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

Alex Yankouski

CEO & co-founder

12+ years in engineering

Engineering
Architect at EPAM
Lyft and Cox Automotive
Automotive
CIO at Space Auto
Open standards
Founder of Auto Agent Protocol

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

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