Jesse Robbins

Jesse Robbins is Founder & Executive Chairman of Orion Labs. Jesse is a venture partner at Heavybit, the venture fund and program that helps developer and infrastructure tools startups succeed. Jesse is an early investor and advisor in companies like Fastly, Pagerduty, Launchdarkly, Sanity, and Instacart.

Prior to Orion, Jesse was founder& CEO of Chef, the pioneer in cloud automation, used by thousands of companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. He also founded the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and edited the Web Operations book. He is credited as a creator of the DevOps movement. Prior to founding Chef, Robbins served as Amazon’s “Master of Disaster” where he was responsible for Website Availability for every property bearing the Amazon brand.

Jesse is a volunteer Firefighter/EMT and Emergency Manager.