GDG Cloud Southlake #25: Ostrowski/Browne: Sabre's Journey to the Cloud

Brief overview of Sabre's journey from private datacenters, through multi-cloud to mono-cloud and beyond. Review of the drivers, expectations, and results with plenty of time for Q&A.

Jacek Ostrowski

Sabre

Sr Director Platform Engineering

In 1998 Jacek received MS in Computer Science from Jagiellonian University, Poland and started a developer career.

From 2001 to 2007 he honed his java and architecture skills while building systems supporting data warehouses with Asseco Poland.

In 2007 joined Sabre as a senior java engineer, and a few years later moved to enterprise architecture. After a few years as an EA, he started championing platform product management and took the platform product manager position. In 2018 took a leadership position over a team of platform product managers.

From 2020 Jacek leads Platform Engineering and uses his developer experience and product mindset to make Sabre's developers happier and more productive.

David Browne

Sabre

Senior Principal SRE Architecture

Graduated from the University of Waterloo with Joint degrees in Computer Science and Actuarial Science. Has spent 20 years doing software development and Enterprise Architecture work with IBM, Travelocity, and Sabre.

Experienced in implementing enterprise DevOps solutions to deploy software into on-prem and cloud-based environments such as AWS, Azure and GCP.

Currently working as an SRE architect with Sabre where he is an advocate for designing and implementing enterprise DevOps solutions that can run at scale. Enabling hundreds of teams to get their software products to market faster and more efficiently while meeting today’s current reliability regulatory and security requirements.