# MipYip — Alex van Rossum

> Fractional CTO and AI Systems Architect. I design the governance, infrastructure, and agent systems that make AI operationally trustworthy. This site documents technical case studies, the Pass@1 governance-first AI development methodology, open-source macOS tools, and a blog on AI governance, cognitive offloading, and systems thinking.

## About the Author

Alex van Rossum is a Fractional CTO and AI Systems Architect based in the Atlanta metro area, Georgia. He specializes in technical leadership for organizations that have outgrown their existing engineering capacity — designing the governance, infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, EKS), and agent systems that make AI operationally trustworthy at scale. He also works in Salesforce architecture, vendor evaluation, crisis-response infrastructure recovery, and macOS application development. He developed Pass@1, a governance-first AI development methodology where architecture documents, coding standards, and constraint boundaries make AI agents productive session after session.

- Site: https://mipyip.com
- Blog: https://mipyip.com/blog
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexander-v
- GitHub: https://github.com/avanrossum

## Key Pages

- [About](https://mipyip.com/about): Background, expertise, and approach
- [Approach](https://mipyip.com/approach): How Alex works — methodology, tools, philosophy
- [Case Studies](https://mipyip.com/work): Technical deep dives into real projects
- [Blog](https://mipyip.com/blog): Writing on AI governance, cognitive offloading, ADHD-aware systems
- [Lab](https://mipyip.com/lab): Experimental projects and tools
- [Contact](https://mipyip.com/contact): Get in touch

## Software Products

- [SideMark](https://mipyip.com/products/sidemark): Free, open-source markdown editor for macOS built for AI co-editing workflows. Three-way merge, per-hunk diff, git gutter, auto-save. MIT licensed.
- [Actions](https://mipyip.com/products/actions): macOS menu bar quick-action launcher. Scripts, shortcuts, links, folders — one click away. Coming soon.
- [Panoptisana](https://mipyip.com/products/panoptisana): Open-source Asana visibility tool for macOS. Tasks, projects, inbox from the menu bar.

## Case Studies

- [Sysadmin Claude](https://mipyip.com/work/sysadmin-claude): An autonomous infrastructure agent that SSHes into production servers, runs kubectl against a live EKS cluster, and gets faster every session through self-maintaining institutional knowledge.
- [Kubernetes Migration](https://mipyip.com/work/kubernetes-migration): The control plane died, SSH keys lost, certs expiring. Built a new EKS cluster and migrated 260 production deployments solo, zero downtime.
- [AWS Governance](https://mipyip.com/work/aws-governance): An AI agent audited years of AWS drift — cut $954/mo (30.9%) in 5 working days with zero production incidents.
- [Salesforce Architecture](https://mipyip.com/work/salesforce-architecture): 32,000 metadata changes across five integrated systems. Delivered what three years of prior effort couldn't.
- [AI Sprint Management](https://mipyip.com/work/ai-sprint-management): A human-in-the-loop AI agent that cut daily PM overhead from three hours to under one.
- [Actions Development](https://mipyip.com/work/actions-development): 24 beta releases in 18 days, built solo with Claude Code under governance-first methodology.
- [Agent Mail](https://mipyip.com/work/agent-mail): Async coordination between AI agents using Git as the mail server and Markdown as the message format.
- [Life Roadmap](https://mipyip.com/work/life-roadmap): Enterprise architecture applied to personal life management — version control, autonomous agents, separation of concerns.

## Methodology

**Pass@1** is a development methodology where governance documents are thorough enough that AI generates correct implementations on the first attempt. The governance documents — ROADMAP.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, CLAUDE.md, CHANGELOG.md — give AI agents persistent memory across sessions.

- [The methodology explained](https://mipyip.com/blog/what-is-pass-at-1)
- [The files that make it work](https://mipyip.com/blog/the-governance-documents)
- [Why governance is a design decision, not a compliance one](https://mipyip.com/blog/governance-is-architecture)

## Optional

- [llms-full.txt](https://mipyip.com/llms-full.txt): Extended version with full blog index and descriptions