Jacob is a Sr. Solutions Architect and the primary Cloud Architect @ Nicira responsible for build out of Nicira's internal OpenStack Cloud deployment serving 100+ Nicira members and Nicira's worldwide field and partner teams.

Prior to Nicira, Jacob was a Staff Customer Engineer at VMware for 6 years, where he helped on-board a variety of Business Critical Applications to virtualized environment enabled by VMware. He worked with top tier Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers in moving their Critical applications to virtualized environments and helping customers adopt a Virtualization first policy.

Jacob has extensive Infrastructure IT Architecture experience at companies like VISA, Cadence Design Systems, Peets Coffee, US Web and NextCard.