B. Hedge is a technologist with nearly 30 years of experience spanning infrastructure, distributed systems, and engineering leadership. He currently works at Neural Payments, where he focuses on Artificial Intelligence, data architecture and security in a PCI environment — including end-to-end PGP encryption of cardholder data and a quantum-proof KMS tokenization solution for PANs.

Previously, he served as CTO of Lineage Bank, building out the technical foundation for both traditional banking and banking-as-a-service partnerships. Before that, he led cloud systems engineering at Elastic, managed the SRE team at npm, Inc., and held senior architecture and director-level roles at LeanKit and LifePoint Health.

His work sits at the intersection of deep technical craft and team leadership, with a long track record of building highly available systems, resilient data pipelines, and cohesive remote teams.