NodeShift is your private AI platform

Deploy and use generative AI securely with full control over data, models, and integrations.

Our story

NodeShift was born as a Silicon Valley love child of former Cisco colleagues Andrey and Mihai that have operated in the cloud space throughout the span of their careers.

Today, NodeShift is a USA and UAE tech company with a global team spanning across multiple countries.

Office Locations

Team Members

200+

Data Centers

Meet our team

Andrey and Mihai are cloud connoisseurs, passionate about everything infrastructure related with experience spanning Microsoft, Cisco, Twitter, Epic Games.

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 product.

Mihai Mărcuță

COO, Co-Founder

Formerly:

Oxford University alumni, with a career background from Microsoft, X (Twitter), Epic Games (Fortnite) and Cisco across San Francisco and London offices.

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.

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.

Eldar Mustafayev

Senior Software Engineer

Formerly:

Former Tesla data center infrastructure engineer, focused on designing the backend bone of NodeShift to ensure stability.

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.

Iva Mandeva

Lead Product Designer

Formerly:

Tenured UI/UX designer with who led design efforts at Cisco in California and set the design tone for Butternut Box.

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.

NodeShift so far

2023 - Intel backing and first NASDAQ Customer

Founding of NodeShift and backing from Intel Ignite, first NASDAQ traded customer secured using NodeShift GPUs.

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.

2025 - Abu Dhabi Office opened and Mubadala investment

NodeShift opens its office in Abu Dhabi and secures investment from Mubadala, Abu Dhabi Government’s investment arm.

200+

Available Locations

Spin the globe and point at the map, NodeShift is available there too.

Compliance Certificates

SOC2, ISO27001 and GDPR Compliant, with more incoming certificates.

99.99%

Worldwide Resilience

Your data is up and running even if an entire country's electricity grid goes down.

Ready to try?

The ideal way for organisations young and old to ease their way into the decentralized cloud at their own pace.

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Stay up to date with the latest updates, news, and hotfixes for our product.

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