Company Description
Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: GDYN) is a technology consulting and digital services company focused on enterprise-level AI, platform and product engineering, and digital engagement services. The company works with large enterprises undergoing business transformation, combining technical vision with business acumen to address complex technology challenges and support positive business outcomes.
Grid Dynamics operates in the information sector, within the data processing, hosting, and related services industry. According to company disclosures, it provides technology consulting, platform and product engineering, AI, and advanced analytics services. It delivers tailored solutions across multiple industry verticals, including retail, technology, media and telecom (TMT), finance, consumer packaged goods (CPG), manufacturing, healthcare and pharma, and other sectors. Retail is described as the company’s largest vertical, with finance and TMT also contributing a significant share of revenues in recent reporting periods.
Founded in 2006, Grid Dynamics is headquartered in Silicon Valley and maintains offices across the Americas, Europe, and India. Its common stock trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol GDYN, as confirmed in its SEC filings. The company emphasizes enterprise AI as a key area of specialization, highlighting years of experience and leadership in this field, supported by investment in data and machine learning platform engineering, cloud platform and product engineering, Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing, and digital engagement services.
Business model and service focus
Grid Dynamics positions itself as a partner for enterprise digital transformation and AI adoption. Its business model centers on providing consulting and engineering services that help clients modernize applications, build and operate data and ML platforms, develop digital products, and implement AI-driven solutions. Company materials describe its role in solving pressing technical challenges for enterprise customers and enabling them to pursue innovation-centric initiatives.
The company reports that its AI and data practices have become an important component of its business, contributing a notable share of organic revenue and growing faster than its overall organic business in recent periods. Grid Dynamics also notes strong demand from fintech customers, large technology clients, and enterprises in retail, CPG, manufacturing, and other verticals, reflecting its focus on enterprise-scale projects.
Industry verticals and client focus
Grid Dynamics discloses that it delivers tailored solutions across several verticals, including:
- Retail – identified as the largest revenue-contributing vertical in multiple quarterly results.
- Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) – highlighted as a major and growing vertical, at times surpassing finance.
- Finance – including fintech clients, with strong growth noted in recent quarters.
- Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and Manufacturing – supported by contributions from acquisitions.
- Healthcare and Pharma – contributing a smaller but disclosed share of revenues.
- Other verticals – representing additional industries served.
Across these sectors, the company emphasizes enterprise customers, including Fortune 1000 enterprises, and positions its offerings to support large-scale, complex technology environments.
AI and data platform capabilities
Company communications describe a strong focus on enterprise AI. Grid Dynamics highlights years of experience and leadership in AI for large organizations, supported by expertise in data and ML platform engineering. Its work includes building modern, governed data foundations and AI platforms that can support experimentation and production-scale deployments.
Grid Dynamics has announced a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), extending a long-standing relationship. Through this agreement, the company participates in the AWS Data Foundations for Generative AI Program, which is designed to help enterprises build robust, governed, high-quality data infrastructures required to adopt and scale generative AI. Grid Dynamics states that, by combining AWS cloud-native data and AI services with its own expertise in data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML, it aims to help enterprises move from AI experimentation to full-scale production.
As part of this collaboration, Grid Dynamics describes offerings such as data strategy and readiness assessments for generative AI, accelerators and frameworks for rapid deployment of data infrastructures on AWS, end-to-end AI solutions for iterative model refinement and customization, and ongoing optimization services for data and AI operations.
Agentic AI and robotics initiatives
Grid Dynamics has also disclosed initiatives around agentic AI platforms and robotics. In collaboration with Temporal Technologies, the company launched a Temporal Agentic AI Platform that enables enterprises to build, deploy, and manage large numbers of AI agents and workflows. According to company statements, this platform leverages Temporal’s durable execution capabilities to address challenges such as managing long-running, complex AI workflows, ensuring fault tolerance, and maintaining state across distributed systems.
Key features described for the Temporal Agentic AI Platform include reliable AI workflows that can resume after failures, scalable orchestration for thousands of agents, enhanced observability for AI-driven processes, simplified development by abstracting distributed systems complexity, and integrations with common enterprise systems such as CRM, ERP, and data management tools.
In the area of robotics and smart manufacturing, Grid Dynamics has reported work on AI-powered robotic inspection solutions. The company helped SmartRay create a software platform for robotic weld inspection, integrating AI-assisted workpiece feasibility analysis, tool-path generation, and execution on the Wandelbots NOVA platform. Grid Dynamics also announced TPGen, an AI robotic solution developed with Wandelbots to automate industrial robotic workflows that involve complex programming, such as weld, gluing, and surface processing inspection. These initiatives are presented as part of the company’s ability to deliver AI and robotics solutions for manufacturing, logistics, and high-tech industries.
AI-powered software development model
Grid Dynamics has introduced an AI-powered engagement model for software engineering services, based on its AI Native Development Framework (GAIN Development Framework). Company materials describe this framework as a combination of proprietary processes, human capital, and an AI-enabled development platform, designed for the scale and complexity of Fortune 1000 enterprises.
Features of this engagement model include prompt-driven incremental output, credit-based service consumption aligned with desired outputs, AI-benchmarked code quality, and a centralized client portal. The framework emphasizes collaboration between domain specialists, software architects, and emerging technology experts, while using AI tools to automate routine coding and testing tasks. Grid Dynamics positions this model as an evolution beyond traditional fixed price, time and materials, and capacity-based engagements.
Geographic footprint and exchange listing
Grid Dynamics states that it is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has offices across the Americas, Europe, and India. Its SEC filings confirm that its common stock, with a par value of $0.0001 per share, is listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol GDYN. The company has filed periodic reports, proxy statements, and current reports on Form 8-K describing its financial results, governance matters, and share repurchase program authorization.
Capital allocation and governance
In its SEC filings, Grid Dynamics has disclosed that its Board of Directors authorized a common stock repurchase program of up to a specified dollar amount of the company’s common stock. The program has no termination date and may be suspended or discontinued at any time, and does not obligate the company to repurchase any particular amount of stock. The company has also described changes to its outside director compensation policy, including the use of restricted stock units (RSUs) as a form of annual retainer compensation, with vesting tied to continued service on the Board and its committees.
Through its definitive proxy statement, Grid Dynamics provides information on its Board structure, director elections, committee responsibilities, executive compensation framework, equity incentive plans, and governance policies. The proxy materials also describe proposals such as the election of directors, ratification of the independent registered public accounting firm, advisory votes on executive compensation, and amendments to the company’s equity incentive plan.
Revenue mix and financial reporting
Grid Dynamics reports financial results through quarterly earnings releases and related Form 8-K filings. These disclosures show that the company generates revenue from its technology consulting, engineering, AI, and digital services across its various industry verticals. The company also provides non-GAAP financial measures, such as non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP net income, and non-GAAP EBITDA, alongside GAAP results, and explains that management uses these measures to evaluate core operating performance and trends, allocate capital, and support performance-based compensation decisions.
In its financial communications, Grid Dynamics describes trends such as growth in AI-related revenue, expansion of its headcount, and contributions from acquisitions to certain verticals. It also discusses macroeconomic and industry risks, competitive dynamics, and technology-related factors that may affect its business, as outlined in its forward-looking statements and risk factor discussions.
Position within the data processing and hosting industry
Within the broader data processing, hosting, and related services industry, Grid Dynamics presents itself as a partner for enterprises seeking to modernize their technology stacks and adopt AI at scale. Its focus on data and ML platforms, cloud platform and product engineering, IoT and edge computing, and digital engagement services aligns with the needs of organizations that rely on large-scale data infrastructure and cloud-native architectures.
By combining consulting, engineering, and AI capabilities, and by collaborating with partners such as AWS and Temporal Technologies, Grid Dynamics aims to support clients across the full lifecycle of digital and AI initiatives—from strategy and readiness assessments to platform implementation, solution development, and ongoing optimization.