Brian Michel
Engineering Manager at The Browser Company
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Michel is an engineering manager with 17 years of experience leading client and infrastructure engineering teams for consumer-facing products at companies like The Browser Company, Cash App, Twitter, Tumblr, and Ando. He specializes in building cross-functional, scalable organizations—creating apprenticeship programs, onboarding standards, and horizontal platform teams that accelerate product delivery. Hands-on with mobile and Chromium-based engineering, he balances technical depth with coaching managers and fostering async collaboration across global teams. Known for pragmatic technology evaluation, he adopts new tools judiciously and drives measurable process improvements like faster ship cycles and CI leadership. Based in New York, he brings a blend of product-focused engineering, people leadership, and an appetite for creative problem solving. He also has a quirky interpersonal touch—he genuinely enjoys meeting people with interesting hair.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Systems, Human Computer Interaction, Business, BS, Information Systems, Human Computer Interaction, Business at Drexel University
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Github Skills (200)
swiftui10
apple-silicon10
camera10
audio-processing10
apm10
crash-reports10
programming-language10
puredata10
python10
menubar10
django10
edge-function10
software-update10
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
brianmichel/Marconio
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
A simple NTS.live macOS application
Contributions:10 releases, 125 commits, 28 PRs in 1 year
macosntsradioioscomposable-architecture
brianmichel/nomad-driver-tart
Jun 2025 - May 2026
An experimental task driver for Nomad using the Tart virtualization tool.
Contributions:1 release, 50 PRs, 62 pushes in 11 months
drivervirtualizationcimacosnomad
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