# Nodar Daneliya

> Nodar Daneliya is the co-founder and CEO of Shuttle, an open-source cloud platform that lets developers build and deploy backends without writing infrastructure files. A former quant trader and investment banker who taught himself the cloud, he traded London trading desks and Harvard finance classes for a Rust developer-tools company that more than 20,000 engineers now use across 120,000+ deployments. After raising a $6M seed round in October 2025, he is pointing Shuttle squarely at the messiest part of AI coding: what happens after the AI writes the code and someone still has to ship it.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Shuttle
- **Organizations:** Shuttle, Y Combinator (S20)
- **Education:** Master's Degree, Financial Analysis, London Business School, Corporate Finance and Communication, Harvard University, BSc, Economics, University College London (UCL)
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Shuttle, used by 20,000+ developers across 120,000+ deployments, Built one of the most popular Rust cloud platforms (6.9k+ GitHub stars on shuttle-hq/shuttle), Raised $6M seed in October 2025 from Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, Thomas Dohmke (former GitHub CEO) and Calvin French-Owen (Segment founder)

## Career timeline

- **2016** — Worked at Google
- **2017** — Joined The Raine Group in an advisory and private equity role
- **2017-2019** — Held roles including Chief Risk Officer, Trader and Data Analyst at Provenance Technologies; led trading at a machine-learning-driven quantitative hedge fund
- **2019** — Co-founded Shuttle and became CEO
- **2020** — Shuttle went through Y Combinator (S20 batch)
- **2025** — Shuttle raised a $6M seed round and pivoted toward AI-assisted infrastructure for vibe-coding tools

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Shuttle, used by 20,000+ developers across 120,000+ deployments
- Built one of the most popular Rust cloud platforms (6.9k+ GitHub stars on shuttle-hq/shuttle)
- Raised $6M seed in October 2025 from Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, Thomas Dohmke (former GitHub CEO) and Calvin French-Owen (Segment founder)
- Took Shuttle through Y Combinator's S20 batch
- Pioneered 'infrastructure from code' - provisioning cloud resources directly from application code

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Shuttle raised $6M in seed funding to fix the deployment gap created by AI coding tools.
- **2026-01** — Daneliya gave a CEO interview (FinSMEs) outlining Shuttle's shift toward AI-assisted infrastructure for builders.

## Links

- Website: https://shuttle.dev
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ndaneliya
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nodar_d
- GitHub: https://github.com/nodard

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Last updated: 2026-06-21