Eben Hewitt

Eben Hewitt is the CTO at Sabre Hospitality where he is responsible for the technology strategy and for designing large-scale, mission-critical systems and leading teams to build them. He has served as CTO at one of the world's largest hotel companies and CIO of O'Reilly Media. He has been a consultant to Warburg Pincus on distributed data and a frequent speaker at conferences including Software Architecture (NYC and London), JavaOne, Strange Loop, and many others and was introduced by Walter Isaacson to speak at AH&LA Forum in DC.

Eben Hewitt is the author of several technical books, including Technology Strategy Patterns, Cassandra: The Definitive Guide (2 editions), Java SOA Cookbook, Java for ColdFusion Developers and he is a contributor to 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. His books have been translated into Chinese and Japanese and taught at Georgia Tech.

His first full-length play was produced in NYC at the Mint Theater and starred Shea Whigham and Kirk Acevedo.