Michael Bock
Product & Engineering At Aiwyn at Column Tax
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Bock is a product-focused engineering leader and founder with 12 years of experience building scalable systems across startups and tech giants, currently leading Product & Engineering at Aiwyn after co-founding Column Tax and scaling it to over 1M returns and a $27M raise. He combines hands-on backend and simulation engineering (Waymo, Aurora) with API and performance expertise from Google/YouTube, and has a track record of shipping high-throughput services and developer-facing tools. An early hacker and PennApps winner, he pairs deep technical craft—embedded C++, large-scale simulation backends, and caching systems—with product intuition and team building, having hired and managed 50 engineers, product, and design staff. Active in the founder community as a South Park Commons member and advisor, he also mentors others into tech and continually learns via university-level courses and side projects.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science and Business Administration, B.S., Computer Science and Business Administration at University of Southern CaliforniaHuman Computer Interaction (Study Abroad Program), Human Computer Interaction (Study Abroad Program) at National University of SingaporeiOS Development, iOS Development at CodePath
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (137)
macos-big-sur10
apollo10
autonomous-driving10
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keyboard-shortcuts10
autonomous-vehicles10
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autonomy10
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machine-learning10
self-driving-car10
window-management10
protocol-buffers9
mod-manager9
keyboard9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
michaelrbock/notes
Dec 2018 - Oct 2020
:notebook: Notes on books, articles, talks, videos, podcasts, and more
Contributions:54 commits, 6 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 year 10 months
notespodcastnotebookvideospodcasts
michaelrbock/michaelrbock.github.io
Sep 2018 - Jan 2025
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Contributions:1 PR, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
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