Helen Hou-Sandí is a Staff Software Engineering Manager for Accessibility at GitHub and a WordPress Lead Developer. As a technologist, she is a leader in open source software and management, and caree deeply about building great user experiences. She am also a classically-trained pianist who’s performed extensively worldwide.

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A wide-ranging podcast conversation with Helen Hou-Sandí, staff software engineering manager for accessibility at GitHub and lead WordPress developer. Topics include her non-traditional path from music to web development, parallels between music theory and programming discipline, the evolving role of engineers as AI generates more code, the importance of semantic HTML for accessibility, GitHub's 'maintainer tiny wins' initiative to address open source maintainer pain points, and why communication and code review skills matter more than ever in an AI-assisted development world.

Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Helen Hou-Sandí