Michael R. Bock

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States13 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Co-Founder of fastest-growing tax software company in US.
  • Raised $27M from top venture capital firms.
  • Expert in software engineering and product management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Automotive software engineer with strong product management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

Software DevelopmentTeam ManagementSimulationData AnalysisBackend DevelopmentAPI DevelopmentPythonDocumentationC++ProgrammingiOS developmentSystem AdministrationMarketing StrategyStart-upsWeb Development

Experience

13 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 5 mos
Average Tenure
2 mos
Current Experience

South park commons

Venture Partner/Advisor

Mar 2026Present · 2 mos

Column tax

2 roles

Product & Engineering at Aiwyn

Nov 2025Present · 6 mos

  • Column Tax was acquired by Aiwyn in Nov 2025. Aiwyn has raised >$100M from Bessemer, KKR, & others.

Co-Founder: Product & CTO

Feb 2021Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

  • Built the fastest-growing tax software company in US history to >1M returns filed. Raised $27M from Bain Capital Ventures, Felicis, & more. Hired & managed 50 amazing folks across Engineering, Product, & Design.
Product ManagementSoftware Engineering

Leaders in tech

Fellow

Feb 2025Nov 2025 · 9 mos

  • Highly recommend for any founder: leadersintech.org

South park commons

Member

Feb 2021Sep 2021 · 7 mos

  • southparkcommons.com/founder-fellowship

Aurora

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2021Feb 2021 · 1 mo

  • Aurora acquired Uber's Advanced Technologies Group.

Senior Software Engineer - Uber ATG

Dec 2019Jan 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Worked on simulation systems for self-driving cars.

Pioneer.app

Software Engineer

Mar 2019Dec 2019 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • nytimes.com/2018/08/09/technology/talent-opportunity-gap-pioneer-fund.html

Waymo

Software Engineer

Oct 2017Mar 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Worked on the simulation team: including evaluating self-driving car performance, building scalable backend infrastructure to "drive" billions of miles, storing and analyzing data, and building UI tools to view/modify simulations.
  • You can read more about what I worked on, CarCraft, here: bit.ly/WaymoCarCraft

Google

Software Engineer

Aug 2015Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Worked on YouTube's cross-platform (iOS, Android, Web, TV) internal API.
  • Allowed us to serve 1 million+ requests per second from a shared backend to hundreds of different client applications.
  • Received highest performance rating: Superb (given to fewer than 5% of Google engineers per review cycle).

Youtube

Software Engineer

Aug 2015Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Udacity

Software Engineering Intern

May 2014Apr 2015 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Improved page speed by more than 10x (5000ms to 120ms) across web, iOS, and Android apps by implementing a reverse proxy caching system in Python
  • Designed and implemented public API from the ground up

Edmunds.com

Software Engineer & Developer Advocate Intern

Aug 2013May 2014 · 9 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

  • Supported & evangelized developer API program; wrote documentation & examples
  • Wrote SDKs in multiple languages to support 3rd-party software development
  • Read what my manager had to say about my work here: bit.ly/EdmundsIntern

Boeing

Software Engineering Intern

May 2013Aug 2013 · 3 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

  • - Worked on embedded C++ software for satellite flight control and command

Usc credit union

Student Programmer/Analyst

Mar 2012May 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Education

University of Southern California

B.S. — Computer Science and Business Administration

CodePath

iOS Development

National University of Singapore

Human Computer Interaction (Study Abroad Program)

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