Operational data
infrastructure for
industrial environments.
PRUiM sits between field systems, operational data sources, and enterprise platforms — normalizing, routing, and operationalizing industrial data without replacing the tools your teams already depend on. Recent work spans drilling telemetry across Pason, TOTCO, and WellSeeker, RFID asset lifecycle systems, and enterprise operational platforms.
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Built for industrial data infrastructure
Principal-led throughout. Direct ownership from scoping to deployment.
Data normalization & interoperability
Cross-vendor signal mapping and canonical telemetry across Pason, TOTCO, and WellSeeker, creating a vendor-independent operational data layer.
Edge & field computing
Offline-first applications for remote and ruggedized environments. Built in Rust for reliable operation with intermittent or no network connectivity.
Telemetry middleware
Ingestion, normalization, enrichment, and routing of live drilling telemetry into customer-owned databases, APIs, and analytics environments.
Industrial ETL & file ingestion
File-based data acquisition, transformation, and reporting for industrial systems that operate outside traditional API workflows.
Rig state detection & KPIs
Rig state classification, drilling dysfunction detection, telemetry quality scoring, and KPI delivery from live drilling telemetry.
Technical leadership
Embedded principal-level technical leadership for critical software initiatives, including architecture, platform strategy, roadmap ownership, and engineering guidance.
Operational platforms
Principal-led systems designed and deployed for real-world industrial environments.
Drilling Intelligence Platform
Principal architect of a production drilling telemetry platform designed and built from the ground up for a leading directional drilling company. The platform includes real-time EDR telemetry ingestion from WellSeeker, TOTCO, and Pason; operational workflow integrations with Oasis; a Rust/Tauri RSS edge application tested with Halliburton RSS tooling; and Azure-based infrastructure for data storage, synchronization, and analytics. Today, the platform supports more than 1,900 wells, processes over 100 million telemetry records per day, and contains more than 2.4 billion historical records across Pason, TOTCO, and WellSeeker.
Gates Sentry™ Tag & Track
Enterprise asset lifecycle platform designed and built under PRUiM's direction and brought to market through Gates Corporation. Combined RFID identification, field inspection workflows, and asset lifecycle management into a unified SaaS product for industrial hose management across distributed field operations.
From the field.
Observations from building operational systems in the physical world.
Drilling operations taught me that most software reliability assumptions are wrong.
Before working in these environments, I mostly thought about reliability in traditional software terms: service uptime, response times, infrastructure failures. Field operations introduce a completely different set of constraints.
In these environments:
That changes how you think about system design.
Offline-first reliability stops being a feature and becomes a baseline requirement.
Data validation becomes an operational concern, not just a backend concern.
Latency becomes a workflow constraint, not just a performance metric.
The systems that survive in these environments aren't necessarily the most elegant ones.
They're the systems designed to recover gracefully, handle imperfect conditions, and reduce operational friction for the people actually using them.
The same constraints show up anywhere operations happen in the physical world.
Most operational data problems are integration problems.
Not because the systems are broken. Because they were never designed to work together in the first place. In industrial environments, a single operational workflow often spans dozens of disconnected systems.
In industrial environments, a single operational workflow often spans:
Every disconnect between those systems creates operational friction.
That friction usually shows up as:
The challenge usually isn't collecting more data.
Most operations already have plenty of data.
The challenge is building reliable operational pipelines between fragmented systems, workflows, and teams.
That's where a lot of industrial modernization efforts quietly succeed or fail.
The problem with most industrial dashboards isn't visualization. It's trust.
They're designed like reporting tools instead of operational systems. A dashboard can look impressive and still fail the people using it every day.
Especially in field operations, operators quickly stop trusting systems when they have to:
At that point, the dashboard becomes another layer of operational friction instead of operational visibility.
Real operational visibility only happens when the underlying systems are designed correctly:
When operators stop maintaining side spreadsheets, that's usually when you know the system is actually working.
The interface is usually the easy part.
Building systems operators actually trust is the hard part.
Principal-led.
Operationally focused.
PRUiM (pram) — from the Dutch word for plumb. Exactly vertical. Exactly right.
PRUiM is a specialized engineering consultancy founded by Alexei Mitskevich, a principal engineer and platform architect with over 25 years of practice across oil & gas, industrial IoT, fintech, and enterprise software. The common thread across every domain is the same: designing operational systems where software meets the physical world, and turning fragmented operational data into infrastructure a business can actually run on.
The firm operates at the technical leadership level — embedded directly into engineering and operations teams as a strategic partner. Every engagement is handled at the principal level, with direct ownership of architecture decisions, platform design, and build execution.
PRUiM has designed and delivered commercial platforms adopted by Fortune 500 corporations, architected infrastructure running across dozens of remote field sites, and served as the de facto technical leadership layer for operationally critical technology programs.
Production systems currently processing more than 100 million industrial telemetry records every day.
We work with a small number of clients at a time — by design. That is how principal-level work gets done.
Operationally critical.
Technically complex.
PRUiM takes on a limited number of engagements at a time to ensure principal-level attention throughout. If your program is the kind that can't afford to fail, we want to hear about it.