Drone flyback over snowy Cascades forest

Cory King

Product Leader & AI-Native Software Engineer

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.

Blue Taka

2024–Present

Founder & Technical Lead

Solo-built a fintech platform through AI pair programming60,000+ lines of production code. Built MCP servers and AI operational tooling for production, LLM-powered categorization, and reactive browser automation.

Costco Travel

2024–2025

Senior Product Owner (Contract)

Brought in to finish decade-long platform migration, scaling team from 8 to 30+ across three parallel workstreams and over 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 by 118%, drove P95 auth latency from 1000ms to 15ms. Indeed's first engineer-to-PM transition.

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 · GNURadio

Made contacts on all seven continents including Antarctica from a downtown high-rise using makeshift HF antennas dangling 90 feet down to the street.