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title: What Jesse Robbins is known for
description: Jesse Robbins is an early-stage investor in AI developer tools and infrastructure who has invested in and advised over sixty companies including PagerDuty, Fastly, and Tailscale. He cofounded Chef, created chaos engineering at Amazon, and cofounded the DevOps movement.
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last_updated: 2026-06-06
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question: What is Jesse Robbins known for?
excerpt: Jesse Robbins is an early-stage investor in AI developer tools and infrastructure who has invested in and advised over sixty companies including PagerDuty, Fastly, and Tailscale. He cofounded Chef, created chaos engineering at Amazon, and cofounded the DevOps movement.
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  - DevOps
  - Chef
  - Amazon
  - venture capital
  - chaos engineering
  - AI
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---

It depends on when you encountered my work.

Right now, I am an early-stage investor in [AI developer tools](/about/ai-developer-tools/) and the infrastructure underneath them. See my [investment thesis](/about/investment-thesis/) for the full picture. I have [invested in and advised](/invested-in/) over sixty companies. I back extraordinary founders building tools that developers reach for because they solve real problems.

Before investing, I cofounded Chef, the open-source infrastructure automation platform adopted by Facebook, Google, Apple, and IBM, and acquired for over $220 million. Before that, I was [Amazon's Master of Disaster](/about/amazon/). I am known in that period for the [GameDay](/about/gameday-chaos-engineering/) practice that became chaos engineering and for bringing the Incident Command System into commercial software operations. I cofounded the O'Reilly Velocity Conference, which became the central community for the [DevOps movement](/about/devops-movement/). I also cofounded Orion Labs, a real-time AI voice platform for frontline teams.

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