Bernie Porter

Bernie is a Senior Director of Product Management at Visa, where she serves as a global product leader within Visa’s Value Added Services (VAS) organization, driving the strategy, development, and growth of transaction risk and fraud management solutions for merchants and acquiring banks. She leads a cross functional team responsible for products including Decision Manager, Visa’s enterprise transaction risk platform.

Across her tenure at Visa and Cybersource, Bernie has driven the evolution of strategic products in risk, fraud, reporting, and transaction management, leading platform modernizations, expanding product capabilities into new markets, and launching solutions for both acquirers and merchants.

Bernie began her career as a developer and transitioned into product management at PayPal, where she built an internal developer center supporting API documentation and the company’s shift toward modern REST APIs. Her technical foundation in UI engineering, API platforms, and enterprise payments enables her to connect product strategy with engineering execution.

She holds a BA in International Relations from the University of California, Davis, and an MA in International Policy Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Bernie lives in Austin, Texas, where she enjoys road cycling and rock climbing, two mountain loving pursuits that keep her searching for the tallest peaks Central Texas has to offer.