Adam Jacob

Adam Jacob is the former CTO at Chef. A systems administrator for 25 years, he helped write Chef and Habitat, cofounded and is on the board of Chef Software, and is a passionate advocate for sustainable free and open source communities. He also likes beaches more than mountains, is allergic to plants, and gets nervous every time he speaks in public.

Radar

The Business of Open Source

June 3, 2020

How do you build a business around open source when you’re competing with AWS and the like? Chef’s answer: double down on Open Source.

The war for the soul of open source

July 18, 2019

Drawing on 13 years spent building the Chef community, Adam Jacob takes a deep dive into the soul of open source.

The future works like people

June 21, 2017

Adam Jacob says we need to design organizations that can cope with what’s new and what’s next.