Marietta, Georgia
Who you are actually hiring.
Northvalley Intelligence was founded in Marietta, Georgia in June 2026 by Ferosh Jacob. Every engagement starts with a conversation with him, not an account manager.
Northvalley Intelligence is a software consultancy: custom software, web and mobile, integrations, agentic applications, and data science and data cleansing, for organizations anywhere in the United States. For local service businesses in Cobb, Paulding and Douglas counties it also does the lead-path work shown on the home page. The published client work sits on the home page, and the cities we serve each have a page under service areas.
Mission, vision and values
Vision
A world where useful software improves people's lives and is within everyone's reach.
Mission
Northvalley Intelligence brings Fortune 500 engineering experience, from The Home Depot and Genuine Parts Company, to small businesses and nonprofits: software that works, at a price they can afford, so they can grow.
Values
- Hands-on. The founder does the hands-on work on every engagement.
- Start from the real question. We begin with the client's problem, not a package.
- Claim only what we can show. Proof lines on the site come from real work; nothing is inferred.
- Data stays yours. We run models on local hardware where the client needs data kept in-house, and we reject sensitive personal data at the system level.
Background and credentials
- Ph.D. in computer science, The University of Alabama
- M.S. in computer science, Clarkson University
- Software engineering and AI leader working across search, relevance, data science, and practical AI systems
- Career from software engineer to staff engineer and senior engineering manager, in the retail, healthcare, recruiting and automotive-parts domains
- Search relevance and product ranking at The Home Depot (2015–2021); 22 years in software, 12 in search, catalog and data-driven systems
- Part-time Assistant Professor, Kennesaw State University, since 2017
- Refereed publications since 2009, including a 2016 Springer chapter on data science at CareerBuilder; Ph.D. internship at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2012)
Sourced from Ferosh's published biography at feroshjacob.github.io.