Noto's Founding Team
Noto's founding team is a group of fun loving and ambitious technologists that all have one thing in common: they love their users! They work together in a cramped office in NYC.
AJ Ding, Cofounder and CEO
AJ grew up in Madison, NJ, and studied Statistics at Yale before spending five years in San Francisco working at big tech companies like Google and Meta. He now lives in New York City with his fiancée and their dog.
AJ started Noto because his parents were after-school educators (in tennis and piano), and he saw firsthand the lack of modern software in the space.
Steve Wang, Cofounder and CTO
Cory Zhou, Head of Business Operations
Cory grew up in Smithtown, Long Island and studied Statistics at Yale before moving to New York City, where he has lived for the past four years. Prior to joining Noto, Cory held a similar role at CourseDog, an administrative SaaS platform for higher education.
Outside of work, Cory is a fitness enthusiast and spends part of his free time working as a front desk admin at Solidcore.
Garcia Lopez-Paul, Founding Engineer
Garcia grew up in Westport, CT, and studied Computer Science at Princeton. He has lived in New York City for the past two years and, before joining Noto, worked as a software engineer at Amazon.
Garcia has years of experience in AI and ML research, was a varsity rower in college, and now enjoys hosting dinner parties for friends.
Mohit Dalal, Founding Engineer
Mohit grew up in Chandigarh, India, and studied Production Systems at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He recently moved to New York City from San Francisco, where he worked as a software engineer.
In college, Mohit built a custom 3D printer to prototype parts for his robotics projects—and he still enjoys tinkering with hardware when he’s not coding.
Viral Patel, Founding Designer + Tech Lead
Viral grew up in Toronto, studied Systems Design at the University of Waterloo, and just moved to NYC from Toronto!
Before Noto, he was a software engineer at Blockscope and self driving car company Nuro. After hours, Viral enjoys rock climbing and is a passionate high school robotics mentor.
Jackie Fu, Founding Designer
Jackie grew up in Houston, TX, studied at UT Austin, and has lived in NYC for the last five years. Before Noto, she was a design technologist at frog, a global design and strategy agency.
After hours, Jackie likes dabbling in various side quests such as: teaching her cats how to communicate with buttons, working at an archive fashion showroom, and crafting her own homewares.
Judy, Head of Sales
Judy grew up in San Francisco, studied philosophy at Oxford and now resides in NYC. Prior to Noto, Judy was a theoretical physicist at CERN, where she focused on symmetry breaking and the metaphysics of unobservable particles.
Outside of work, Judy is a dedicated amateur horologist, maintains a personal archive of Cold War propaganda, and is currently translating Beowulf into Esperanto.
