Projects — Jorge Barrera
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Three decades of building things that hadn't been built yet.

A selection of the ventures and platforms I've architected and led — from pioneering travel-commerce firsts to today's agent-native transformation.

FLAGSHIP 2019 — PRESENT
Sabre Corporation

Agentic SDLC Transformation

Transforming a traditional software development lifecycle into an agent-native engineering operating model across a 3,000-person airline IT organization — embedding AI agents across design, development, testing, and operations to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and sharpen engineering decisions.

The work is strategy, reference architecture, TCO modeling, proof-of-concept validation, and the knowledge-graph and governance groundwork that keeps agents grounded — inside secure, PCI- and GDPR-compliant environments, reporting directly to the SVP of Airline IT.

Agentic AI Governance GCP · Vertex AI PCI · GDPR
ORCHESTRATION agent coordination GOVERNANCE · SECURITY DESIGN requirements & specs DEVELOP code generation TEST evaluation & QA OPERATE monitor & iterate GROUNDED · EVALUATED knowledge-grounded outputs
Sabre · 2025

Putting a Price on Tech Debt

Built with agentic AI, this initiative gives leadership a rigorous way to reason about technical debt. It reclassifies existing backlogs and introduces new categories of budgetary spend for distinct kinds of debt — anchored by two metrics I designed: a Tech Debt Score and Tech Debt Leverage. Statistically weighted and tuned with Vertex AI, they turn a vague liability into a number executives can budget against.

Seguru Safeware VPN+
Coral Reef Technologies · Founder / VP

Seguru Safeware VPN+

A consumer mobile-security venture — VPN, intrusion detection and prevention. I owned it end to end: architecture, development management, talent acquisition, business negotiations, legal, accounting, and compliance.

Coral Reef · 1999

First Pan-Americas Travel Commerce

The first travel-commerce site serving the Americas in English, Spanish & Portuguese — 45 countries across North and South America, plus Europe.

Radixx International

Dynamic Airline Fare Pricing

A hybrid-cloud fare-pricing engine powering high-volume, 24/7 airline e-commerce for carriers worldwide.

Coral Reef · Venture

Ticket Animal

A private cloud-based concert ticketing and scanning platform with online and offline venue functionality — built, staffed, and run end to end.

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