Mike McQuaid is a Principal Engineer at GitHub, currently working on improving internal developer and external maintainer experience in Communities. He is the author of Git in Practice, an intermediate Git book, and writes and speaks about open source, engineering career development, remote work, and empathy in tech on his site, podcasts and conferences. He has also been the project leader and maintainer of the Homebrew package manager for 12 years.
Mike McQuaid has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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Episode 126: GitHub Maintainer Month with Mike McQuaid of Homebrew and Nina Breznik of DatDot
June 24th, 2022 | 28 mins 39 secs
Mike of Homebrew talks about his experiences being a maintainer; Nina of DatDot shares how she helps other people see being a maintainer as art, not just science
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Episode 117: Mike McQuaid of Homebrew on Sustainably Working on OSS Projects
April 15th, 2022 | 45 mins 48 secs
Mike McQuaid shares on the history of Homebrew, his involvement in open source, boundary setting, and what software sustainability means for him.