About
Killersoft is a small web development firm located in Fremont, California. It was founded by web developer and author Clay Loveless. The name Killersoft serves as a constant catalyst to continually develop applications of the highest quality from top to bottom. It also sounded better than “No Shortcuts.”
What Killersoft Does
Killersoft excels in implementing standards-based web sites around cutting-edge, highly scalable web applications.
Specifically, here’s what we’re focused on:
- PHP Application Development — Expertly crafted enterprise-grade PHP applications are our forté.
- Scalability Consulting — Conducting code reviews for existing applications to advise on how to take your site’s performance to the next level.
- Application Architecture — Help with getting web technology ventures off the ground and headed in the right direction, including recommendations on programming languages and open-source database engines.
- Consultation — Help with performance tuning, codebase migrations and off-the-shelf application modification. Training and seminars also performed.
- Publications — On any of the subjects related to modern web application development.
If you’re not sure if your needs are covered by the list above, just get in touch and let us know what you need.
About Clay Loveless
Clay Loveless is a web developer and author living in Northern California. He’s also the founder of Killersoft, a small web development firm.
An established expert in PHP and PEAR web application development, Clay has worked with America Online, Apple Computer, Qantas Airways, Top Cow Productions, Pheedo, Feedster and others.
Clay is the creator of Pearified.com, a web site and application dedicated to distributing a wide variety of web application components through the PEAR installer. Pearified.com also strives to educate developers on how they may achieve application distribution nirvana by way of PEAR packaging.
Since switching from Perl to PHP for web development in 1997, Clay hasn’t looked back. Clay now enjoys spreading the word about how to develop high-quality PHP applications, and contributes to a number of open source development efforts.

