Jesse Robbins Explained

Jesse Robbins
Birth Place:Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
Nationality:American
Employer:Heavybit, Chef, Amazon.com

Jesse Robbins is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, and firefighter notable for his pioneering work in Cloud computing, role in creating DevOps/Chaos Engineering, and efforts to improve emergency management.

Career

Robbins is a venture capital investor at "developer-focused" firm Heavybit, with notable investments in companies like PagerDuty, Snyk, and Tailscale.[1]

Robbins worked at Amazon with his manager-approved title “Master of Disaster,” where he was responsible for website availability for every property bearing the Amazon brand. He created "GameDay", a project to increase reliability by purposefully creating major failures on a regular basis (a practice now called Chaos Engineering).[2]

Robbins has said GameDay was inspired by his experience & training as a firefighter combined with lessons from other industries and research on complex systems, human cognitive stress models, reliability engineering, and normal accidents. Game day/Chaos Engineering and similar approaches are considered a best practice for large technology companies.[3] [4]

GameDay-like programs have been adopted by many other organizations, including Google, Netflix (called Chaos Monkey),[5] Yahoo, Facebook, and many others.[6]

After Amazon, Robbins founded the Velocity Conference to advance the field of Web Operations & DevOps with Tim O'Reilly.[7] He also founded Chef, a pioneering cloud infrastructure automation company.[8] [9] Jesse Robbins was also an early investor in PagerDuty.[10] [11] [12] [13]

Robbins was recognized in 2011 with the Technology Review TR35 award for "transforming the way Web companies design and manage complex networks of servers and software" at Amazon.com, founding the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference, and founding Chef and serving as the first CEO.[14]

Other work

Robbins founded Orion Labs, a technology startup which created a "Real-Life Star Trek Communicator".He says he "wanted to bring heads-up, real-time communication to everybody" to build "a world powered by voice".[15] [16] [17] [18]

Contributions to disaster response & humanitarian aid

Robbins volunteered as “Task Force Leader” in Hurricane Katrina. After he returned, he worked with Mikel Maron and OpenStreetMap on techniques and patterns to improve technology adoption in disaster response & humanitarian aid. These improvements were adopted by the United Nations Joint Logistics Centre in response to Cyclone Nargis in 2008 and are now widely adopted. One example was CrisisCommons in response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake.[19] [20] [21]

Awards and recognition

2021 - Robbins named to The Seed 100: the Best Early-Stage Investors of 2021[22]

2012 - Robbins was named as a Top 10 Cloud Computing Leader of 2012 by TechTarget[23]

2011 - Robbins was selected by MIT Technology Review magazine as one of the top "35 under 35" TR35 innovators in for "transforming the way Web companies design and manage complex networks of servers and software" while building fault-tolerant online infrastructure at Amazon.com and at Chef.

2010 - Robbins was selected by Business Journal as one of the top "40 under 40" entrepreneurs in 2010 for founding Chef and raising $13 million in venture capital funding.[24] [25]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cai . Kenrick . Heavybit Raises $80 Million Fund To Back The Developer Tools That Other VCs Misunderstand . 2023-02-24 . Forbes . en.
  2. Book: John Allspaw. Jesse Robbins. Jesse Robbins. Web operations : keeping the data on time. 2010. O'Reilly. Beijing. 978-1-4493-7744-1. 336. 1st. Allspaw, John.
  3. Jesse Robbins. Jesse Robbins. Kripa Krishnan. John Allspaw. Tom Limoncelli. Tom Limoncelli. Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure. ACM Queue. 12 September 2012.
  4. Web site: Logan. Martin. DevOps Culture Hacks talk from Jesse Robbins. DevOps.com. 13 Feb 2012.
  5. News: Netflix Open Sources Chaos Monkey – A Tool Designed To Cause Failure So You Can Make A Stronger Cloud. Williams. Alex. TechCrunch. 2018-03-07. en.
  6. Haryadi Gunawi. Thanh Do. Joseph M. Hellerstein. Joseph M. Hellerstein. Ion Stoica. Ion Stoica. Dhruba Borthakur. Jesse Robbins. Jesse Robbins. Failure as a Service (FaaS): A Cloud Service for Large-Scale, Online Failure Drills. 28 July 2011. 7. 24 June 2013. Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California at Berkeley.
  7. News: O'Reilly. Tim. Why We Started the Velocity Conference. 24 June 2013. O'Reilly Radar. 17 June 2013.
  8. News: Mets. Cade. The Chef, the Puppet, and the Sexy IT Admin. 20 December 2011. Wired Magazine. 26 October 2011.
  9. News: Asay. Matt. Building Your Own Cloud Is "Table Stakes," Says Former AWS Engineer. 7 November 2015. ReadWrite. 5 November 2015.
  10. News: Vance. Ashlee. Ashlee Vance. Puppet, Chef Ease Transition to Cloud Computing. https://web.archive.org/web/20110924131145/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/puppet-chef-ease-transition-to-cloud-computing-09012011.html. dead. September 24, 2011. 20 December 2011. Businessweek. 1 September 2011.
  11. News: Brumleve. Harry. The Rise of DevOps with Jesse Robbins. 29 May 2013. InfoQ. 17 Jan 2013.
  12. Web site: Taylor. Colleen. DevOps eliminates knee-jerk no's at the IT level. GigaOm. 13 Aug 2011. 23 June 2011.
  13. Web site: Edwards. Damon. DevOps Cafe Episode 19. DevOpsCafe. 29 May 2013. Willis, John. https://web.archive.org/web/20110928123431/http://www.opscode.com/blog/2011/09/22/jesse-robbins-interview-on-devops-cafe-19-w-full-transcript/. 28 September 2011. 20 Sep 2011. Alt URL
  14. Web site: Technology Review TR35 Profile: Jesse Robbins . 2011-12-14.
  15. News: Orion Labs Creates Real-Life Star Trek Communicator. Fox. Pimm. 6 Feb 2015. 3 Mar 2015. Bloomberg Television.
  16. Metz. Cade. 'Star Trek Communicator Startup' Sets Out to Build a World Powered by Voice. 12 March 2015. Wired. 21 January 2015.
  17. News: Hands free talk with global reach and style. Gruber. Ben. 29 Apr 2015. 4 June 2015. Thomson Reuters. Reuters.
  18. News: Fox. Pimm. Orion Labs Creates Real-Life Star Trek Communicator. 4 April 2015. BloombergBusiness. Bloomberg. 5 Feb 2015.
  19. News: Ginsburg. Janet. The Do-Good Imperative. https://web.archive.org/web/20080712045701/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2008/tc2008076_973163.htm. dead. July 12, 2008. 20 December 2011. Businessweek. 7 July 2008.
  20. News: King. Rachael. Making Maps Work When Disaster Strikes. https://web.archive.org/web/20080712045656/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2008/tc2008076_867685.htm. dead. July 12, 2008. 20 December 2011. Businessweek. 7 July 2008.
  21. Web site: Turner. Andrew. CrisisCommons and Congress. 29 January 2015.
  22. Web site: Haley . Margaux MacColl, Melia Russell, Candy Cheng, Michael . The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors of 2021 . 2023-02-24 . Business Insider . en-US.
  23. Web site: Top 10 cloud computing leaders in 2012. 20 March 2012.
  24. Web site: 2010 40 UNDER 40 JESSE ROBBINS. 2011-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20120424021920/http://www2.bizjournals.com/seattle/events/2010/40_under_40/jesse_robbins.html. 2012-04-24. dead.
  25. News: John. Cook. Fourteen local techies under 40, and the cool stuff they've done. 20 December 2011. Puget Sound Business Journal - Techflash. 16 September 2010.

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