Educated at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh PA, Keio University in Tokyo Japan, and Golden Gate University School of Law, he possesses a Juris Doctorate in law and is licensed to practice by the California Bar Association.

Having prepared between 20,000 and 30,000 tax returns over the years he has encountered almost every individual tax issue imaginable. His clients rely heavily upon his knowledge of employee stock options, self-employment, rental real estate, cryptocurrency, estate planning, and international tax issues.

He possesses extensive experience dealing with the industries of software development, performing and visual arts, multimedia entertainment, real estate, and construction.

As an avid supporter of the arts, he has amassed an impressive collection of artwork from some of the Bay Area's most innovative artists. Every year he lends his talents to a number of local non-profit organizations supporting Bay Area film and music.

Most tax preparers can't say they've been juggling numbers since middle school. Mr Vantuyl is not most tax preparers. When most of his peers were learning to ride a bicycle, he cut his teeth on bookkeeping and later accounting for his family's business.

After receiving a BS in Computer Science from Missouri State University, he started out as an IT architect for SMBs in southwestern Missouri. He moved to the Bay Area to found a tech startup in 2008 and spent the next decade and a half as a technical leader.

His deep experience building businesses, unique perspective as a tech insider, keen intellect, and extraordinary attention to detail makes him a natural at deciphering the tax code and establishing an effective tax posture for your company.

Still an active software engineer in his spare time, he contributes to various Open Source software projects. You can find his code in an Arctic Code Vault, the Linux kernel, and a helicopter on Mars. He is Github User #101.