Leadership
Every team member brings hands-on experience in both AI implementation and regulatory compliance.
Erik D. Jones
Chief Executive Officer
Erik founded Jacobian Engineering in 2005 after a career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he worked on national security and defense systems. He studied Electrical Engineering at UC Davis and has spent 30+ years building trust-critical infrastructure for healthcare, financial services, and government. At TrustEdge, he leads AI strategy and oversees every engagement — ensuring what we build is not just capable, but audit-ready, secure, and compliant by design.
Bev Waller
Senior Director of Operations & Compliance
With 20+ years of experience in compliance and operations, Bev leads TrustEdge's training programs that teach organizations how to build compliant AI systems by design. Her guiding principle: compliance should enable growth, not hinder it. She works directly with clients to develop the internal policies, workflows, and governance frameworks their teams need to operate AI responsibly and pass regulatory scrutiny.
Jared Knedler
Senior Manager, Cloud & Infrastructure
Jared has spent over a decade managing the cloud infrastructure that regulated industries depend on. At TrustEdge, he architects the secure AWS and Azure environments where our clients' AI systems run — designing for high availability, compliance control inheritance, and the operational rigor that production AI requires. If it has to be up, auditable, and fast, Jared's team owns it.
Luke Moore
Project Coordinator
Luke coordinates the compliance side of every TrustEdge engagement — managing audit timelines, evidence collection, and assessor communication so clients stay on track. With 10+ years of compliance program management, he turns complex regulatory requirements into clear, achievable project milestones.
Langston Kung
Senior Compliance Officer
Langston performs the technical security assessments that validate AI deployments meet regulatory standards. His 8+ years in cloud security gap analysis and HITRUST auditing give clients a clear-eyed view of where their AI systems stand — and a concrete roadmap to certification.
Chris Worth
Senior Cloud Architect
Chris designs the cloud architectures that make compliant AI deployments possible at scale. With 12+ years in cloud migrations and infrastructure optimization for financial and SaaS clients, he knows which AWS and Azure services inherit which compliance controls — and how to structure AI workloads so they pass audits without sacrificing performance.
Kyrylo Maznyk
Senior DevOps & MLOps Engineer
Kyrylo automates the deployment pipelines and operational infrastructure that production AI requires. With 10+ years in Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud automation, he builds the MLOps scaffolding that makes AI systems reliable, auditable, and repeatable — so model updates ship without breaking compliance controls or SLA commitments.
Stephen Santilli
AI Security Analyst
Stephen brings 5+ years of penetration testing and vulnerability assessment expertise to TrustEdge AI security engagements. He specializes in automated and manual security audits of AWS cloud infrastructure — and increasingly, the AI systems running on top of it. When clients need to know where their AI pipelines are exposed, Stephen finds out before the auditors do.
Jason Riek
AI Security Analyst
Jason specializes in continuous monitoring and vulnerability management across cloud and mobile environments. His 5+ years of security assessment work translates directly to AI compliance — identifying misconfigurations, access control gaps, and data handling issues in production AI systems before they become audit findings.
Manthan Ghasadiya
AI Security Analyst
Manthan brings deep offensive security expertise to TrustEdge's AI security practice. With 5+ years specializing in web and mobile application penetration testing, he applies that adversarial mindset to AI systems — identifying prompt injection vulnerabilities, model extraction risks, and API security gaps that standard compliance frameworks don't yet cover.
Drake Smedt
AI Infrastructure Engineer
Drake brings 5+ years of systems engineering experience to TrustEdge's AI infrastructure practice. He specializes in maintaining and optimizing the complex cloud environments where AI workloads run — ensuring the reliability and performance that production ML systems demand. His hands-on approach to system reliability means clients' AI platforms stay operational and auditable around the clock.
Artur Sotskov
AI Infrastructure Engineer
Artur focuses on building scalable, automated infrastructure for AI deployments. With 5+ years of systems engineering experience, he designs the cloud foundations that allow AI models to be deployed, versioned, and scaled without disrupting compliance controls or operational SLAs.
Anthony Di Salvo
Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer
Anthony has 10+ years of experience building and automating the infrastructure that powers mission-critical systems. At TrustEdge, he applies that expertise to AI platform engineering — designing automated provisioning workflows, cloud security controls, and resilient architectures that keep AI workloads stable, performant, and audit-ready.
Andriy Havrylyak
Senior AI Engineering Lead
Andriy leads TrustEdge's AI application engineering practice with 12+ years of full-stack and systems architecture experience. He guides teams in designing high-performance AI-powered applications — from data ingestion pipelines to inference APIs — with the engineering rigor and architectural clarity that regulated environments require.
Roman Balabukh
AI Backend Engineer
Roman specializes in the backend systems and data layers that AI applications depend on. With 8+ years of experience in backend development and database optimization, he builds the robust, scalable data pipelines and APIs that power TrustEdge's AI automation solutions.
Bohdan Shmid
AI Software Engineer
Bohdan contributes clean, maintainable code to TrustEdge's AI engineering practice. With 5+ years of full-stack development experience, he builds the application logic and integrations that bring AI automation workflows to life — with a focus on code quality, testability, and long-term maintainability.
Serhii Pashchenko
AI Software Engineer
Serhii delivers high-quality software solutions across TrustEdge's AI automation products. With 5+ years in modern web development and agile delivery, he builds and ships the features that clients rely on — applying current best practices in both development process and AI integration patterns.
Jaiven Spence
AI Engineer & Content Strategist
Jaiven sits at the intersection of AI engineering and brand communication. He builds the AI-powered tools and automations that power TrustEdge's client experience — and translates complex AI and compliance topics into clear, compelling content for decision-makers in regulated industries.
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What Drives Us
Our values guide every engagement, recommendation, and line of code.
Trust First
We never recommend a solution we would not use in our own regulated environments.
Practitioners, Not Just Advisors
We build and deploy the systems we recommend. Our advice comes from real implementation experience.
Compliance by Design
Regulatory requirements are built into architecture from day one, not bolted on as an afterthought.
Learn about our Jacobian Engineering heritage, review our certifications and credentials, or explore our AI Academy training programs.
Work With Our Team
Bring your AI challenges to practitioners who understand your compliance requirements.