for development and testing without exposing sensitive information. The platform operates on an open-source model, which allows enterprises to keep their sensitive data within their own infrastructure, addressing security and compliance concerns with regulations like GDPR and HIPAA. Revenue is generated through enterprise-grade features and a cloud-hosted version of the platform.

The platform's main service is to stream data from a source, such as a production database, transform it by anonymizing or generating synthetic data, and then sync it to one or multiple destinations. Key features include the ability to generate synthetic data from scratch, anonymize existing data using over 50 pre-built transformers, and subset data using SQL queries while maintaining referential integrity. It supports various structured and unstructured data sources, including Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, and S3. For developers, NeoSync provides a CLI, SDKs, APIs, and a Terraform provider to integrate into their existing workflows. The platform also addresses the needs of AI/ML engineers by enabling them to detect and anonymize sensitive data in LLM prompts and generate high-quality data for training models.

Keywords: data anonymization, synthetic data, data security, developer tools, open source, data synchronization, data subsetting, CI/CD testing, database management, devops