Jesse Robbins is a general partner at Heavybit. He is a widely recognized founder, investor and advisor to cloud infrastructure and developer tools companies. He works with the entire Heavybit portfolio and currently holds board positions at Sanity, Memgraph, Mobot, Devign and Orion Labs. He joined Heavybit as a general partner in 2022 after starting as a partner and advisor in 2014. During that time, he founded Orion Labs, a communications platform for frontline workers. He has also been an angel investor and advisor at Fastly, PagerDuty, CircleCI, Instacart and many others. Prior to Heavybit, he was CEO of Chef Software, Inc. a pioneer in cloud infrastructure automation. Chef has become a market leader, used by companies such as Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM and thousands of other organizations with hundreds of thousands of developers. In 2020, Chef was acquired by Progress Software for $240 million. He also founded the O'Reilly Velocity Performance and Operations Conference, which has grown into a thriving global community that has evolved into what is now called the DevOps movement. Before joining Chef, he was a "disaster master" at Amazon, responsible for website availability for every site owned by the Amazon brand. He created Incident Management and GameDay, which continue to be company-wide initiatives aimed at improving reliability by implementing training and response and remediation technologies, as well as targeting major system outages. This work has evolved and been greatly expanded as industry best practices such as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Facebook and Google, Chaos Engineering at Netflix, and helped inspire the founders of Heavybit portfolio companies such as PagerDuty and Jeli. As a result of this work, he received the prestigious TR35 award from MIT Technology Review for "changing the way companies design and manage complex networks of servers and software." His career and education in building fast-growing technology startups began at age 16, when he was one of the first employees of a Bay Area Internet service provider, going through acquisition and international expansion. After another company went IPO in 1999, he took a break from startups to complete a professional firefighter/EMT certification program at Mission College and the Palo Alto Fire Department in California. He then volunteered with the Seattle Fire Department and served as a task force commander during Operation Hurricane Katrina.