Hi, I'm Michael.
I'm a product leader and builder focused on mobile products, customer problems, and the craft of making things people actually use. I've helped scale products across iOS, Android, and Web.
The longer version.
I'm a product leader who has spent most of my career building mobile-first products from early idea to meaningful scale. I've worked across product strategy, roadmap, design systems, prototyping, front-end development, iOS and Android workflows, customer discovery, and the messy middle where product decisions turn into real shipped behavior.
My strongest work happens close to the customer. At sportsYou, that has meant understanding the everyday communication problems inside high school athletics and turning them into product loops that coaches, athletes, parents, and athletic directors can actually use.
I still make music and visual work because it keeps my taste sharp. Producing tracks, playing bass, drawing, and making small experiments all feed the same muscle I use in product: structure, rhythm, constraint, and iteration to find the right solution.
Find me on the rest of the internet.
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Music
soundcloud.com/golden-sails
My electronic music project.
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Code
github.com/mhirst
Open-source weekend things and the occasional fork.
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LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/mjhirst
Work history, recommendations, and the occasional post.