THE TEAM
Both founders served. Both spent careers building and defending systems that can't go down. They brought that standard back to the small businesses and defense contractors who need it most.
Jake brings 25+ years of cybersecurity engineering and IT infrastructure experience spanning the defense industrial base, energy sector, and manufacturing. His career has taken him across the full spectrum of critical systems — from commercial enterprise infrastructure to government-adjacent defense programs.
After formative roles at BP and Petroleum Geo Services, Jake moved deep into defense and compliance work — ultimately becoming one of the relatively small number of professionals operating as a CMMC Lead Assessor within a certified C3PAO framework. That credential represents the top tier of CMMC expertise in the country: he doesn't just help companies prepare for assessments, he conducts them.
- CMMC Lead Assessor — operating within a C3PAO framework
- Deep expertise in NIST SP 800-171, CUI handling, and the Risk Management Framework (RMF)
- M.S. in Cyber Security — Capella University
- U.S. Navy Veteran with active Secret clearance
- Extensive background in defense supply chain compliance and contractor readiness
As CEO, Jake owns every client relationship from scoping through delivery — bringing military-grade accountability and the documented, repeatable processes that compliance work demands. When a defense contractor needs to know if they will pass a C3PAO assessment, Jake's answer comes from direct assessor-level experience, not guesswork.
Rudy brings 30+ years of IT leadership across enterprise technology, AI infrastructure, and defense systems — a career that spans Fortune 500 scale operations and the cutting edge of defense technology. Few infrastructure architects can claim experience at the intersection of all three.
His career includes executive and engineering roles at Dell, Visa, and Shield AI — from managing enterprise-scale infrastructure for one of the world's largest payment networks to building AI-driven systems for autonomous defense applications. Each role demanded systems that work every time, under pressure, with full documentation and clear accountability.
- Co-author of The AI Mindset — a published framework for integrating AI into organizational strategy and operations
- M.S. in Cyber Security with deep fluency in CMMC Level 2 and NIST SP 800-171 requirements
- U.S. Navy Veteran — defense technology and AI infrastructure specialist
- Founder of rudymartinez.ai — applied AI research and consulting practice
- Broad background in enterprise network architecture, cloud migration, and security hardening
As CTO and CAIO, Rudy leads all AI engineering strategy and solutions at Vaelance — from AI-augmented compliance workflows to infrastructure automation and intelligent operations tooling. He architects every technical engagement from the ground up: network topology, server infrastructure, backup strategy, and compliance frameworks — all built to document, hand off, and outlast any vendor relationship.
Jared brings 15+ years of experience specializing in advanced network and infrastructure engineering solutions — rooted in U.S. Air Force service, where systems availability is a mission requirement, not a metric. His background spans enterprise server environments, cloud platform engineering, and large-scale network architecture across military and commercial sectors.
After service, Jared built a track record managing infrastructure at scale — from bare-metal HPC cluster builds to hybrid cloud migrations on AWS and Azure, and SD-WAN deployments across distributed enterprise environments. He owns the operational layer: the stack that has to work before any application, security tool, or compliance framework can function.
- CompTIA Security+ and Network+ certified
- AWS Solutions Architect — hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure design
- HPC stack expertise — cluster architecture, InfiniBand/high-speed networking, compute node provisioning, and job scheduler configuration
- SD-WAN deployment — multi-site WAN optimization, traffic shaping, failover design, and carrier-agnostic edge deployments
- Deep experience in VMware, Hyper-V, and bare-metal server environments
- U.S. Air Force Veteran — communications and IT systems background
As Head of Infrastructure & Platform Engineering, Jared leads all technical deployments from first rack to final handoff — server builds, network provisioning, cloud migrations, SD-WAN, and HPC infrastructure. Every engagement ships fully documented with runbooks your team can actually own.