Jesse Robbins is a General Partner of Heavybit and a widely recognized and sought-after founder, investor, and advisor of cloud infrastructure and developer tools companies. Before Heavybit, Jesse was founding CEO of Chef Software, Inc., the early pioneer of Cloud Infrastructure Automation. Chef became the market leader used by customers like Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, and thousands of other organizations with hundreds of thousands of developers. Chef was acquired by Progress Software for over $200m in 2020. Jesse also founded the O’Reilly Velocity Performance and Operations Conference, which has become a thriving global community that evolved to what is now called the DevOps movement. Prior to Chef, Jesse served as Amazon's “Master of Disaster” responsible for website availability for every property bearing the Amazon brand. He created the Incident Management and GameDay programs, which continue as company-wide initiatives to increase reliability by implementing response and remediation training and technology and purposefully creating major system failures. This work has evolved and been greatly expanded as industry best practices such as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Facebook and Google, Netflix’s Chaos Engineering, and helped inspire the founders of Heavybit portfolio companies such as PagerDuty and Jeli. As a result of this work, Jesse received MIT Technology Review’s prestigious TR35 award for having “transformed the way companies design and manage complex networks of servers and software”. Jesse’s career and education in building high-growth technology startups began when he was 16, starting as an early employee of a bay area ISP through acquisition and international expansion. He was entirely self-taught, starting with writing software for managing dial-up modem banks and quickly rising to responsibility for deploying the network backbone for many of the first home broadband connections in the US. Jesse completed a professional Firefighter/EMT certification program, and has volunteered with several fire departments and served as a Task Force Leader during Operation Hurricane Katrina.