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About Us

SLO Software Shop is an engineering-first studio, offering thoughtful product design & development for fast-moving startups.

Our Space

Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo

We're based out of a storefront on Monterey Street in downtown San Luis Obispo — right between the Mission and the foothills. It's a small town with a Cal Poly campus, great coffee, and the kind of pace that lets you think clearly about hard problems.

Aerial view of SLO Software Shop on Monterey Street

Our Team

Noah MacDonald

Noah MacDonald

Member of Technical Staff Atascadero, CA

Noah builds data-intensive interactive software from a background in analytics and developer tooling. He's drawn to the kind of product work where the interface is the hard problem: data visualization, diagramming, spreadsheet-like surfaces, and conversational AI.

After dropping out of Cal Poly SLO, he joined Google, where he shipped applications like the LookML Diagram and Data Dictionary to the Looker Marketplace. Since then he's owned core product surfaces across startups at different stages — workflow automation, complex dashboarding, and most recently product work on an AI data analyst at Zenlytic.

Tools & Technologies

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Node / Express
  • Redux
  • Next.js
  • SQL
  • NX
  • fp-ts
  • Chakra UI
  • React Flow
  • Vega / d3
  • Storybook
  • LLMs
  • Omni / dbt
  • Looker