# hello, world

Mike Hirsch

role: solution-architectregion: denver-cofocus: ipaas, integrationsaltitude: 5280ft

I design systems for a living. Below is my attempt to document the most complicated one I maintain: myself.

Mike in sunglasses, smiling next to his dog Penny, who wears a floral bandana, in a sunny backyard — fig_01.jpgcore service + critical dependency

Architecture

diagram v1 · not to scale

INPUTS

Diet Coke
Chinese food
Protein

EVENT SUBSCRIPTIONS

Denver Nuggets
New York Yankees
Pickup basketball

CRITICAL DEPENDENCY

Penny, the dog

sweetness: 100%

CORE SERVICEmikeuptime: high
latency: one Diet Coke

SCHEDULED JOBS

Hiking
Cycling
Strength training
Overlanding

CACHE

Films, preferably in a theatre, old and new
Where Penny's treats are hidden

SELF-HOSTED

Homelab running a media server, tool server, local LLMs, and more

Work

$ mike --current-role

Solution Architect, Rocketlane

Rocketlane builds an AI-powered PSA platform. My background is in iPaaS and integrations, so I like turning a whiteboard full of boxes and arrows into something a team can actually build.

Other endpoints

1 public route

GET /photos

Three giraffes above the bush in golden light

Photographs

## contacthi@mikehirsch.net

Response SLA: faster during the Nuggets offseason.