Robert Matsuoka has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Duetto

Matsuoka is a seminal AI thinker and technical leader with over 25 years' experience scaling systems and teams, and building travel tech. He joins Duetto to spearhead technology transformation across the company, from increasing delivery speeds for customers to managing the technical foundation for the Revenue & Profit Operating System (RP-OS).

Matsuoka's journey is rooted in building technology from the ground up. As the Co-founder and CTO of Citymaps, Matsuoka built geospatial systems processing billions of location elements — expertise that's directly applicable to hotel market intelligence and competitive set analysis powering Duetto's pricing recommendations. Following Citymaps' acquisition by Tripadvisor in 2016, Matsuoka spent eight years at the travel giant, ultimately serving as Head of Engineering and Interim CTO. In these roles, he owned the technical strategy for the Hotel Business Unit (the company's primary revenue engine) and scaled global engineering teams.

Post-Tripadvisor, Matsuoka held multiple fractional CTO roles and immersed himself in hands-on AI development. This involved pressure testing agentic AI applications to solve complex, high-scale enterprise challenges, and writing about his journey on HyperDev.

Matsuoka sees the challenges hoteliers are facing in today's high-cost market as a prime opportunity for technological innovation.

Matsuoka will also lead the engineering organization's adoption of AI-assisted development practices to increase product delivery speed.

These priorities laid out by Matsuoka are fundamental to Duetto's expansion beyond room revenue toward total hotel performance. This mission, catalyzed by the 2025 acquisition of HotStats, will come to life through the RP-OS — building on the success customers are already seeing today by combining Duetto and HotStats products.