Evgeny Golubov
Founder & CEO, Commit Offshore
Evgeny Golubov is the Founder and CEO of Commit Offshore, the offshore hiring and Employer of Record business founded in 2014. He wrote most of the guides on this site.
Commit Offshore is part of the COMMIT technology group. According to our press room, COMMIT acquired ITSoft, the business behind Commit Offshore, in August 2021 (PC.co.il, 24 August 2021, in Hebrew).
Background
Evgeny builds, scales and manages Israeli-led offshore engineering teams and AI-vetted R&D talent hubs for growth-stage startups. He works in English, Hebrew and Russian.
Career
- 2002–2005: Network Management Development Team Leader, C4I Directorate, Israel Defense Forces
- 2005–2006: OSS Engineer, TeamNetcom
- 2006–2007: OSS and BSS Solution Architect, Marathon-ISA
- 2008–2014: IT Leader and OSS Principal Consultant & Architect, JekaIT
- 2011–2013: Strategic Alliance Manager EMEA, Provectus
- 2014: Founded ITSoft to give Israeli startups dedicated offshore R&D teams and IT staff augmentation, mainly from Eastern European engineering hubs
- 2021–today: CEO of Commit Offshore, after COMMIT acquired ITSoft in August 2021
Education
- Singalovski College (1998–2000)
- Champlain College, Vermont (2001–2004)
- Clark University (2006–2007)
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Guides by Evgeny
Six guides on hiring offshore engineers, written for Israeli startups and R&D teams.
- Best Countries for Israeli Companies to Hire Developers
- Offshore vs. Hiring in Israel: The Real Cost of a Senior Engineer
- How Israeli Startups Hire Offshore Developers in 2026
- How to Build an AI Engineering Team
- LLM Engineer vs. ML Engineer: What's the Difference?
- Staff Augmentation vs. Dedicated Team vs. EOR
In the media
Op-eds, TV and podcast appearances, and press coverage. The full list is in the press room.
- Calcalist: Op-ed: when the shekel is strong and AI eats the org chart, the Israeli startup playbook has to change
- Channel 10 Israel: Bina Acheret (Alternative Intelligence): the strong shekel and how AI is rewriting tech hiring
- The Execution Gap: Podcast: closing the execution gap with offshore engineering pods
- Hidden Gems, episode 1: Podcast: the offshore talent maps founders haven't found yet
- Hidden Gems, episode 2: Podcast: from shortlist to shipped
- PC.co.il: Coverage of Commit's acquisition of Savannah Tech
- BizPortal: Coverage of Commit's acquisition of Savannah Tech
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