# Software development in Portland, OR > Athletic and outdoor apparel headquartered on the west side, semiconductor manufacturing in Hillsboro, and consumer brands selling worldwide from one metro. If you're one of them, AI in your catalogue, supply chain or customer conversation touches data about a person, and the system has to know whose. Canonical: https://www.techfabric.com/custom-software-development-portland Serving: Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Lake Oswego, Vancouver, Tigard, Gresham Headquarters: 1530 E Williams Field Rd, Ste 201, Gilbert, AZ 85295. No office in Portland. --- ## Why Portland work is our work Your commerce roadmap has stalled waiting for engineers, and orders still break halfway between factories, carriers and warehouses. Our senior engineers work inside your team to build the platform and the integrations, with workflows where a step that waits days never half-completes. The athletic and outdoor brands around Beaverton make that Portland's signature problem, and a credit union or a distributor in the Rivergate industrial district runs the same process at a smaller scale. ## Dynamics 365 consultants in Portland Portland's apparel and footwear brands, outdoor gear makers and the suppliers to Hillsboro's chip fabs use Dynamics 365 Business Central for variants, wholesale orders and global inventory. We implement it with Dynamics 365 CRM and connect it to factories, 3PLs and ecommerce platforms. [Dynamics 365 consulting in Phoenix](https://www.techfabric.com/dynamics-365-consulting-phoenix) ยท [Power BI consulting in Phoenix](https://www.techfabric.com/power-bi-consulting-phoenix) ## Work a buyer here would recognise Built to cut operating expense and reliance on manual work, Funko's warehouse management system doubled operational efficiency. It's the study for a consumer brand whose orders move from factory to carrier to warehouse and need to get through the same building without adding hands. ## Oregon's privacy law asks who you shared it with The Oregon Consumer Privacy Act took effect on 1 July 2024, and one right in it goes further than most state laws. A consumer can ask for the names of the specific third parties their data went to. In Portland that lands on the athletic and outdoor brands around Beaverton, which also answer to California's law and, for fitness or health data on shoppers across the river in Vancouver, Washington's My Health My Data Act. ## Questions ### Portland is far north of Gilbert. Is the working day harder? Less than you'd think. Our 115+ engineers work across four offices. The only US one is in Gilbert, Arizona, and the others are in Amsterdam, Dnipro and Hyderabad. Delivery is remote or hybrid, and we travel for discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build, flying into PDX. Arizona stays on standard time, so from March to November Pacific time matches ours, and in winter we're an hour ahead of you, which still leaves the whole working day shared. ### Can you track our reefers from packhouse to the Port of Portland? Yes. The Port of Portland's Terminal 6 has 620 refrigerated container connections, so a Portland exporter's chilled cargo can wait under power at the terminal before it sails. We'd build the tracking around the container, pulling temperature readings, the booking and the terminal's gate events into one timeline per box. If a reading drifts, the right person hears about it while the container is still on the dock, and the record is there when a buyer asks about the cold chain. Sources: [The Port of Portland's Terminal 6](https://www.portofportland.com/Terminal6) ### Should our Portland distribution business rebuild its order system or buy one? Buy the parts that are standard and build the parts that make you different. Trade, transportation and utilities is the Portland metro's largest sector, at 215,000 jobs against 212,600 in education and health services (Bureau of Labor Statistics, September 2026, preliminary), and we'd expect packaged systems to cover the common shape of distribution well. Where we'd build is the edge, like custom pricing rules or a wholesale portal your customers rely on, and connect it to a packaged ERP. That keeps your own code small enough for your team to own. Sources: [Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.or_portland_msa.htm) ### Can you build a consumer platform that satisfies state privacy laws? Yes, by making the data model answer the questions the laws ask: what we hold about a person, where it came from, who has read it, and how it is deleted. Access resolves at read time through the catalogue, the event trail shows every use, and a deletion request is a workflow that finishes. Your counsel defines the obligation and we build the system that meets it. ## What software development covers ### Web applications Applications built to be changed safely years after the original team has moved on. That means tests that mean something, seams where the business logic can move, and a deployment nobody is afraid of. ### Mobile applications iOS and Android, built as products rather than as ports. The maintenance story is decided at the start, while it is still cheap. ### APIs and integration The seams between systems, done once and properly. Most of the expensive failures we are called into are integration failures wearing another name. ### Data platforms The layer underneath the application, on Databricks, Azure, AWS or Google Cloud. If the reporting and the application disagree, the platform is the reason. ### Modernisation of what exists Often the work arrives as something already built that has become hard to change. We would rather read it and tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping than sell a rewrite you may not need. ### Durable, auditable workflows Processes that take days, call several systems and must never half-complete. Getting that right is a different discipline from getting a request handler right, and it is where we spend most of our time. ## Working with us from Arizona Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so from March to November we are on the same clock as you and from November to March we are an hour ahead. Either way the working day overlaps almost completely. Most delivery is remote or hybrid. We travel for discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build.