Talks
Hypervelocity Engineering: The End of Slow Dev
Delivered October 3, 2025
Imagine spinning up infrastructure, shipping to production, and onboarding new devs—all in minutes, not days. Welcome to Hypervelocity Engineering (HVE). This talk introduces HVE as a framework for radically reducing the friction in software delivery using AI-assisted tooling, infrastructure-as-code, automated pipelines, and environment standardization. It’s not about moving fast and breaking things—it’s about building systems so smooth, speed is the natural state.
Getting Rid of CRUD: Revealing Intent With Your API
Published September 17, 2020
How can we create an API that is resilient, flexible, and adaptable to change? This talk discusses how we can extend the language of Domain Driven Design to create intention-revealing APIs.
The Product Minded Engineer (RenderATL 2022)
Published July 15, 2022
Learning to think holistically about the product and its users is important to growth. Michael talks about the principles of a Product-Minded Engineer at RenderATL 2022.
Juneteenth Conference (Technology and Friends)
Published July 10, 2023
Michael Brown discusses the Juneteenth conference - a conference for African American technologists. He talks about organizing the conference, speaker diversity, and the impact of the event.
From Juneteenth to UML in Color (Add Dot)
Published July 26, 2022
Michael discusses his journey in tech, his 30+ years of experience, his work organizing the Juneteenth Conference, and applying UML in Color.