Hire Darragh S. - Forward Deployed Engineer

At AppFolio, I own high-impact, customer-facing engineering projects that span legacy and modern codebases. I’ve designed and delivered multiple solutions that streamline workflows and unlock significant business value, often under tight timelines and ambiguous requirements. Led the integration of Custom Fields into document editors (Letters, Leases, Forms), enabling customers to consolidate reports and reduce manual labor. This project directly enabled the sales team to upsell customers thus increasing ARR. Designed and delivered enhancements to core accounting functionality around Journal Entries, learning a complex domain quickly and shipping a production-ready solution that allowed a strategic deal to close in a historically challenging U.S. region. Partner with product, sales, and internal teams to translate customer needs into scalable, maintainable solutions, balancing speed, quality, and long-term system stability.

As a Platform Engineer, I focused on building scalable infrastructure, improving developer productivity, and automating internal processes. My work helped modernize core tooling while reducing operational risk and improving system reliability. Introduced Bazel build tooling into the CI/CD pipeline, reducing CI costs by 25%, increasing stability, and enabling advanced capabilities like remote execution. Built internal tooling to automate security patching across 1,000+ repositories, reducing manual effort and ensuring organizational compliance. Collaborated across teams to implement platform improvements that enhanced developer experience, supported large-scale projects, and allowed for faster delivery of customer-facing solutions.

Skills: Infrastructure as code (IaC) · Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) · C# · AWS Lambda · Amazon S3 · Containerization · Continuous Integration (CI) · Python (Programming Language)