Cory King

Product leader and AI-native software engineer. I solo-founded an AI fintech startup, pair-programming with AI to ship 60,000+ lines of production code. Off the clock, I build spinning LED displays and rip custom-built racing drones through the mountains.

The toy chest

Small web tools. No login, nothing to install — they run right in the tab.

Gridlock Rush Hour / Unblock solver Screenshot the jam. It reads the board and drives the red car out — every move, in order. Kitchen Math Batch & dosing math, done precisely Scale a recipe to an exact amount per piece — weigh, melt, fill, and know what lands in every one. The math that keeps a batch consistent. Wordrack Word & crossword solver Feed it your rack and the blanks. It finds every word that fits — best plays first. Supercamera Live USB borescope viewer Plug the W400 inspection scope into a laptop and this page is its display — live picture, saved stills, rotate, fullscreen.

Films

Illustrated short films by Cory R. King, starring two park rats named Joe and Rattie.

3:30 Table Service“You gotta be friendly. Walk over, let him get a look at you.” Two park rats watch a pigeon get fed by hand. Her advice: be friendly. An illustrated short film by Cory R. King. Released September 2026, 4 cuts

All films and early experiments

Selected work

Two decades of products — most recently built one engineer deep, with AI.

Blue Taka

2024 — Present

Founder & Technical Lead

Solo-built a fintech platform through AI pair programming — 60,000+ lines of production code: MCP servers and AI operational tooling, LLM-powered categorization, and reactive browser automation.

Costco Travel

2024 — 2025

Senior Product Owner (Contract)

Brought in to finish a decade-long platform migration, scaling the team from 8 to 30+ across three parallel workstreams and 300+ work items powering a billion-dollar business.

Indeed

2015 — 2022

Senior Technical Product Manager

Built the Identity Platform team from scratch — 250M+ accounts, grew authenticated sessions 118%, and drove P95 auth latency from 1000ms to 15ms. Indeed's first engineer-to-PM transition.

After hours

Where the soldering iron and the antenna analyzer come out.

Spinning LED art display

ESP32 · FreeRTOS · custom hardware

Projects generative art into thin air — custom 3D-printed mechanics, AI-computed rotor balancing, and microsecond-precision real-time code at 2000+ RPM.

Amateur radio · N7CRK

HF · antenna design · GNU Radio

Worked all seven continents, Antarctica included, from a downtown high-rise — on makeshift HF antennas dangling 90 feet down to the street.