Hi. We're Opscode.

Opscode helps companies of all sizes develop fully automated server infrastructures: ones that scale easily and predictably, that can be quickly rebuilt in any environment, and that save developers and systems engineers both time and money.

We offer two products that, when working in tandem, make it easier than ever to build a fully automated infrastructure:

Chef is a server configuration management tool that lets you express the design of your infrastructure in code, giving you the benefits of repeatability, agility, and version-control.
The Opscode Platform is a centrally managed data store for information about your servers. It allows Chef to take dynamic, “infrastructure aware” actions across any portion of your environment.

The Opscode Team

Our team is comprised of web infrastructure experts responsible for building and operating some of the world’s largest websites and cloud computing platforms.

Executive Team

Chief Executive Officer: Jesse Robbins

Jesse Robbins is co-founder and CEO of Opscode. 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. He serves as co-chair of the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and contributes to the OʼReilly Radar.

Chief Technology Officer: Adam Jacob

Adam Jacob is a co-founder of Opscode and the creator of Chef. Prior to Opscode, he founded HJK Solutions, an automated infrastructure consultancy. During two years at HJK, he built new infrastructures for 15 different startups. Including his time at HJK, Adam has 13 years of experience as a systems administrator, systems architect, and tools developer. He has been responsible for large production infrastructures, internal corporate automation, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts.

VP of Product Development: Barry Steinglass

Barry Steinglass is a co-founder of Opscode and a veteran manager of software product development teams. Before joining HJK Solutions as Senior Partner, Barry was an early member of the Xbox Platform team at Microsoft, where he helped create the Xbox, Xbox Live and the Xbox 360. He has broad experience across many types of products and customers, including enterprise server products, consumer electronics, software services, and developer platforms.

VP of Engineering: Christopher Brown

Christopher Brown joins Opscode from Microsoft, where he was a Director of Engineering for the Edge Computing Network within Global Foundation Services. Prior to Microsoft, Christopher was a Founding Member, Architect, and Lead Developer for Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud ("EC2"). He holds several patents in the areas of Internet routing, VM/runtime hosting, content delivery and cloud computing.

Bryan Hale

Bryan Hale joins Opscode from Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), a premier early stage venture capital firm. Prior to joining DFJ, Bryan worked in the Corporate Development group at salesforce.com where he led valuation and due diligence efforts for several of the Company's first acquisitions. Previously, Bryan was in the Global Technology Group at UBS Investment Bank.

Director of Operations: Nathan Haneysmith

Nathan Haneysmith is a co-founder of Opscode and a seasoned system architect and leader of technical support teams. Before helping found HJK Solutions, Nathan was the Linux Platform Lead for IBM e-Business Web Hosting and supported environments for a variety of technical startups as well as Fortune 500 companies. His background includes a wide range of enterprise and open source platforms and products.

VP of Training, Services, and Evangelism: John Willis

John has over three decades working in the IT trenches managing complex infrastructures. Prior to joining Opscode, he founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise. John has trained more than 10,000 people on IBM Tivoli products around the world and is recognized as an industry expert in enterprise systems management and monitoring. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems.

Logistics Chief: Kira Franz, Esq.

Kira supports Opscode's CEO & executive team, and is responsible for Recruiting, HR, and Business Operations. She is a successful appellate & criminal defense attorney, having prevailed in cases going all the way to the WA Supreme Court. She spent two years in the HR division of the Seattle Fire Department. Kira is a member of the Washington & Oregon State Bar Associations, and is certified as both a Senior & Global Professional in Human Resources. Kira served as Jesse's Logistics Chief in Operation Hurricane Katrina.