About Me

I'm Darrel O'Pry — a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience building digital products and leading engineering teams. I'm the founder and principal at The Spry Group, a full-service digital product agency specializing in product strategy, engineering, and operations.

• Product & Engineering Leadership: Helping startups and established companies design, build, and scale digital products with modern cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Current Focus: Working extensively with Wagtail and headless CMS architectures, combining Django backends with Next.js/React frontends. Maintainer of django-oauth-toolkit and contributor to wagtail-grapple for GraphQL integration.
• Energy & Building Analytics: BPI Certified Multifamily Building Analyst working with energy engineering firms to build backend data aggregation, analysis, and reporting tools for building performance and energy efficiency projects.
• Open Source Legacy: Long-time contributor to the Drupal ecosystem, known for pioneering work on media handling (ImageField, ImageCache, ImageAPI) and file management systems that influenced modern CMS architectures.
• Full-Stack Expertise: From OAuth/authentication systems and GraphQL APIs to React/Next.js frontends, with deep experience in pragmatic architecture, developer experience, and shipping reliable software.
• Mentorship & Community: Passionate about helping teams bridge strategy, design, and engineering; advocate for lean, testable workflows and continuous improvement.

Profiles

• LinkedIn
• GitHub
• Twitter/X

Recent Writing

• Lost Content? Did you check Wayback Machine?
• Announcing Pecans, an update server for Squirrel
• Admin tools for GitHub Pages
• Agile Project Management on GitHub
• .NET Click Once Side by Side Deployment

Contact

For inquiries, collaborations, or speaking engagements, reach out via LinkedIn or visit spry-group.com/contact.