mikemcquaid
Product and engineering leader, ex-@GitHub Principal Engineer, 18 years of experience reducing developer friction and scaling @Homebrew to >10,000,000 users.
Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/MikeMcQuaid
- Name: Mike McQuaid
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Company: @Workbrew
- Kind: user
- Followers: 4024
- Following: 0
- Total stars: 4016
- Repositories count: 41
- Created at: 2022-11-02T21:00:37.430Z
- Updated at: 2025-06-26T06:55:17.595Z
- Last synced at: 2025-06-26T06:55:17.595Z
GitHub Sponsors Profile
I'm the Homebrew Project Leader and maintainer for 13+ years, creator of Strap, author of Git in Practice and sporadic contributor to a long-tail of open source software projects.
I worked at GitHub for a decade but don't any longer so would greatly appreciate your financial support, thanks!
- Current Sponsors: 5
- Past Sponsors: 52
- Total Sponsors: 57
- Minimum Sponsorship: $1.00
Featured Works
Homebrew/brew
🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
Language: Ruby - Stars: 44059MikeMcQuaid/strap
👢 Bootstrap your macOS development system.
Language: Shell - Stars: 2261Homebrew/homebrew-bundle
💀 Homebrew/bundle (merged into Homebrew/brew)
Language: - Stars: 5485MikeMcQuaid/GitInPractice
📖 An opinionated intermediate/advanced Git book
Language: - Stars: 1051Homebrew/homebrew-core
🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
Language: Ruby - Stars: 14433Homebrew/homebrew-cask
🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
Language: Ruby - Stars: 21421Active Sponsors
Past Sponsors
Sponsor Breakdown
- User: 43
- Organization: 3