Michael R. Bock
Founder
California, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael 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.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
1,200reputation
145kreached
7answers
10questions
protocol-buffers
top-5%
Github Skills (110)
apollo10
autonomous-driving10
test-coverage10
mod-manager10
keyboard-shortcuts10
autonomous-vehicles10
autonomy10
prebuild10
self-driving-car10
protocol-buffers9
svg-files9
html9
icon-pack9
ruby9
coverage9
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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