Jeff Robbins

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Jeff Robbins
Jeff Robbins, August 2008, at House of Shields, San Francisco
Jeff Robbins, August 2008, at House of Shields, San Francisco
Background information
Born (1969-01-18) January 18, 1969 (age 55)

Jeff Lowe Robbins (born January 18, 1969) is an American musician and co-founder of the web development company Lullabot.

Biography

Robbins was an employee of O'Reilly & Associates in the early 1990s and participated in the development of Global Network Navigator, the first commercial web publication, before founding the web design company Liquid Media in 1994.

Also in 1994, Robbins and drummer Paul Buckley founded Orbit, a Boston-based power trio that released four CDs. Robbins left the technology industry when the band was signed to A&M Records to focus on touring and recording. Robbins' song "Medicine" appeared on the Billboard Modern Rock chart in 1997 and Orbit appeared on that year's Lollapalooza tour. After A&M Records was absorbed by Universal Music Group, Orbit was dropped and Robbins returned to web development.

In 2001, Robbins married Jennifer Niederst Robbins whom he had met at O'Reilly. The two began building websites together launching several high-profile projects including Ringo Starr's website. Around this time Robbins also began a soundtrack music company called SomeMusic, creating music for several television and radio commercials.

In 2004, Robbins began working with

South By Southwest and the Web 2.0 Summit
and he has keynoted at many Drupal events including BADCamp, Design For Drupal, Do It With Drupal, and New England Drupal Camp.

In Robbins' current role as CEO for Lullabot, he has grown the company to over 60 employees.

Turner Broadcasting, the Pac-12, and Intel. Lullabot also runs Drupalize.Me
, a video training website with beginner to advanced Drupal training.

Over the years, Robbins has contributed theme music for several podcasts including

FLOSS Weekly on the TWiT.tv network, The Linux Journal
Insider, The Lullabot Podcast, The Drupalize.Me Podcast, Insert Content Here, and The Creative Process.

References

  1. ^ "About | Lullabot". Lullabot.com. Lullabot. Retrieved 29 April 2015.