Information Systems Department Advisory Board

Brendan Kingsford

Membership Information:

Member Since: 2025

Employment:

Job Title: Engineering Manager
Company: Apple

Biography:

Brendan graduated from BYU with a MISM and Bachelor of Science, Information Systems, in 2014. After graduation, he joined Apple as a software engineer. In his career at Apple, he has led development of a variety of large scale software platforms including on assignment in Tokyo, Japan where he led the deployment and integration of Apple Pay in Japan - the first Apple Pay iteration to support public transit transactions.

Brendan currently serves as a senior software engineering manager overseeing Apple’s primary productivity, planning, testing, and issue tracking platform.

Brendan resides in Austin, Texas with his wife Meghan and their 6 children. In between sports and dance classes, they enjoy trying new Austin restaurants, learning to garden, and following BYU sports.