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David Staruch, MBA

Technology Made Simple

Data Engineer & Product Owner & IT Consultant

Innovate

Simplify

Succeed

About Me

Experienced data engineer and product owner with 15+ years in ICT, telecommunications, product development, and digital marketing automation. Expertise in data modeling, SQL, NoSQL, and graph databases, including TigerGraph and cloud-based solutions like Databricks, Snowflake, Palantir Foundry. Specialized in online identity resolution, fingerprinting, 360 data fabric, personalization, and targeted marketing, with hands-on experience in AdTech, data pipelines, and marketing automation tools.

A creative and inventive person passionate about information technology, science, and work requiring constant learning and high curiosity. Graduated Magna Cum Laude in Applied Informatics and with an MBA in Management. Certified in ITIL.

David Staruch working on data architecture illustration

Key Skills

Data Engineering & Automation

Building robust ETL pipelines, data fabrics, and AI integrations.

Product Ownership & Management

Leading product development from concept to deployment.

Integrating Business with IT

Aligning technical solutions with business strategies.

Architectural Thinking

Designing scalable, innovative data architectures.

Data Augmentation With AI

Expanding data with AI to enrich information and uncover content meaning.

Creative and Inventive

Curious thinker, finding smarter, easier ways to get things done.

Professional Experience

Abenio.com - Self-Employed

12/2025 – Present

Providing IT consulting, data engineering solutions, and product ownership for clients in communications, tech, and more.

AT&T Business

08/2025 – 12/2025

Data and AI Foundry Engineer: Research, integration, cleansing, and consolidation of data for ETL pipelines and Business Customer 360 dashboard in Palantir Foundry.

Dell Technologies

02/2022 – 07/2025

Data Engineer Senior and Product Owner: Designed 360 data fabric model using graph DB, led digital use cases for identity resolution, digital fingerprinting and marketing automation.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals Slovakia

11/2021 – 02/2022

Data Engineering and Data Modeling: Focused on ethics, compliance monitoring, fraud detection.

Dell Technologies

10/2018 – 10/2021

Data Engineer @ Data Platform: Developed Big Data ecosystem for Customer Engagement Platform, online-to-offline identity matching, big data integration and ETLs.

Slovak Telekom

10/2017 – 09/2018

Senior Segment Marketing Manager for B2B: Market research, strategy development, data and performance analytics for large and medium accounts.

Orange Slovensko

01/2016 – 09/2017

Senior Proposition and Product Manager for B2B: Headed mobile, fixed voice, IP Centrex products, analyzed market data.

Orange Slovensko

08/2014 – 09/2015

Marketing Specialist for B2C – Fixed Internet: Researched trends, led product implementation for broadband as a Product Manageer.

Orange Slovensko

09/2010 – 07/2014

Online Marketing Manager: Managed eCommerce channel, designed offers, coordinated partners.

Slovak Telekom

08/2007 – 06/2010

Product Manager for IPTV: Managed product development, roadmaps, P&L, budgets and support.

Recommendations

"David Staruch is a phenomenal Data Engineer. He is excellent at diving to the root of complex data issues and delivering a well thought out and efficient solution. He is very capable technically as well as understanding the needs of the business users and delivering more than they asked for. He is an asset to any team."

Carrie V. - Associate Director - Data AI/Engineering - AT&T, January 2026

"David is a technical talent that every company with serious deployment goals wants to have on the team. His skills in data engineering, graph databases and algorithmic thinking are sound. He is driven by chasing ideals of 'better tomorrows' and keeps pushing on innovation and progress."

Michal B. - Marketing Technology Data & Solutions architect, January 2025

"It is my pleasure to recommend David Staruch as an outstanding professional and subject matter expert in data engineering, graph databases, and product ownership. David’s exceptional leadership and technical acumen have consistently driven successful business outcomes, particularly through his ability to gather and refine requirements, engage effectively with stakeholders, and develop comprehensive models. One of David’s key strengths lies in his ability to simplify complex designs and communicate high-level concepts in a way that is easily understood by non-technical stakeholders. His clarity and approachability have been instrumental in fostering collaboration and ensuring alignment across diverse teams. David excels not only in building and developing products from the ground up but also in continuously enhancing them to meet both business objectives and technical resource considerations. His conscientious and cost-effective approach has made a significant impact, ensuring the solutions he delivers are both efficient and sustainable. Working with David has been an absolute pleasure. His innovative mindset, coupled with his dedication to achieving excellence, makes him an invaluable asset and a highly effective team player."

Alexander S. - IT Senior Program Manager, January 2025

"David is a dedicated and detail-oriented powerhouse! In our 3 years working closely together (usually from opposite sides of the planet), we stood up several iterations of a progressively more advanced digital identity mapping application that unified website visitor behavior with CRM database, and the customer intelligence and next-best-action processes that relying on that, for marketing campaign automation and data science use cases. David was integrated everywhere: analysis, design, code development, testing and optimizing, business support, automation, education, new use case speculation... and with all those things keeping him busy, he still brightened our calls with interesting updates from a variety of amusing or current topics. I also greatly appreciated his noticeable care for his stakeholders - he genuinely wants to delight his customers! In short, he adds a whole lot of measurable and perceptible value and is a great asset to have on a team or project."

Kris B. - Data Strategy & Automation, January 2022

"King of Telco, really. David is very responsible senior person, delivering good quality and output. He has sense to be pro-active, agile and leading projects with strong focus on delivery. Sometimes he was not waiting for right opportunity in right way, but with good leadership it could happen."

Juraj Š. - Head of Product Marketing, June 2018

"Excellent collaboration on many tasks. David was responsible and reliable during all his stay in Orange Slovakia."

Matus L. - Cloud & AI infrastructure Sales Executive, December 2017

"It was a pleasure and fun to work with David for the last couple of years. During this time, we worked together on multiple projects related to devices for mobile and fixed services. David is a person with a strong ownership and driving for results all the time. He is very punctual, focused on details, creative, energetic, solutions oriented and highly motivated with great communication skills. He is an asset to any company that he’s with."

Michal B. - Long-standing career in Marketing, Product Management, Procurement, Account Management within IT/Telco/Retail sectors, August 2017

"David is flexible and professional manager in Telco area. He always brings to team wide experience and knowledge in various telco segments. Especially B2B segment offers many opportunities and David is able to raise them and turn to successful products and propositions. I appreciate his professionality, positive approach to tasks and his drive is inspirational for each team members indeed. I have cooperated with David on many projects and propositions. I´ve experienced his communication and presentation skills, responsibility, reliability and perfect team support. David represents a very skilled Telco manager with strong ambitions."

Viktor R. - Senior Proposition & Product manager at O2 Business Services, August 2017

"David is very results-oriented. Work is a priority for him. Others from a distance look at his movement and the ability to take on any challenging subject, start commanding it, move it forward and clearly communicate about it. Then they follow him."

Jana D. - Optimalizácie a automatizácia v zdravotníctve, May 2017

"David is highly & self-motivated team player. Knows exactly what he wants and goes to the point. He is autonomous, responsible, qualified with wide range of overview in the online business. His carrier is headed to online marketing, on the other side, he has a wide technical overview through the online technologies. Is able to lead a project from the outline to the final and successful product. I worked with him almost 4 years on daily basis. Thanks David!"

Smutny A. - Senior Project Manager at Nexi Central Europe, a.s., March 2014

"David is an online passionate and commited to deliver brilliant results. He's able to merge very granular market understanding with commercial acumen to deliver the propositions that will appeal to customers while managing acquisition costs,time to market and corporate organisation processes. That is a rare set of expertises, and it allowed for the business to leapfrog the competition in the digital environment."

Francois C. - Commercial Operation Director at Orange Group, March 2014

Education & Certifications

Executive MBA

Pan-European University, Bratislava
The Faculty of Economics and Business
(2017–2018)

BSc Applied Informatics
(Magna Cum Laude)

Pan-European University, Bratislava
The Faculty of Informatics
(2014–2017)

Telecommunication Technology

Technical University in Košice
(2002–2003)

Electrical, Electronics & Communications Engineering

GCE Advanced, SPS Elektrotechnická, Prešov
(1998–2002)

Licensed Electrician up to 1000 V

§22, Nr. VVZ 0099/18-05 1
(2024)

Adobe Analytics - Data Workbench Advanced

(2019)

ITIL Foundation

ID 6017359.20668747 (2017)

Google Universal Analytics Advanced

(2014)

Driver's License

AM, B1, B (2004)

Community Involvement & Hobbies

I love helping the community in my free time as a former Bratislava - Ružinov councilor and member of Civic society "Zjednotená Bratislava". My hobbies include gardening, cars, and technology – check out my personal blog at www.staruch.eu.

David Staruch former councillor

Community Service

Former Councillor – Local Council Member, Bratislava Ružinov
(10/2022 – 06/2025)

Garden Radishes

Gardening

Enjoying nature and cultivating green spaces.

Modern electric car - VW ID3

Cars

Passionate about electric mobility and automotive technology.

SpaceX at NASA Kennedy Space Center

Technology

Exploring the latest in science and tech innovations. Huge fan of SpaceX.

Contact Me

I am located in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, CET timezone

Email: david@abenio.com

Phone: +421 904 24 17 17

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/staruch

Personal Blog: www.staruch.eu