Jesse Robbins
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| Born | 1978 (age 39) Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts |
| Residence | Seattle, WA |
| Education | Mission College Firefighter Academy |
| Occupation | Founder of Orion Labs & Chef |
| Known for | Contributions to computer science, web operations/DevOps, & emergency management |
Jesse Robbins (born 1978) is an American technology entrepreneur and firefighter notable for his contributions in wearable communication, web operations, DevOps, and emergency management.
Robbins worked at Amazon.com with the title of “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. 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 and similar approaches are considered a best practice for large technology companies.
GameDay-like programs have been adopted by many other organizations, including Google, Netflix (called Chaos Monkey),Yahoo, Facebook, and many others.
After Amazon, Robbins founded the Velocity Conference to advance the field of Web Operations & DevOps. He also founded Chef a cloud infrastructure automation company. Robbins left his full time role with the company in 2013 to start a new company, but remains an advisor.
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.
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.
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