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Noah MacDonald

@noahmacdonald

Builds analytics-heavy frontend products, most recently an AI data analyst that turns business questions into accurate, trusted, insightful answers.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to build analytics-heavy frontend products where I can apply my background to ship new features.

Senior Frontend Engineer at Zenlytic (1.7 yrs), leading the core chat experience plus the query builder, workflows, and MCP experiences for Zoe. Previously built Looker’s LookML Diagram at Google and shipped Marketplace data products installed by almost all Looker customers. At People.ai (2.5 yrs), owned the frontend monorepo including design system and core spreadsheets, charts, and relationship-maps UI libraries; led frontend development for the SalesAI conversational analytics product.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Frontend Engineer

Current

Zenlytic

Oct 2024 - Present (1 year 9 months)

Built Zoe, an AI data analyst; led core chat, query builder, workflows, and MCP experiences. Helped AI agents answer self-serve analytics questions with better visualizations and semantic data models.

AI Data Analyst Data Visualization Semantic Data Models Workflow Design MCP

Current

Freelance Fullstack Dev

Current

Freelance

Jan 2018 - Present (8 years 6 months)

Worked as a freelance fullstack and analytics engineer (specific details not provided in the source).

Software Engineer

PermitFlow

Apr 2024 - Oct 2024 (6 months)

Worked on a contract basis to bring the pre-construction permitting process to a digital platform. Led a frontend rewrite to TypeScript+React and built form builders, document-processing workflows, and rich-text spreadsheets UI.

TypeScript React Form Builder Document Processing

Frontend Engineer

People.ai

Aug 2021 - Feb 2024 (2 years 6 months)

Founding engineer on the Application Experiences team with a focus on spreadsheets and data visualization. Owned the frontend monorepo (design system and core UI libraries) and led frontend development for the SalesAI conversational analytics product.

Design Systems Spreadsheets Data Visualization Charts Conversational Analytics

Web Solutions Engineer

Google (Looker)

Mar 2020 - Aug 2021 (1 year 5 months)

Worked on Looker Marketplace and Developer Tools & Applications teams, leading development for the LookML Diagram project. Led entity relationship diagramming, a data dictionary, and an API explorer, and implemented a developer portal website.

LookML Entity Relationship Diagram API Explorer

Data Analyst

Looker

Jun 2019 - Mar 2020 (9 months)

Responsible for most third-party data models (Blocks), applications, and visualizations available on the Looker Marketplace. Designed and built custom internal tooling and Looker dashboards for the Marketplace team.

Tooling Dashboarding