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: