Veteran-owned systems engineering for homes and small businesses across the Bay Area, Sacramento, and Central California. Fixed quotes before any work and replies inside 24 hours. You work with the engineer, not a call center.
Leave your number and I'll personally call you back, typically the same day.
Everything below is something we already built and run for ourselves. That's the audition.
UniFi networks planned around your actual floor plan. Full coverage, a separate guest network, and parts you can replace one at a time instead of all at once.
A quiet server in the closet instead of a monthly cloud bill. Photos, documents, and backups stay home, where they belong.
Lights, cameras, and climate that work without shipping your family's routines to some company's data center.
Workstations and gaming rigs specced for your real workload, assembled carefully, and tested harder than the store ever would.
A practical security review of your home or office network. You get fixes and priorities, not scare tactics.
I don't sell panels, which makes me useful. I check the quote you got against real numbers so you know whether it actually pays off.
Fast, simple business sites built to turn visitors into calls. You're reading one right now.
Reliable network, clean audio and video for calls, sane cable runs. Working from home stops being a daily gamble.
Planning something big? I'll review the plan, tell you what I'd do differently, and why. Cheap insurance against expensive mistakes.
Wired camera systems with local storage. No monthly fees, no footage on some company's servers, and recording keeps working even when the internet doesn't.
One central server that searches, downloads, and streams karaoke video to every room. TV players, tablet remotes, and song requests from guests' phones.
central media server · per-room players · QR song requestsStorage servers that replace monthly cloud bills, on properly segmented networks, with remote access that opens zero ports to the internet.
local-first · segmented networking · 0 open portsOur own calculators for real consultations: payback math, blackout battery runtime, and a line-by-line utility bill decoder. No sales pitch attached.
7 calculators · used in live consultsThe person who quotes your job is the person who shows up and does it. I've been the customer who got handed between five different technicians. That experience is half the reason this company exists.
Show up on time. Do it right. Own the result. Every system gets built like someone is depending on it, because someone is.
Given the choice, I'd rather build you something local than rent you something in the cloud. Fewer subscriptions, fewer strangers holding your files.
Every project ends with written documentation. Any tech could pick it up after me. Nobody is locked in here, which is exactly why most people stay.
Fifteen minutes on the phone. You tell me what's broken or what you want built. If you don't actually need to hire anyone, I'll say so and save us both the time.
You get a written plan and one fixed price. No hourly meter running, no surprise parts, no fine print to squint at.
I build it, test it under real use, then walk you through everything and hand over the documentation. Done means done.
"I put my name on every system I build. That only works if they work."
Lycsweb is run by Roland, a U.S. armed forces veteran and systems engineer in Northern California. He reads every inquiry himself, writes the quotes, and does the work. When a job needs more hands, he brings in specialists he trusts personally, and you'll know exactly who they are.
Nothing on this site is theory. Private storage, segmented networks, self-hosted services, smart homes that report to nobody: we live on these systems every day, and they've survived years of real family use. Your project gets a setup that has already earned our trust.
You get a fixed quote after the free call, and you approve it before anything starts. And if the honest answer is "don't hire anyone, buy a $40 part," I'll tell you that instead.
We're based in Merced and cover the Central Valley on site — Merced, Atwater, Los Banos, Turlock, Modesto — plus the South Bay (San Jose, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Cupertino, Campbell, Morgan Hill) as scheduled project visits. Reviews, consulting and solar math happen over a video call from anywhere. See the full list of areas.
I default to local. Cameras and smart-home gear that work without the cloud, servers that live in your house. Your data isn't a product here.
Yes, and I prefer it. Good hardware you already paid for gets reused, not replaced for the sake of a bigger invoice.
I support what I build. You also get full documentation, so if you ever want someone else to take over, they can pick up right where I left off. No hostage situations.
Both. Family homes, home offices, shops, and small businesses that need their systems to just keep working.
A custom computer usually runs one to two weeks depending on parts. Networks and smart homes take a few weeks of planning and installation. Real dates come with your quote.
Not sure which of these you actually need? That's exactly what the free call is for. Fifteen minutes, no obligation, straight answers.
Book the free callOr what you want built. Either way, the first fifteen minutes are free and you'll hear back within 24 hours.