Jesse Robbins

Jesse Robbins

Opscode & O'Reilly Radar

Jesse Robbins (@jesserobbins) is CEO of Opscode (makers of Chef) and a recognized expert in Infrastructure, Web Operations, and Emergency Management.

He serves as co-chair of the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and contributes to the O’Reilly Radar . Prior to co-founding 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.

Sessions

Keynote
Location: Regency Ballroom
Jesse Robbins (Opscode & O'Reilly Radar), Steve Souders (Google)
Jesse Robbins and Steve Souders welcome you to Velocity 2009! Read more.
Keynote
Location: Regency Ballroom
Jesse Robbins (Opscode & O'Reilly Radar), Steve Souders (Google)
Morning welcome and program notes from Jesse Robbins and Steve Souders. Read more.
Operations
Location: Regency 2
Jesse Robbins (Opscode & O'Reilly Radar), Rich Wolski (Eucalyptus Systems Inc.), Simon Wardley (Canonical Ltd), James Urquhart (Cnet), John Willis (SearchCloudComputing.com)
Coming Soon! Read more.
  • Keynote Systems
  • Google
  • Shopzilla
  • Aptimize
  • Facebook
  • NeuStar
  • Rackspace Cloud
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • SoftLayer
  • SpringSource
  • Sun Microsystems

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