Brian Muenzenmeyer
Bio
- Author, Approachable Open Source
- nodejs.org Maintainer, Web-Infra, Moderation, Triage teams
With a career spanning many roles, from engineer, maintainer, UX team of one, product manager, analyst, and freelancer, Brian brings an experienced and broad approach to many disciplines. He and his wife Megan’s small business keeps them exhausted and grounded in customer delivery, innovation, and warrantee-voiding laser maintenance. He’s been published in Smashing Magazine, CSS-Tricks, Shop Talk Show, Sustain, and led workshops at Web Design Day and the Node.js Collaborator Summit. He maintains the Node.js website, and has organized consecutive Grace Hopper hackathons towards first contributions from attendees. Open source software threads into many aspects of his life, and has opened doors he’d never thought imaginable. It can do that for you too. Much of this culminated in the writing of Approachable Open Source. Give it a read.
When not writing or working within open source software, Brian lives out programming tropes of drinking coffee and woodworking. He enjoys soccer, playing games with his sons, especially X-Wing or Chess, and never turns down a milkshake. Him and Megan spend as much time outside as they can muster, often playing with their kids, deepening the pickleball rivalry on their makeshift court, chasing clouds, or digging up the yard.
Presenting Sessions
Participating Sessions
- Lead Where You Are: The Skill of Intentional Adaptability
- You Love It—So Why Are You Exhausted? The Burnout Puzzle
- 💎 DevTool Diamonds: Power Features You Didn’t Know Existed
- Accessibility: Adding "Why" to the "How"
- Back to the <Future />: A Brief History of Web Development
- 2 questions - the keys to solving *ANY* problem
- Don’t Be That Boss: Applying Hard Learned Lessons in Leadership
- Open Source Technology and The Future of Civic Tech
- Do I still need this dependency for my Node.js app?
- Legacy Software Maintenance - You didn't build it, but you have to fix it.
- Dev + Design: Improving Web Accessibility in 5 Easy Steps
- Building Efficient & Resilient Engineering Teams
- Code, Cloth, and the Loom: The lore and legacy of textiles and technology
- Better communication: advertise your work so others can understand it
- Designing for Crisis: ‘This information can save lives’
- People Debt: The Hidden Cost Holding Your Team Back
- Go Against Your Default: Why ‘Trust Your Gut’ Is Keeping You Small
- From Friction to Consensus: Tools for Tackling Tough Conversations for Partners & Teams
- The IKEA Effect: Why Your Team Can’t Follow What’s Only in Your Head
- This Machine ____s Fascists (fill in the blank)