Jesse Robbins
General Partner, Heavybit
Jesse is the co-founder of Chef and Orion Labs. He was the first chair of O’Reilly’s Velocity conference kickstarting the DevOps movement and served as Amazon’s original “Master of Disaster.” He is an avid dev community-builder and technical advisor and holds...
News & Announcements
Heavybit Welcomes New Member: Kubiya
Heavybit welcomes the AI platform for DevOps delegation, Kubiya.
Heavybit Welcomes New Member: Continue
Heavybit welcomes the open-source, AI development assistance tool for building with LLMs, Continue.
Heavybit Welcomes New Member: MightyMeld
Heavybit welcomes visual creation platform MightyMeld.
Our 3/13/23 Note to Heavybit Founders & CEOs - Key Banking / Cash Management Steps to Take This Week
Heavybit Welcomes New Member: Mobot
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Skills
Open Source Licensing
Understanding open source licenses, governance, and strategic considerations for OSS businesses. Covers permissive vs. copyleft vs. BSL, open source business models, software supply chain implications, and the evolving regulatory landscape.
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Security Compliance Program
Building a compliance program that satisfies enterprise customers and scales across frameworks. Covers SOC 2, ISO 27001, vendor security assessments, trust documentation, and GRC strategy.
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DevSecOps Practices
Embedding security into the software development lifecycle. Covers shift-left security, security in CI/CD pipelines, vulnerability management, application security strategy, and building security-aware engineering teams.
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Observability & Incident Response
The practice of operational reliability: instrumentation, monitoring, SLO setup, incident response, on-call design, and day-to-day reliability operations. Covers alerting strategies, error budgets, incident management processes, and blameless postmortems.
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Content from the Library
Data Council 2025: The Data Science & Algorithms Track with Sean Taylor and Jesse Robbins
Jesse Robbins interviews Sean Taylor about his work programming the Data Science & Algorithms track for Data Council 2025.
The Data Pipeline is the New Secret Sauce
AI inference infrastructure is fragmented due to cost, compute shortages, performance tradeoffs, and data challenges. Here’s how we find a clearer path forward.
Technical & Cultural Learnings from 10 Years of Computing
The software development community unpacks a decade of technology, process, and cultural learnings.
