Salish Foundry builds and operates a small portfolio of software products, and offers selective engineering services to teams that need senior hands and a steady anvil. We work slowly, with the patience of weather.
Salish Foundry is a privately held studio based in the foothills of the Cascade range. We design, build, and operate software products on our own terms, and partner with a short list of teams who want senior engineering applied to hard problems.
The work is patient and tactile. We favor durable systems over novelty, plain code over cleverness, and quiet release cycles over loud roadmaps. The portfolio is intentionally small so that each product gets the attention it deserves.
Engagements are kept lean — usually one or two principals embedded with your team. We don't subcontract, we don't pad timelines, and we say no often enough to mean it when we say yes.
The first is our own portfolio of products — built to be sold, licensed, or operated as standalone businesses. The second is a small consulting practice that brings the same craft to other teams.
We build small, opinionated applications for niches we know well — tools we'd want to use ourselves. Each is offered as a standalone purchase, a license, or a managed service.
Senior engineering for teams that need a steady hand on a hard problem — architecture, performance, infrastructure, or rescue work on systems that have outgrown their original shape.
When the systems beneath your product start to slow you down — deploy pipelines, observability, data stores, internal tooling — we set them right and document them so your team owns them after we leave.
A small number of standing retainers for founders and engineering leaders. Monthly working sessions, quick-turn reviews, and a private line for the moments when the right next step isn't obvious.
The Salish Sea drains a country of rivers, mountains, and fog. The town of North Bend sits at the eastern edge of the lowlands, where the Snoqualmie River bends north and the Cascades begin to rise in earnest. It is a working landscape — logging, railroads, hydroelectric — and a quiet one.
We chose the name Salish Foundry because the work we want to do is more like the work of this place than the work of a campus. Slower. More material. Built to weather.
We take a small number of engagements each quarter and we read every note. Expect a reply within two business days from a principal — never a sales desk.