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Sergei Grachev

Head of Edge Cloud & AI Product Development

Sergei has been with Gcore since 2019 and leads software development for Edge Cloud and AI products. His work focuses on cloud infrastructure, edge computing, and building products that help teams run modern workloads closer to their users.

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