Michael Poon
Co-Founder at Tabula Bio
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Poon is a product and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling consumer and developer-facing products across startups and large tech firms. As a co-founder now leading Tabula Bio and working on a stealth project, he blends hands-on technical judgment from early software roles at Microsoft and Twitch with senior product leadership at Release. He has repeatedly moved between founding teams and operational roles—co-founding System2 Technologies and serving as COO—demonstrating both strategic vision and executional rigor. Based in San Francisco, he’s skilled at turning ambiguous problems into product roadmaps that ship, especially in fast-paced, high-growth environments. His background in EECS from MIT informs a pragmatic engineering-first approach to product decisions. Less obvious: he pivots comfortably between developer evangelism and executive product strategy, making him effective at aligning engineering teams with market needs.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (33)
api10
deep-learning8
faunadb8
ai8
pytorch8
filemaker7
stable-diffusion7
image-generation7
react7
client-library7
gradio6
balena6
nodejs6
embeddable6
text2image6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mpoon/dotfiles
Oct 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
mpoon/mpoon.github.io
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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