Jesse Robbins

Jesse Robbins is a startup founder and investor in developer tools and AI, with five IPOs and many successful exits and investments across AI, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and life sciences.

He is the founding CEO of Chef, the open-source infrastructure automation platform that became the backbone of DevOps at Facebook, Google, Apple, and IBM. He co-founded the Velocity Conference where he helped start the DevOps movement, and his work as "Master of Disaster" created what we now call SRE and chaos engineering practices that the entire industry now uses.

A certified firefighter and EMT, he served as a task force leader during Hurricane Katrina and has volunteered in disaster response operations around the world. He also founded Orion Labs, a real-time AI voice platform for frontline teams.