This week on Bay Area Ventures I speak with my long-time colleague and good friend Erik Jones, Founder and CEO of Jacobian Engineering of Oakland California. Jacobian Engineering is an IT infrastructure and software development consultancy specializing in cybersecurity, HiTrust compliance, enterprise cloud hosting, 24/7 network monitoring and custom software development for SMB, enterprise, healthcare, e-commerce and nonprofit organizations

Erik is a tech genius having developed sophisticated airborne and shipborne electronics for the US Department of Defense, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and numerous aerospace clients. He was an early employee of mine at my first startup DML Associates of Marin County, California where he worked on enterprise software development, database administration and IT infrastructure architecture and deployment. His clients included Microsoft, Sutter Health, Hewlett-Packard and BHP Billiton to name a few.

Erik was one of my first hires when I was COO at Inflection and he grew into the role of VP Engineering along the way. Erik built Inflection’s e-commerce engine that supported dozens of consumer website supporting up to 60Million unique visitors per day.

If cyber security is a concern for your business, especially in healthcare, Erik and his team offer certified HiTrust audits and most of Jacobian’s employees are CISSP, AWS Solutions Architect, Stanford Advanced Security and HCISPP certified.

Erik was born and raised in the Bay Area and became engaged with technology at the age of 7. Before graduating from high school he was managing the network infrastructure for a division of a multinational oil services company. He worked for me full time while pursuing his Electrical Engineering degree at the University of California, Davis, being his class valedictorian. He led Inflection’s IT team while the company was growing 15-25% month over month for over three years ultimately leading to a $100M sale to Ancestry.com. Along the way he defended Inflection from cyber-attacks by Russian, Chinese and Romanian cyber-criminals.

Simultaneously he was building Jacobean engineering to its current state. Listen in to learn if and when he ever sleeps.

Erik is a serial entrepreneur, Silicon Valley veteran and is uniquely qualified to help you understand the Bay Area Way of Business.

For more information on Erik go to www.jacobianengineering.com.