GOPHER GUIDES - Key Persons

Cory LaNou

Job Titles:
  • Technologist
  • Founder / Instructor - Specializes in Distributed Computing
Cory is a full stack technologist (except JavaScript, which he loathes) who has specialized in start-ups for the last 18 years. He was part of the Core engineering team of InfluxDB, a highly scalable, distributed time series database written in Go. Active in the international Go community, Cory has published several articles related to Go along with creating and leading Go workshops and training courses. While thinking globally, he acts locally by organizing several regional technology Meetups in the Midwest and mentoring new developers and aspiring entrepreneurs.

Mark Bates

Job Titles:
  • Web Developer
  • Founder / Instructor - Specializes in Web Development
Mark Bates is a full stack web developer with almost 20 years of experience building high quality scalable applications for companies such as Apple, USA Today, Klarna, and Palm. He has written three books, 'Distributed Programming with Ruby', 'Programming in CoffeeScript', and 'Conquering the Command Line'. Mark has spoken at conferences around the world, has led user groups such as Boston Ruby and Boston Golang, and has helped to organize conferences such as GothamGo and GopherCon.