Corey Ballou

Custom web applications developer with over 9 years of professional experience working with clients of all sizes. I specialize in LAMP/LEMP stack development with frameworks such as Laravel, Kohana, Zend, Codeigniter, and Slim. I have led the development of dozens of projects, including several well known companies. I have a BS in Computer Science and dual minors in IT and BA. Co-organizer of the Queen City PHP meetup group in Charlotte, NC. I have built several startups from scratch, including 6 funded startups (two of which were acquired). Please ask for more information as I could go on for hours.

I have been doing backend development the entirety of my professional career. I am very familiar with MySQL, schema design, proper indexing, query analysis, and query optimization.

I have been doing frontend development the entirety of my professional career. I am highly familiar with jQuery and used to run the blog (now defunct) jqueryin.com.

I have been doing frontend development the entirety of my professional career. I am familiar with and use grunt for build processes.

I have been developing and delivering large scale Laravel applications for startups since late 2012. Below is a list of applications I'd be more than happy to discuss: * POP.co * Autosnap * MTG Futures * Stellar Vanity * Lumenaries * Gitty * Luna Projects nearing completion: * Portfolio.sh * Preschool.co