Brian Hobbs
Senior Vice President - Merchant Infrastructure Technology at Global Payments Inc.
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Hobbs is a seasoned technology executive based in Austin with 20+ years of experience modernizing payments infrastructure and enabling AI-driven capabilities across global merchant platforms. Currently Senior Vice President of Merchant Infrastructure Technology at Global Payments, he has repeatedly moved from hands-on engineering to executive leadership roles, shaping cloud, DevSecOps, data engineering, and payment settlement systems. His background as a full-stack developer fluent in JavaScript frameworks and Ruby on Rails informs pragmatic decisions that bridge developer productivity and enterprise reliability. At Netspend he led global technology services and software development for over a decade, driving large-scale migrations, reporting/analytics, and operational resilience. He combines an engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon with a track record of building production-grade systems since the NeXT era, bringing both deep technical fluency and strategic execution. Colleagues describe him as a builder who still enjoys rolling up his sleeves to prototype solutions that cut operational risk and accelerate product delivery.
7 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy (Double Major), BS, Electrical Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy (Double Major) at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (1)
boilerplate1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
4codings/Morning-T-React-Rails
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:86 commits, 1 branch in 11 days
4codings/ReactHooks-ApolloClient-ContextAPI-Boilerplate
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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