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title: "About Countly: the team behind private product intelligence"
description: "Countly builds the product analytics and engagement platform you can self-host. Meet the team and the mission behind private product intelligence."
url: https://countly.com/about
last_modified: 2026-11-11
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About

# A mission to put product data back where it belongs

The most important decisions about a product are made on behavioral data: what people do, where they stop, what brings them back. For most companies that data lives in someone else’s cloud, pooled with thousands of other tenants and queryable only through the vendor.

Countly started in 2012 as an open-source mobile analytics project with a simple position. Product data is infrastructure. It should live where the rest of your infrastructure lives, under your rules, in real time, with no vendor between you and your users.

That position shaped everything since. One data layer instead of three vendors and three copies of the data. Analytics, engagement and AI in the same system, so the cohort you find is the audience you message and the context your models read. Masking, consent and residency as properties of the architecture, not paragraphs in a policy.

Today more than 17,000 apps on 2,000+ Countly servers in 126 countries run on Countly, from banks and healthcare providers to fast-moving startups. We are 50+ people in 20+ countries, bootstrapped and independent, and we intend to stay that way.

Onur Alp Soner Co-founder & CEO, Countly

Team

## The people behind Countly

A small leadership group and a distributed team of 50+ people across 20+ countries, bootstrapped and independent since 2012.

- Onur Alp Soner Co-founder and CEO From an open-source analytics project, Onur bootstrapped Countly into a platform used by enterprises in regulated industries. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/onuralpsoner/)
- Arturs Sosins CTO The platform, the SDKs and the architecture sit with Arturs, so Countly runs anywhere, from a private cloud to an air-gapped network. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ar2rsawseen/) [GitHub](https://github.com/ar2rsawseen)
- Kostas Avramiotis Head of Finance and Revenue Pricing, plans and enterprise deals: Kostas looks after the numbers that keep Countly independent. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kostasavramiotis/)
- Antonin Kus Head of Design The product interface, the design system and the experience: Antonin shapes how Countly looks, works and feels. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tondakus/) [Dribbble](https://dribbble.com/tondakus)
- Barbora Koubkova Head of Marketing and Communications From the website to the Countly 27 launch, Barbora guards the Countly brand and every word Countly says in public. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbora-koubkova/)