About Dealer Handshake
The engineers behind
Dealer Handshake.
Alex and Andrei bring 25+ years of combined engineering experience.
Their work spans cloud infrastructure, automotive AI and engineering leadership
at Microsoft, Amazon Web Services,
Lyft, EPAM and Space Auto.
The founders
Meet Alex and Andrei.
Alex Yankouski
CEO & co-founder
12+ years in engineering
- Engineering
- Architect at EPAM
Lyft and Cox Automotive
- Automotive
- CIO at Space Auto
Alex built AI for automotive sales at Space Auto. He brings that experience
to the inventory connections and agent interfaces behind Dealer Handshake.
Andrei Misiukevich
CTO & co-founder
12+ years in engineering
- Engineering
- Amazon Web Services
Microsoft, engineering contractor
- Automotive
- CTO at Space Auto
- Recognition
- 5× Microsoft MVP
Andrei built the engineering team at Space Auto. His work spans
software delivery, dealership integrations and the systems that support them.
What we build
Your systems.
Connected to AI.
Dealer Handshake Inc. builds AI connections for car dealerships.
Keep your website, inventory provider and CRM. We connect your vehicle data to compatible
AI assistants and deliver shopper-approved inquiries to your team.
Our team created Auto Agent Protocol,
an independently published open standard. We also operate
Car Handshake, where shoppers can search
inventory from dealerships that authorize publication.
Talk through your dealership’s setup.
Bring your website, inventory provider and CRM. We’ll walk through the connection.
Request a demo