Hi there.

My name is Michael R. Bock. I’m a software engineer living and working in California.

I’m generally interested in technology, software architecture, scaling software organizations, startups, politics, autonomous vehicles and cities.

I read and respond to every personal message I get. To get in touch, DM me on Twitter.

Work history:

Some projects I’ve worked on:

ReclaimIQ: a service that makes it much easier to reclaim Unclaimed Property that’s been handed over to the government (over $55 billion in the US)!
TopTweets.by: go to TopTweets.by/@username to easily see someone’s popular tweets.
Sesh: a way for engineers and designers to train more like athletes.
Sludge: an app to reclaim the time we spend on social media and ensure that time actually aligns with our long-term goals.
SelfDriving.fyi: a comprehensive list of every company working on autonomous vehicles. You can listen to me talk about this project on this podcast.
Detailed notes on the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications and an associated Anki deck.
CarCraft: Waymo’s simulated world for testing self-driving cars.
Some things I launched at Pioneer.
InnerTube: YouTube’s first-party API for iOS/Android/Web/TV.
Udacity’s first public API (here’s some ancient documentation I wrote).
The Edmunds.com API and associated wrappers.

Looking to improve as a software engineer? Here are some resources I highly recommend: