Joshua Rhines

CEO & Founder

Joshua founded CubCloud AI with the conviction that every Montana business deserves access to sovereign, world-class AI — regardless of size, budget, or technical sophistication. His path to AI infrastructure runs through an unlikely background: professional audio recording. Joshua spent years engineering and producing studio-quality recordings, developing a practitioner's instinct for the relationship between hardware, signal, and output quality — an instinct that translates directly to GPU infrastructure. He leads CubCloud's strategy, business development, and enterprise relationships. Joshua is active in the Montana High Tech Business Alliance and the Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce.

Brandon Smith

CTO & Co-Founder

Brandon Smith is the CTO of CubCloud AI — the Montana born organization developing micro AI processing centers in Montana, for Montana businesses, schools, facilities, and non-profits.

As a Chief Technology Officer and film director, Brandon operates at the intersection of creative and technical disciplines. His work spans the creation and development of blockchain technologies and autonomous robotics, alongside the writing and directing of several feature films — plus contributions to over 30 others, including classics such as Austin Powers, Blade, The Lord of the Rings, and many more.

Beyond technology and entertainment, Brandon has taught at multiple universities — including Salish Kootenai College and the University of Montana — in the areas of technology, leadership, and film production.

Drew Surratt

Chief Community Officer & Co-Founder

Born and raised in Missoula, MT, Drew graduated from the University of Montana and has built his career across nonprofit organizations, politics, and the technology industry.

Drew believes in the potential of artificial intelligence to improve everyday life and sees it as an important area for future growth. Outside of work, he spends time with his family and is an uncle to six nieces and nephews.

Justin Estrada

Chief Software Officer

Seasoned traditional React Native, NextJS & LAMP Stack developer. Justin has a passion for solving complex coding challenges, Justin transforms client visions into scalable, market-ready innovations — whether e-commerce platforms, affiliate systems, or cross-platform mobile apps — with a relentless focus on quality and efficiency.

Trained by senior engineers at Acorns Grow Incorporated, Justin brings hands-on full-stack expertise that blends traditional LAMP stack proficiency with modern hybrid approaches: Headless WordPress for robust admin interfaces, React Native for cross-platform mobile, and Next.js for high-performance web applications.

Justin now being teamed up with CubCloud is on the bleeding edge of Agentic software development orchestrating Agent swarsm to achieve the impossible in interstellar technologies!

Bryce Howard

Network Engineer & Systems Admin

Experienced IT professional with deep knowledge of systems and networking, specializing in Linux-based systems, large-scale networking technology, and cutting-edge AI integrations.

Kaelan Carney

Junior Developer

Bio coming soon.

Azlyn Caldwell

Chief Research Officer

Azlyn Caldwell believes an organization comes into its own life through authorship of its own unique intelligence. As Chief Research Officer at CubCloud AI, she leads CubCloud's research function and built Research as a Service, treating research as standing infrastructure: the intelligence a company already holds, turned into strategy it can act on at decision speed.

Her work spans agentic system design, sales strategy optimization, and AI readiness indexing. She has built readiness indices that gate AI rollout behind measurable accountability, prospect-intelligence layers that surface the highest-value targets, and revenue-health scorecards built to measure AI's return. She learned to code and shipped platforms before layering AI on top. Her research covers LLM behavioral consistency and algorithmic influence on human cognition and social systems.

A fifth-generation Montanan with roots in Whitefish and a University of Montana education, Azlyn grounds her work in the place that shaped it. Her research into educational resource allocation grew out of understanding Montana firsthand, the same mindset she brings to CubCloud Community.

Will Petruski

Executive Growth Officer

Bio coming soon.

Mac Strange-Bostone

Sales