Darragh Buckley

Roadblock Title:

How to scale reliable infrastructure by continuously testing in the real world

Time:

Wednesday - 1:00 PM (Tower D)

Abstract:

Fintech engineers know the stakes of moving money at scale—especially for time-sensitive use cases like payroll, where if funds don’t land by 8:30am Friday, trust breaks. When you’re building critical infrastructure, how do you ensure your users can sleep soundly on Thursday night?

Our answer: continuously test against the messy, error-prone real world.

This talk explores why continuous real-world testing is essential; what tactics to use to surface issues before they impact users; and how transparently exposing testing can boost visibility, reliability and trust.

Lessons draw on firsthand experience: Darragh built money-movement systems at Stripe and now leads Increase, which processes billions each year. We’ll share what worked, what didn’t, and what we wish we’d known starting out.

Bio:

Darragh is the founder and CEO of Increase, an API-first banking core and issuer processor. Before Increase, Darragh was the first employee at Stripe, where he built and scaled financial operations and integrations with payment and banking networks. He’s a native of Limerick, Ireland and an MIT grad.