Founder Profile
Moisey Uretsky
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Moisey Uretsky holds a highly rigorous academic background in advanced mathematics, combined with intense, hands-on entrepreneurial experience in network infrastructure. Operating completely in the trenches while building the ServerStack managed hosting business alongside his brother, this massive, deeply technical background in bare-metal server management provided the precise engineering foundation required to successfully optimize DigitalOcean's incredibly efficient virtualization stack.
Founding Story
Moisey Uretsky is a prominent technology entrepreneur, investor, and the co-founder of the massive cloud infrastructure giant DigitalOcean. Emigrating from Russia to the United States as a child, he earned a mathematics degree from New York University before diving into the tech industry. In 2011, he partnered with his brother Ben and several close associates to co-found DigitalOcean, aiming to completely disrupt the convoluted cloud hosting market by focusing entirely on developer simplicity. Serving in critical technical and product leadership roles, including Chief Product Officer, Uretsky was absolutely instrumental in designing the company's incredibly popular, streamlined user interface. His massive technical contributions drove DigitalOcean's explosive global growth, eventually resulting in a highly successful public offering on the NYSE.