Jesse Robbins is Cofounder & Chief Community Officer of Opscode and served as Opscode’s founding CEO. Robbins is a recognized expert in Infrastructure, Web Operations, and Emergency Management.
He created & was a founding chair of the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and contributes to the O’Reilly Radar . Prior to Opscode, he worked at Amazon.com with a title of “Master of Disaster” where he was responsible for Website Availability for every property bearing the Amazon brand.
Robbins is a volunteer Firefighter/EMT and Emergency Manager, and led a task force deployed in Operation Hurricane Katrina. His experiences in the fire service profoundly influence his efforts in technology, and he strives to distill his knowledge from these two worlds and apply it in service of both.
