Named for the volcano in the neighborhood.
Mount Tabor is an extinct cinder cone inside Portland's city limits — quiet, solid, and still very much part of the landscape. It felt like the right namesake for a practice built on durable work rather than churn.
Fewer things, more care.
I'm Will Simmons, a full-stack engineer with over ten years of shipping software behind me, most recently five years at IBM Consulting, delivering for federal and state agencies and Fortune 500 clients. I started Foundry Tabor because the best work I've ever done happened when the distance between client and engineer was zero.
So that's the whole model: direct relationships, senior-level work, no handoffs. When you engage the practice, you're working with me; connected from the first email to the last deploy.
The unusual detail on the resume is a B.A. in English from Brown. It turns out to matter: half of engineering is writing: proposals, architecture decisions, documentation, the email that keeps a project calm. Clear prose and clear code come from the same place.
How the work gets done.
Direct, always
You talk to the person writing the code. Questions get answered by someone with the file open.
Working software wins
Progress is something you can click, not a slide. Weekly cadence, honest demos, no theater.
Built to hand over
Documentation and transfer are part of the scope. Good consulting makes itself unnecessary.
Honest fit
If the project needs a team of ten or a different specialty, I'll say so on the first call.
Rooted here, working anywhere.
Foundry Tabor is an Oregon LLC based in Portland, working remotely with clients across the U.S. The practice keeps West Coast hours and overlaps generously with every mainland time zone.