Darragh Griffin
Principal Software Engineer at Roblox
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarragh Griffin is a Principal Software Engineer based in California with 11 years of experience building social and avatar systems at Roblox, where he progressed from client intern to senior and now principal roles driving Sharing and Social features. A Dublin City University graduate in Computational Problem Solving and Software Development, he blends competitive programming discipline with hands-on game-development expertise across C++, Lua, Three.js and Python. He’s been instrumental in launching features like emotes, avatar scaling, in-app avatar experiences, screenshot sharing and QR-code friending, and helped establish Roblox engineering presence in China. Known for improving developer-facing APIs and client performance, he combines product-focused engineering with a knack for optimizing user-facing systems that scale to millions of players.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computational Problem Solving and Software Development, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computational Problem Solving and Software Development at Dublin City UniversityArdscoil Rís Limerick
English, Chinese
Github Skills (21)
roblox10
documentation10
roblox-studio9
lua8
bug-tracker8
fen7
react6
polyglot6
parsing5
chess5
uci5
python4
linter3
luacheck3
react-redux2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DarraghGriffin/Studio-Tools
Jul 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
roblox-studioluabuilt-inroblox
DarraghGriffin/Core-Scripts
Jul 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 202 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 2 months
roblox
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