Mike McQuaid

Engineering and product leader with 18 years of experience reducing developer friction and scaling open source software used by tens of millions. Currently CTPO at Administrate and Homebrew Project Leader, former GitHub Principal Engineer (employee #232) who led initiatives including Merge Queue and internal developer environment, cofounder and former CTPO of Workbrew. Published author (Git in Practice), writer and frequent speaker (50+ talks) on engineering leadership, open source, automation, remote work and Git. Remote-first since 2009, with hands-on adoption of AI coding assistants and review tooling to increase velocity.