Corey Ballou
Engineering Manager at former cto at unbanked
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolCorey Ballou is an engineering manager and former CTO with 16 years of experience building cloud-native, security-first fintech and crypto products from 0 to scale. He led Unbanked’s technical strategy and product roadmap, architecting whitelabel APIs, crypto-backed debit cards, custodial wallets, and digital banking rails that helped grow the company to $20M ARR. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and executive, he has deep hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, compliance automation, and launching regulated payment products across the US and EU. An early web entrepreneur and employee #1 at POP.co, Corey pairs startup grit with proven program management—shipping complex integrations like card programs and cross-border rails. He’s a practical web3 enthusiast who has also experimented with DeFi yield orchestration, reflecting a taste for novel integrations even when products evolve or sunset. Based in Charlotte, NC, he combines computer-science fundamentals with a track record of turning regulated fintech ideas into production-ready platforms.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Clarkson University
Stackoverflow
42,939reputation
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339answers
20questions
mysql
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offset
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oop
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zend-framework
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queue
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git
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Github Skills (200)
digitalocean-api10
javascript10
jquery10
constructor10
stack10
laravel10
queue10
oop10
inheritance10
stellar10
localhost10
horizon10
ngrok10
php10
data-structures10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cballou/SimpleSql
Dec 2012 - May 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 5 months
drop-inqueryingphpabstractspdo
dotco/Rebuilder
Sep 2012 - Feb 2014
Contributions:123 commits in 1 year 4 months
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