Andrey Surkov
CEO, Co-Founder
Formerly:
Rocket scientist by degree, spent the entire career at Cisco in San Francisco working on one of Cisco’s leading revenue generating products.
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Our story
NodeShift was born as a Silicon Valley love child of former Cisco colleagues Andrey and Mihai that have operated in the private AI space throughout the span of their careers.
Today, NodeShift is a USA and UAE tech company with a global team spanning across multiple countries.
- 2Office Locations
- 20Team Members
Meet our team
Andrey and Mihai are cloud connoisseurs, passionate about everything infrastructure related with experience spanning Microsoft, Cisco, Twitter, Epic Games.
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Mihai Mărcuță
COO, Co-Founder
Formerly:
Oxford University alumnus, with a career background from Microsoft, X (Twitter), Epic Games (Fortnite) and Cisco across San Francisco and London offices.
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Konstantin Rasskazov
Head of Engineering
Formerly:
Seasoned engineering lead, spent his entire career at Cisco in Silicon Valley, directly impacting revenue generating projects at Cisco.
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Emma Mkrtchian
Head of Marketing
Formerly:
Previously responsible for scaling CUDOS in the decentralized infra space, growing the company to a community of hundreds of thousands.
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Eldar Mustafayev
Senior Software Engineer
Formerly:
Former Tesla data center infrastructure engineer, focused on designing the backend bone of NodeShift to ensure stability.
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Artem Zhvalyuk
Senior Software Engineer
Formerly:
Backend expert when it comes to Platform-as-a-Service with hands on experience working in physical data centers.
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Iva Mandeva
Lead Product Designer
Formerly:
Tenured UI/UX designer who led design efforts at Cisco in California and set the design tone for Butternut Box.
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Aleksandr Poliakov
Software Engineer
Formerly:
First engineer at NodeShift that built his talents in-house and became a core part of the NodeShift engineering team.
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NodeShift so far
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2023
Intel backing and first NASDAQ Customer
Founding of NodeShift and backing from Intel Ignite, first NASDAQ traded customer secured using NodeShift GPUs.
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2024
Funding from Notion Capital and Oxford University
NodeShift secures seed funding from Notion Capital, Oxford University, Arca, Inovo, Kestrel0×1 to build a decentralized cloud for AI.
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2025
Abu Dhabi Office opened and Hub71 investment
NodeShift opens its office in Abu Dhabi and secures investment from Hub71, Abu Dhabi Government’s investment arm.
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2026
Major partnership with G42 and a new office in Qatar
NodeShift expands its presence in the region through a new investment and partnership with Presight (a G42 company) and opens a new office in Qatar.
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