Robert Duffy

Robert Duffy is a Digital Transformation executive with over 20 years of experience in building and scaling industry-leading software platforms.

He excels in creating a culture around platforms, driving rapid adoption across mid-sized to large companies, and delivering economies of scale, cost savings, and increased business agility.

Robert has a proven track record of deconstructing monolithic systems, streamlining processes, automating developer workflows, and transitioning operations to cloud-based environments.

He believes in the importance of focusing on people for platform success, emphasizing selling the vision, building strong teams, fostering collaboration across distributed teams, managing inter-team dependencies, and facilitating change.

Robert's approach to platform adoption centers on customer focus rather than mandates, with a special emphasis on developers as the primary 'customer'.

His guiding principles include building passionate teams, prioritizing customer-centric solutions, and focusing on measurable success metrics.

Some of the notable platforms Robert has worked on include Salesforce Lightning Web Stack, Time Inc Content Platform, Amazon Digital Store Platform, and Amazon Website Application Platform.

Robert Duffy holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Heriot-Watt University Malaysia and has also studied at Emanuel School.

Currently, Robert serves as the Vice President of Development and Runtime Platform at Expedia Group.