Meet the speaker:

Mike McQuaid

Principal Engineer,

GitHub

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.

Talks & Content

2022

Mike McQuaid – Ignorance, Incompetence and Insignificance: The Ingredients To Build Great Software

2018

How to Not Fail at Using Open-Source Software in Your Organisation

Almost every company today uses open source software to do business (whether they know it or not). Almost every company isn’t using open source software as effectively as they could. Learn from GitHub’s Mike McQuaid about how to use open source software in your organisation without succumbing to the most common of pitfalls.

2017

Effective Open Source Interactions

Everyone is using open source software now but most people have not figured out how to interact effectively with the open source software community. Mike McQuaid explains how to improve your open source software interactions whether as a user, contributor or maintainer.