Summary
Jason Hughes is a hospitality-focused technology leader and CTO with 11 years in software and over a decade of hands-on hotel operations experience across Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott and other brands. He has risen through support, development, and project management to lead engineering teams at Visual Matrix, driving migrations to Git, Agile practices, and modern CI/CD and collaboration tools while still writing code to unblock teams. Passionate about removing friction for hotel staff and improving guest experiences, he helps operate a PMS used by 2,000+ properties in 30 countries and builds features like automated revenue optimization and mobile labor tools. He also advises on growth and engineering across ASG, and founded a payments-focused startup aimed at simplifying card-not-present transactions for hospitality. Based in North Carolina, he coordinates distributed teams across the US, Vietnam, and India, combining operational empathy with pragmatic product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology at Western Governors University
International Studies, International Studies at The Ohio State University