Re-imagining mobile, web & IT.
Contra is a collaboration of top-tier industry professionals building customized, affordable solutions for today’s growing businesses. Custom mobile, web and IT aren’t just for big corporations anymore.
Are you working on something great?
We’d love to help make it happen.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. – Steve Jobs
Recent Posts
- Speaking to YourselfYou have a coding project. You focus on it and complete the work. You are about to move on to the next project when you remember to speak to your future self. What exactly does that mean? Speaking to your future self is a form of communication that assumes you don’t remember the precise detailsRead more
- Just what did make Facebook pay $19B for WhatsApp? Let’s look at the technology.The answer could be found, at least in part, in the features and functionality of a 25-year-old language originally developed for telcos – Erlang. The language, despite being eccentric – some have described as “weird” – is perfect for communication technology needing real-time behavior and can enable millions of parallel conversations to occur at the sameRead more
- Decisions are TemporaryShould a Web page be red themed or blue themed? Do we cache data? Do we use “px” or “em” for our page design? One of the fastest ways to stall out an initiative is to not make a decision. This is where some businesses get stuck and never deliver a quality product. Let’s runRead more
Services and Products
iOS Apps
Android Apps
Web Development
User Interface Design
Big Data Solutions
Business Incubator
Clients
We’ve worked with some of the best
Our Team
Chris PalmerFounder
Andy BondVP of Finance
Matt KrentzVP of Marketing
Brian TooneVP of Sales
Jon CarenzaApplication Architect
Michael WestbladeWeb Developer
We’ve assembled what we feel is one of the most diverse teams in the industry. While our founder spent over eleven years as an IT Architect at IBM, all of our professionals on staff have corporate experience in the Telecommunications, Aeronautical, Insurance and Legal industries and they’re home grown right here in Kansas City. We’re mostly math guys so we’ve spent countless hours adding up our combined experience in these different spaces but that’s old and boring website content. You don’t want to hear that. What we do think you want to hear is that we have unlimited technical solutions for your business. There isn’t a business process bottleneck that we haven’t seen and subsequently conquered. While we love writing mobile applications, we’re also not going to automatically tell you that’s what can fix your business issue. We’ll make sure the solution not only fits your business issue but also your budget.
The Lab
Here at Contra, we’ve put together what we think is one of the best labs in the business. While not large in scale, it has all the tech that’s needed in order to get our clients, as well as our own software ideas, a head start when it comes to the competition. Boasting two large collaborative benchings,IdeaPaint on 500 sf of lab wall, samsung smart tv’s and apple tv’s everywhere. We know you’re going to be impressed.
