Cory La Nou
Co-Founder & Trainer at Gopher Guides
Cadott, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolCory La Nou is a seasoned full-stack technologist and serial founder with over two decades of experience building startups, training developers, and shipping production systems. As co-founder of Gopher Guides and a contributor to InfluxDB, he combines deep Go expertise—teaching beginning through distributed-systems workshops—with hands-on backend work on a widely used time-series database. He has founded multiple companies since the late 90s, led hundreds of projects through Digital Drywood, and co-authored Go Fundamentals, reflecting a rare blend of entrepreneurship, technical authorship, and curriculum design. An early organizer in the Go community (Denver Gophers and the first GopherCon), Cory mentors developers and local entrepreneurs, offering pro bono business and technical guidance beyond typical training roles. Based in rural Wisconsin, he brings practical, systems-level optimization experience (profiling, tracing, API improvements) and a track record of turning developer education into real-world product and business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSEET, Electronics, BSEET, Electronics at DeVryCadott
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Github Skills (12)
databases10
go10
influxdb10
back-end-development10
database10
json6
e-mail6
http6
html6
starttls6
exchange-server6
printf6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/influxdb
Dec 2014 - Apr 2017
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1257 commits, 542 PRs, 1090 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Cory primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the InfluxDB project. Their work involved modifying function signatures and removing `client.NodeID` in multiple files, including service and meta client files. They also made changes to testing files, indicating an involvement in improving and maintaining the codebase. These changes suggest the user was focused on improving internal APIs and optimizing the project's core functionalities.
real-time-analyticsscalablereactanalyticsevents
corylanou/tns-restful-json-api
Nov 2014 - Jan 2019
This is the code repository that goes along with the "TheNewStack" article for RESTful JSON API post
Contributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 years 3 months
apipost-apirestfulcode-repositoryrest-api
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