BRENDAN
DEVENNEY

STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER · EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND

CURRENT

Staff Software Engineer

Approov

Protecting leading brands with state-of-the-art mobile security solutions.

PREVIOUSLY

Previous roles

2023–25
Head of Engineering (European Payments) · Form3

Delivering SEPA Instant, Credit Transfer, and Direct Debit at scale. Empowering household brands like Klarna.

2022–23
Head of Engineering (International) · Form3

Launched Form3's SWIFT offering with Goldman Sachs, enabling cross-border payments in 124 currencies.

2021–22
Lead Engineer · Form3

Delivered Mastercard's PayPort+, shaping the future of UK Faster Payments.

2019–21
Senior Engineer · Form3

Built the foundations of the Form3 payments platform.

2018–19
Cloud Improvement Engineer · Cloudreach

Guided enterprises through cloud transformations.

2014–18
Software Engineer · Approov

Developed and commercialised a mobile runtime protection (RASP) platform.

2013–14
Software Test Engineer · Approov

Industrial placement year, contributing to testing and early development of performance engineering tools.

My dearest Erin,

Tonight will mark the end of a life long dream of mine. The completion of a labour I began as a child, even before I knew the words for it. Before I knew the ways to accomplish such a task. Even now my heart is heavy with dread; I fear I've built a great and powerful evil. Or rather, together, Albert and I have built it. I know that I am to blame. I allowed Albert to persuade me to change the designs. I allowed this perversion of my course.

This new machine that we've built is unlike any I ever imagined. It looks... like a man. A lifeless steel man. Albert convinced me that even with the new Geological Unmanned Terraforming System we designed, the task of extracting the ore is still too dangerous for a human. He plans to completely replace human workers in the mining sector. The idea of displacing so many men... the annihilation of countless jobs in the name of safety seems an unbalanced trade off. What is worse, the latest prototypes have been revised to carry small firearms.

Erin, I fear that I have put you and this entire city in danger. I will speak to him tonight on the matter. Perhaps I can persuade him to scrap the whole project. In the meantime, please be careful. This world is getting darker all the time.

I weep at the thought of something terrible happening to you. I could not bear it.

All my love,
Brendan